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by bcadmin | Sep 25, 2022 | American, Capitalism, Features, Fr. Edward McGlynn, Henry George, History, liberalism, modernism, News, Pope Leo XIII, Rerum Novarum, Social Doctrine, socialism | 0 |
Pope Leo XIII’s 1891 encyclical, Rerum Novarum, while not the first social encyclical, was still a revolutionary document, albeit within the bounds of natural law and the Magisterium. Previous social encyclicals, beginning with Mirari Vos […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Sep 7, 2022 | Booklet of Kabbalistic Forms, Cardinal José Tolentino de Mendonça, Featured, News, Pope Leo XIII, Pope Nicholas V, U.S. & World News, Vatican Library, Vatican Library Review, Visual Kabbalah | 0 |
The Vatican Library, one of the world’s oldest libraries, has launched a new scholarly journal to help promote high-quality research, dialogue across cultures and sharing knowledge related to the library’s holdings, said Cardinal José Tolentino de Mendonca, Vatican librarian and archivist.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 25, 2022 | Alexis de Tocqueville, Capitalism, Catholic social teaching, distributism, Economics, Edward McGlynn, Essay, Features, G.K. Chesterton, Gregory XVI, Henry George, Hilaire Belloc, History, Mirari Vos, modernism, Mortimer Adler, News, Pope Leo XIII, Rerum Novarum, socialism, Vatican I, Vincenzo Gioacchino Raffaele Luigi Pecci | 0 |
From the pontificate of Gregory XVI down to the present day, there has been an ongoing crisis precipitated by the advent of the “New Things” (rerum novarum) of socialism and modernism. Since 1832 and the […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jul 20, 2022 | American Catholics, Americanism, Archbishop Joseph Naumann, lead, News, News Analysis, Pope Francis, Pope John Paul II, Pope Leo XIII | 0 |
When Leo XIII condemned a cocktail of modernist propositions he called “Americanism” in 1899, for example, the very same thing was said – the pope doesn’t understand us and is getting terrible advice, leading him astray.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jul 4, 2022 | American Revolution, Catholicism, Columns, Features, Fourth of July, French Revolution, Hobbes, independence, Locke, News, Pope Leo XIII, Rousseau, The Past Present | 0 |
July is the first full month of summer, a time for lazy hazy days of going on vacation, cooling off, doing nothing. For historians, it is the month when things really start to heat up, […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jun 25, 2022 | Beauty, Belloc, Chesterton, Comment, conversion, Lincoln, News, Opinion & Features, Pope Leo XIII | 0 |
The Catholic Faith closely reflects a Gothic cathedral; it’s not a simple thing. And, in the same vein a great cathedral is built, none of this happened overnight
The post Discovering the Gothic foundations of Faith appeared first on Catholic Herald.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jun 18, 2022 | Columns, Fatherhood, Features, News, Pope Leo XIII, St. Joseph, St. Pope John Paul II, The Past Present, traditional family | 0 |
I recently received an e-mail with the curious subject line: “Men are like water heaters”. I opened up the e-mail to find a picture of a confused-looking, middle-aged man struggling to fix a water heater […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 28, 2022 | Blessed Virgin Mary, Holy Rosary, Jesus Christ, Marian devotion, News, Pope Leo XIII, St. John Henry Newman, St. Louis de Montfort, The Dispatch, Total Consecration | 0 |
Editor’s note: The following homily was preached for the memorial of St. Louis Grignion de Montfort (April 28, 2022) at the Church of the Holy Innocents in New York City. Today the Church holds up […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Feb 9, 2022 | Commentary, common good, News, Pope Leo XIII | 0 |
In 1891, Pope Leo XIII articulated his vision of Catholic social teaching impacting the affairs of our world. Like Jesus, who entered the world among the poor and outcasts, Catholic social teaching endeavors to speak to the lives of people who struggle with the real and messy issues of life.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Nov 26, 2021 | Advent, Christmas, Epiphany, Eucharist, Lent, News, Parousia, Pope Benedict XVI, Pope Leo XIII, Saint Paul, St. Cyril of Jerusalem, The Dispatch | 0 |
Readings: • Jer 33:14-16 • Ps 25:4-5, 8-9, 10, 14 • 1 Thes 3:12-4:2 • Lk 21:25-28, 34-36 “We preach not one advent only of Christ,” wrote St. Cyril of Jerusalem in the fourth century, […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 27, 2021 | 2021, America's founding principles, Aristotle, Boethius, Cicero, Columns, Dabney Carr, domestic happiness, Leo XIII's Rerum Novarum, life liberty and property, Michael Pakaluk, News, Pope Leo XIII, Samian sage, The Catholic Thing, The Pursuit of Happiness, Thomas Jefferson | 0 |
Michael Pakaluk: “Happiness” is an essentially contested idea, but we’re far from able to peremptorily declare the Founders misguided.
The post The Pursuit of Happiness appeared first on The Catholic Thing.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Sep 29, 2021 | 2 Cor 4:4, 2021, antiquity, Catholic Church, Catholicism, catholicity, Columns, exogeneity, Feast of St. Michael Archangel 2021, John Paul II, Michael Pakaluk, Michael Pakaluk's "Who is Like God?", Mont-Saint-Michel, Mount Gargano Italy, News, Pope Leo XIII, Pope Leo XIII and the Prayer to St. Michael by Kevin Symonds, shrine of St. Michael in Monte Sant’ Angelo, The Catholic Thing, urgency | 0 |
Michael Pakaluk on St. Michael: Four important marks define devotion to the Archangel: antiquity, exogeneity, catholicity, and urgency.
The post Who is Like God? appeared first on The Catholic Thing.
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