Politics, as usual

I simply don’t know how to reconcile this with this. We’re supposed to believe that A) Biden was “the voice of reason”? and B) that the former head of the Center for a New American Security, Michele Flournoy, now the undersecretary for Defense – and administration point person for Afghanistan policy – is going to [...]

Sacramental Authority VI

Acts 1 relates some of the immediate aftermath of the resurrection of Christ. Jesus spent another sanctified 40 day period, this time not to seek solace or receive the ministry of angels, but to give comfort by his Presence, to “giv[e] commandments by the Holy Ghost,” and to eat with the apostles He had chosen. He [...]

Dr. Liccione’s Latest

Dr. Mike Liccione’s latest in his Development of Doctrine series is up at Philosophia Perennis. There are linked antecedents and supplements in the body of the text for those who have not been following the recent discussions of abduction, etc., on Dr. L’s personal site, Sacramentum Vitae and at Dr. Scott Carson’s An Examined Life, [...]

Elaboration

TF expressed (after asserting that I was confused) confusion about my previous post. This, while it probably won’t be exhaustive, will hopefully bring clarity to the situation.
Initially, TF asked a reasonable question: to whom may Catholics pray? Later on, he referred his readers to a thread on Mr. Swan’s site for context which may or may not have proven [...]

Is this deliberate?

After being called to account several times for obviously erroneous, misleading, or faulty information both here and elsewhere, and especially with his own penchant for demanding scrupulous adherence to the highest standards by his opponents (which, in and of itself is fine), Turretinfan’s latest post is dismaying, to say the least.
I have, needless to say, some [...]

Index for Sacramental Authority series

First post, second post, third post, fourth post, fifth post.

Sacramental Authority V

The acclamation we encountered in 1 Paralipomenon demands further treatment.
“1 Then all Israel gathered themselves to David in Hebron, saying: We are thy bone, and thy flesh. 2 Yesterday also, and the day before when Saul was king, thou wast he that leddest out and broughtest in Israel: for the Lord thy God said to [...]

Sacramental Authority IV: 2 22s

1 The burden of the valley of vision. What aileth thee also, that thou too art wholly gone up to the housetops? 2 Full of clamour, a populous city, a joyous city: thy slain are not slain by the sword, nor dead in battle. 3 All the princes are fled together, and are bound hard: [...]

Vatican Channel

I’m sure you’ve all heard about it. The new Youtube Vatican Channel has already broadcast some interesting, edifying, and pastoral material. Here’s a synopsis of the Pope’s latest Angelus message.