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Baltimore, Dr. Barber, and ‘Character Is Conduct’…
Baltimore, Dr. Barber, and ‘character is conduct’ Skip to content Pillar subscribers can listen to this Pillar Post here: The Pillar TL;DR Hey everybody, Greetings from Baltimore, where the fall plenary meeting of the U.S. bishops; conference is in full swing. Baltimore’s Inner Harbor. The bishops have been meeting in committees, and will begin today their public sessions, with a few things of not...
St. Michael Prayer: A Better Translation?
The Romans, as any first-year Latin student can tell you, were in the practice of ending their sentences with verbs. Regina agricolam amat, for example—literally, “The queen the farmer loves.” Unless you are Yoda, however, you would speak this sentence in English this way: “The queen loves the farmer.” (Something tells me this relationship is not going to work out.) In any case, Latin word or...
What happens to God if Marvel chooses to ‘repent’?
If you are into superhero epics — I will confess some interest in Iron Man and Captain America — then you know that the creators (small “c”) of the Marvel Cinematic Universe have been struggling for several years now. Many are convinced that they caught a bad case of what that Elon Musk guy calls the “woke mind virus.” Some critics point to a more specific problem — an obsession with a “strong fem...
What Does a Catholic Reading of the Bible Tell Us About the Antichrist?
By Clement Harrold November 8, 2024 We know remarkably little about who the Antichrist will be and what his arrival on the earth will look like. The very word antichrist only appears in four verses of Scripture, all of them in the Johannine epistles: 1 John 2:18, 1 John 2:22, 1 John 4:3, and 2 John 7. The author of these epistles clearly expects his readers to already have some background knowledg...
The Butcher and His Fiend-Like Queen…
Two blood covered hands were raised up in the dim light as Macbeth walked unsteadily from the chambers of Duncan. “This is a sorry sight,” he says to his wife. A few minutes later, after discussion and debate, Lady Macbeth goes into the chamber and then also emerges, having placed the bloody daggers in the hands of King Duncan’s guards. “My hands are of your colour; but I shame, To wear a heart so...
Anglican Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby Resigns Over Handling of John Smyth Sex Abuse Scandal…
LONDON (AP) — Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby, head of the Church of England and spiritual leader of the global Anglican Communion, resigned Tuesday after an investigation found that he failed to tell police about serial physical and sexual abuse by a volunteer at Christian summer camps as soon as he became aware of it. Pressure on Welby had been building since Thursday, when the archbishop’...
Video of Former LGBTQ Activist
Video of Former LGBTQ Activist Rosaria Butterfield [embedded content] This Video was produced by DECIDE NOW.com “You will know the truth and the truth will set you free.” Our youth are being destroyed by the deception of our day. Kids are consuming content more graphic and sadistic, at younger ages, than ever before. But our message is clear. Only Jesus can save and set us free. Book by Rosaria Bu...
Pope’s Sunday Angelus: ‘Offer Tenderness and Steer Clear of Hypocrisy’…
Angelus Angelus Dómini nuntiávit Mariæ.Et concépit de Spíritu Sancto.Ave Maria… Ecce ancílla Dómini.Fiat mihi secúndum verbum tuum.Ave Maria… Et Verbum caro factum est.Et habitávit in nobis.Ave Maria… Ora pro nobis, sancta Dei génetrix.Ut digni efficiámur promissiónibus Christi. Orémus.Grátiam tuam, quǽsumus, Dómine,méntibus nostris infunde;ut qui, Ángelo nuntiánte, Christi Fílii...
John Paul II: Communism fell because people under its yoke took ‘the risk of freedom’…
Thirty-five years ago, the son of a great historian helped make history when he asked the question that triggered the demolition of the most grotesquely expressive artifact of the Cold War. My friend Daniel Johnson, son of the author of Modern Times and then a reporter for London’s Daily Telegraph, flew to Berlin on November 9, 1989. East Germans were engaging in mass protests against their oppres...
How you can get a plenary indulgence by praying for the faithful departed this week…
By Jennifer Gregory Miller ( bio – articles – email ) | Oct 31, 2023 | In The Liturgical Year One of my favorite traditions during the Liturgical Year is remembering and praying for the faithful departed during November, particularly through November 1-8. While we can pray every day for those who have died, the Church gives us a special gift that can really unite us with our departed b...
What Hath Commonweal Wrought? Catholic Lay Opinion Journalism 100 Years Later…
By Peter Wolfgang ( bio – articles – email ) | Nov 02, 2024 Commonweal Magazine turned 100 years old this year! Can you believe it? Do you care? I don’t blame you if you don’t care. Those of us who read (or write for) Catholic Culture are not exactly Commonweal’s target audience. As the New York Times writes in its laudatory piece on Commonweal’s centennial: Commonweal Catholics were e...
If He Only Had a Heart: Tesla’s Tin Man and the Love of Christ…
The Optimus robot may walk, but only in Jesus can we follow the narrow road to our true home. Tesla has released the prototype of Optimus (also known as the Tesla Bot). According to its website, this robot is “a general purpose, bi-pedal, autonomous humanoid robot capable of performing unsafe, repetitive or boring tasks.” Taking in the mail, doing the dishes, folding laundry and countless other ta...
