The Death Penalty: Should It Be Abolished?
Background On August 2 of this year, Pope Francis announced he will revise the teaching on the Death Penalty in the post-conciliar Catechism of the Catholic Church. And indeed the new Catechism did...
View ArticleThe First Lie: The Foundation of Original Sin
Introduction This article is about truth. Truth has taken a severe beating over the past five decades. The failure to give truth its rightful recognition has been a costly abomination. Billions of...
View ArticleTeaching Your Unruly Child to Think Straight
Children who violate the fourth commandment — honor thy father and mother — think differently than those who are well-behaved. Recalcitrant children believe that the fulfillment of their needs should...
View ArticleThe Election of Donald Trump: Could This Be Our Last Chance?
On November 8, 2016, much to the surprise of the politicians and those who support them, Donald Trump was elected to be the next president of the United States. Throughout the presidential campaign,...
View ArticleReflections on the Year to Come
Time is a most important gift given to us by Our Lord. The use of time, in the way that Our Lord intended, will lead to eternal happiness with Him in Heaven. This, He has promised to us on numerous …...
View ArticlePentecost: Releasing the Power of the Holy Spirit
Our Lord, Jesus Christ, knew that His disciples would experience great sorrow — “Amen, amen, I say to you, that you shall weep and lament…” — when He ascended into heaven, leaving them behind to “Go...
View ArticleFollowing Louis XVI King of France into Annihilation
It was on October 13, 1917, one hundred years ago, that the Miracle of the Sun was witnessed by 70,000 people at Fatima. Many of these witnesses were naysayers, atheists, and Catholic haters. They had...
View ArticleBeware of Ravenous Wolves
Preface The Election of Donald Trump: Could This Be Our Last Chance? This article was published on December 23, 2016 (Saint Benedict Center; On-line Journal; Richmond, N.H.), shortly after Donald...
View ArticlePresumption: The ‘I Am a Good Person’ Sin
The Way We Were Presumption is a sin that has become increasingly more common over the past fifty years. Before Vatican II, Catholics were taught to have a healthy fear of God and being judged by Him....
View ArticleWar and the Rumors of War
Introduction It has been twenty years since I stopped going to the Novus Ordo Mass and returned to the immutable Faith and the traditional Catholic Latin Mass. Like other cohorts of my generation,...
View ArticleThe Death Penalty: Should It Be Abolished?
Background On August 2 of this year, Pope Francis announced he will revise the teaching on the Death Penalty in the post-conciliar Catechism of the Catholic Church. And indeed the new Catechism did...
View ArticleThe First Lie: The Foundation of Original Sin
Introduction This article is about truth. Truth has taken a severe beating over the past five decades. The failure to give truth its rightful recognition has been a costly abomination. Billions of...
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