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Abortion: The Deceit of the Century

21st January 2020 by James M Bourke

James M Bourke reflects on his new book and explains what motivated him to write a book about the obscenity of abortion. Reflections on the Abortion Issue in Ireland:My monograph, Reflections on the Abortion Issue in Ireland was launched in Limerick on 23rd November, 2019 at the Annual Conference of the Catholic Voice newspaper. It consists of 12 critical essays which tell the story of how abortion was legalised in Ireland. It is not a very edifying story. In fact, … Read More

Catholic Church | Islam

Islam and Abbé Guy Pagès – the Path Ahead

21st January 2020 by Anne Keeling

How many Muslims have you converted? In answer to my question “How many Muslims have you converted?” Abbé Guy Pagès replies, “Only God knows.” The reality, according to one reliable source, is that he has converted some two hundred or more so far. Abbé Guy Pagès is a priest of the diocese of Paris, having lived and evangelised in the Islamic Republic of Djibouti. An expert on Christian-Muslim affairs he has written several books. His most recent one is called … Read More

Catholic Church | Catholic Education | Marriage & Family

The Supernatural Outlook and NFP

21st December 2019 by secretary

One of the things I have noticed as I live my life and observe what is going on in the world is that so many Catholics seem to have lost or do not give enough emphasis to, the supernatural life. We are created to live eternally with our Father in Heaven. This supernatural outlook should influence how we live our lives and how we view this sad world we live in with all its troubles and complications. I was reminded … Read More

Catholic Church | Liturgy

Cardinal Burke’s Sermon for Last Sunday after Pentecost – Limerick November 2019

21st December 2019 by Raymond Leo Cardinal Burke

SERMON In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Amen. In today’s Epistle, Saint Paul writes to the early Christians at Colossae, thanking God for the good fruits of his apostolic ministry in their midst. Nearing the end of his earthly life, Saint Paul was taking account of his ministry, in accord with its just measure: eternal life. In fact, a few verses later, in the same first chapter of the Epistle to … Read More

Catholic Church | Liturgy

Te Deum Laudamus: Thank God!

21st December 2019 by Canon Wulfran Lebocq

On 31st December, the Church gives to all the faithful the possibility of gaining a plenary indulgence. Just as the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass is offered for four ends (adoration, thanksgiving, atonement and petition), one of the aspects of either public or private prayer is thanksgiving. On the last day of the year, the Church encourages her children to give thanks to Almighty God, according to the words of St Paul: “Give thanks upon all occasions; this is what … Read More

Catholic Church | Resistance Movement

How to survive the Age of Endarkenment without Eating your Dog

21st December 2019 by Viscount Christopher Monckton

The Pope, abandoning even the slightest pretence at the political impartiality that his office demands, has come dangerously, culpably close to comparing President Trump with King Herod, who was responsible for the Massacre of the Innocents. The Jesuit house journal La Civiltà Cattolica describes itself as “reflecting the mind of the Vatican since 1850”. Last week, in that august if somewhat self-satisfied journal, Fr. Antonio Spadaro SJ reported the Pope as uttering the following words at a meeting with the … Read More

Catholic Education | Resistance Movement

RSE an Attack on Religious Vocations

6th December 2019 by secretary

“Know also this, that, in the last days, shall come dangerous times. Men shall be lovers of themselves, covetous, haughty, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, wicked, Without affection, without peace, slanderers, incontinent, unmerciful, without kindness, Traitors, stubborn, puffed up, and lovers of pleasures more than of God: Having an appearance indeed of godliness, but denying the power thereof. Now these avoid. For of these sort are they who creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, … Read More

Catholic Church

Keeping the Faith

6th December 2019 by Raymond Leo Cardinal Burke

The Way of Healing Reform of the Church for the Salvation of the World: Introduction:It pleases me very much to participate in the annual Catholic Voice Conference on the occasion of the 10th Anniversary of the publication of Catholic Voice. Catholic Voice has been a particularly faithful and efficacious agent of a new evangelization, of a new presentation of the Catholic faith, in an age of ever greater secularization. Through publications and conferences, like the annual conference, Catholic Voice provides … Read More

Catholic Church | LGBT activism

Problems Continue at Maynooth Seminary

6th December 2019 by James McCaffrey

Failure to recognise the roots of past scandals means Church teaching will continue to be undermined It did not take very long at all for scandal to rear its ugly head once again in our National Seminary, St. Patrick’s College, Maynooth. Hitting the headlines in summer 2016 on account of a homosexual subculture within the seminary community, with some seminarians having profiles on a gay dating app, prompting the Archbishop of Dublin to move his seminarians to Rome, now two … Read More

Catholic Church | Liturgy

On Advent and Its Six Circumstances

3rd December 2019 by St Bernard Of Clairvaux

Today we celebrate the beginning of Advent. The name of this great annual commemoration is sufficiently familiar to us; its meaning may not be so well known. When the unhappy children of Eve had abandoned the pursuit of things true and salutary, they gave themselves up to the search for those that are fleeting and perishable. To whom shall we liken the men of this generation, or to what shall we compare them, seeing they are unable to tear themselves … Read More

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