Thursday, April 26, 2012

Saturday, April 21, 2012

Liberalism

The liberal's main goal in life is to annoy his neighbors.

Sunday, April 15, 2012

Abp Chaput

“Instead of Catholics converting the culture, the culture too often bleached out the apostolic zeal in Catholics while leaving the brand label intact.”

Kolakovski

L.K.'s "The Law of the Infinite Cornucopia asserts that, for any given doctrine one wants to believe, there is never a shortage of arguments by which one can support it".

Wednesday, April 11, 2012

Watergate

Woodward and Bernstein were glorified stenographers.

Tuesday, April 10, 2012

USCCB

“The future Benedict XVI told me that among the unforeseen and contradictory effects of Vatican-II was the diminution in the importance of bishops, which on the contrary, the Council wished to re-emphasize. In fact, however, the autonomy and the freedom itself of a bishop over his own diocese were caged in and co-opted by the establishment of national bishops’ conferences. These conferences, Ratzinger pointed out, have no theological basis; they are not part of the Church structure as are parishes, dioceses and the papacy. They are simply institutions, of recent origin, which were created for practical reasons but which have gradually created a weighty structure of their own, becoming in effect ‘little Vaticans.’”

Reform Judaism

An old joke about Reform Judaism had it that the movement's concept of the faith was merely the Democratic Party Platform with holidays thrown in.

Abp. Chaput

“Instead of Catholics converting the culture, the culture too often bleached out the apostolic zeal in Catholics while leaving the brand label intact.”

Sunday, April 8, 2012

The Left

America, meet Laurie Penny, described by New York magazine as “one of those Leftie-types who are so sanctimonious they make you want to vote Republican out of sheer spite”.

Tuesday, April 3, 2012

Abp Sheen

Abp. Fulton Sheen:

Minds no longer object to the Church, because of the way they think, but because of the way they live. They no have difficulty with the Creed, but with her Commandments; they remain outside her saving waters, not because they cannot accept the doctrine of Three Persons in One God, but because they cannot accept the moral of two persons in one flesh; not because Infallibility is too complex, but because the veto on Birth Control is too hard; not because the Eucharist is too sublime, but because Penance is too exacting. Briefly, the heresy of our day is not the heresy of thought; it is the heresy of action.

Sunday, April 1, 2012

Bishops, unworthy

Guy [of Pomposa] finally handed off the administrative elements of his position to concentrate on spiritual direction. He periodically retreated to a hermitage near Ferrara to spend his days in prayer and fasting. Near the end of his life he was unjustly persecuted for personal reasons by archbishop Heribert of Ravenna.