Category: Pope Pius XI

The Cross divides because it demands a choice

by bcadmin | Nov 19, 2022 | Apostolic Fathers, Feast of Christ the King, Jesus Christ, News, Pope Pius XI, Quas Primas, St. Polycarp, the Cross, The Dispatch | 0 |

Readings: • 1 Sam 5:1-3 • Ps 122:1-2, 3-4, 4-5 • Col 1:12-20 • Lk 23:35-43 “Eighty and six years have I served Him, and He never did me any injury: how then can I […]

“The Children of Disobedience”: America and the Second Great Awakening

by bcadmin | Oct 30, 2022 | 19th-century United States, Alexis de Tocqueville, Catholicism, christianity, Enthusiasm, Fr. Ronald Knox, History, News, Pope Pius XI, second great awakening, Theosophy | 0 |

Progressives and forward-looking elites pride themselves on being or becoming “woke.” In common with other advocates of supposedly new and improved products and ideas, however, contempt for anything other than their own opinions often leads […]

Ask Your Husband is a superficial, ideological, and incoherent “guide”

by bcadmin | Mar 14, 2022 | Aristotle, Ask Your Husband, Books, Features, Genesis, husband, Marriage, News, Pope Pius XI, Pope St. John Paul II, Saint Paul, Stephanie Gordon, Tan Books, wife | 0 |

Reading Stephanie C. Gordon’s Ask Your Husband: A Catholic Guide to Femininity feels like a meandering stroll down a familiar lane. I was raised in conservative evangelicalism, and Gordon echoes many of the messages I […]

Extra, extra! News and tidings, February 8, 2022

by bcadmin | Feb 9, 2022 | Alice von Hildebrand, Black Catholics, Chicago, church vandalism, Dietrich von Hildebrand, freedom convoy, Joe Rogan, Martyrs, Mississippi, Neil Young, News, Pope Pius XI, roundup, sacred music, The Dispatch | 0 |

• The 26 Martyrs of Nagasaki: The air was electric with a holy silence, all Nagasaki dumb with grief, as the parade of martyrs marched past toward the hilltop where their crosses waited. The Galleon, […]

Is Jesus Your Lord and King?

by bcadmin | Nov 21, 2021 | Catholic Church, christ the king, Doctrine, Featured, God, Gospel, Into the Deep, Jesus Christ, King of Kings, Liturgy & Sacraments, Lord of lords, News, Pope Pius XI, priesthood, Quas Primas, Regnum Christi, Saints, Scripture, St. John the Evangelist, transcendentals, Truth | 0 |

Image: Stained glass window at the Melkite Catholic Annunciation Cathedral in Roslindale depicting Christ the King with the regalia of a Byzantine emperor. (January 2009 photo by John Stephen Dwyer [CC BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons) “Everyone who b…

Is Christ my King?

by bcadmin | Nov 19, 2021 | Between the Sundays, christ the king, Communism, fascism, government, King, kingship, Living the Faith, News, peace, Pope Pius XI, reign of Christ | 0 |

Image: Sacred Heart of Jesus (detail) by Chambers | via Restored Tradition A hundred years later, the problems have not changed. And neither has the solution. For those of us who call the United States of America our home, Christ the King might no…

Seeds Planted in Afghanistan

by bcadmin | Oct 2, 2021 | 2021, Barnabite Father Giovanni Scalese, Catholic Church, Catholicism, Clerics Regular of St. Paul, Columns, end of the war in Afghanistan, Fr. Egidio Caspani, God, Holy Spirit, Ines A. Murzaku's Seeds Planted in Afghanistan, Jesus Christ, Missionaries of Charity Mother Teresa, News, Pakistani Sister Bhatti St. Shahnaz of the Congregation of Saint Jeanne-Antide Thouret, Pope Pius XI, Pro Bambini of Kabul, St. John Henry Newman, The Catholic Thing | 0 |

Ines A. Murzaku: We’ve had saintly examples of Catholic witness among Muslims before, and the results in Afghanistan may someday surprise us.

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How Homosexuality Harms the Church

by bcadmin | Oct 1, 2021 | 2021, America's bishops, Catholic Church, Catholicism, Columns, David Carlin, denounced Communism (Divini Redemptoris), Fr. James Martin S.J., How Homosexuality Harms the Church, Nazism (Mit brennender Sorge), News, Pope Francis, Pope Pius XI, The Catholic Thing, USCCB | 0 |

David Carlin wants a papal re-statement of Church teaching on homosexuality but doubts it will happen, or that America’s bishops will do so.

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Accepting the Rule of Christ

by bcadmin | Nov 20, 2020 | Between the Sundays, christ the king, Evil, Feast, Feast of Christ the King, Featured, holiness, judgment, Kingdom of God, kingship, Living the Faith, News, Pope Pius XI, Quas Primas, Ubi arcano Dei consilio | 0 |

“Does He reign over my mind, will, and heart?” For those of us who call the United States of America our home, Christ the King might not be the image of Jesus that resonates with us the most. We have been raised on stories of the Ame…

Like a century ago, a papal encyclical tries to shed light on a dark time

by bcadmin | Oct 4, 2020 | aggression, Assisi, Fratelli Tutti, lead, National Socialism, neoliberalism, News, News Analysis, Pope Francis, Pope Pius XI, Populism, Quadragesimo anno | 0 |

Parallels between Pope Francis’s new encyclical, Fratelli Tutti, and Pop Pius XI’s warnings in the 1930s about a looming global conflagration are striking indeed.

Infallibility: The Unopened Gift

by bcadmin | Aug 13, 2020 | 1870, 1994 apostolic letter Ordinatio Sacerdotalis, 2020, Casti Connubii, Catholic Church, Catholicism, Columns, Dogmatic Constitution Pastor Aeternus, First Vatican Council, Gerald Kelly S.J., Infallibility: The Unopened Gift, John Ford S.J., July 18, News, Pope Pius IX, Pope Pius XI, Pope St. John Paul II, Russell Shaw, section 25 of Lumen Gentium, The Catholic Thing, Vatican I | 0 |

Russell Shaw: Popes retain their right to make infallible pronouncements, but there is little danger the Church will ever become an infallibility factory.

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Sacred Heart of Jesus, Thy Kingdom Come

by bcadmin | Jun 19, 2020 | Antifa, Catholic Living, Featured, News, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Pope Leo XIII, Pope Pius XI, Pope Pius XII, Sacred Heart, Weekly Headlines | 0 |

“Waiting for the Barbarians,” Constantine Cavafy’s poem about civilizational collapse, describes a geriatric Rome so desiccated and demoralized that it is almost entirely without hope. It has roused itself on one failing elbow to grasp at a last chance for regeneration—the barbarian hordes rumored to be approaching, doubtless to sack and burn, but perhaps also […]