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by bcadmin | Sep 16, 2022 | atheism, Book Review, Featured, News, Social Kingship of Christ, Sophia Excerpts, the Enlightenment | 0 |
Atheism is the zeitgeist of our times and the default state of the average citizen. According to a 2022 study, roughly 50% of the populations of most Western countries identify as atheist or its noncommittal cousin, “agnostic.” The world has fallen so far that any religious activity whatsoever is an aberration, nevermind strict adherence to […]
by bcadmin | Apr 22, 2022 | Apologetics & Education, Featured, History, News, Sophia Excerpts, the Enlightenment | 0 |
By May 1778, Voltaire was dying. The Enlightener received a dignified and modest letter from a priest, the Abbé Gaultier, who was a Jesuit before the suppression. It seemed there was always a Jesuit about Voltaire, a biographer remarked, from his earliest school days to playing chess at Ferney. “When Voltaire heard the word ‘Jesuit’ […]
by bcadmin | Sep 24, 2021 | Columns, Dignitatis Humanae, Features, Jean Danielou, John Courtney Murray, News, Politics, Prayer, Religious Freedom, the Enlightenment, The Past Present | 0 |
In 1965, the Church finally made peace with modern politics through Dignitatis Humanae, the Second Vatican Council’s statement on religious freedom. The meaning of religious freedom and the nature of Catholic politics within a pluralist […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 15, 2021 | Evangelization, existentialism, News, nihilism, relativism, The Dispatch, the Enlightenment, Vatican II | 0 |
Fewer Catholics are attending Mass. Fewer Catholics accept the Church’s teaching about the Eucharist, about the sanctity of unborn life, about the Christian’s responsibility to the poor and suffering, about marriage, about Jesus as the […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Nov 12, 2020 | Featured, French Revolution, Martyrs, Martyrs of Compiègne, News, Saints, Sophia Excerpts, the Enlightenment | 0 |
After her election as Carmelite prioress in 1786, thirty-four-year-old Mother Teresa of St. Augustine learned of a mysterious document in the monastery’s archive, dated from the previous century. It recorded the strange mystical dream of a partially paralyzed young woman who had lived at the Compiègne monastery for years as a paying guest. In 1694, […]
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