In this issue we return to the debate over the use of the vaccine with an article by John Lacken responding to the article written by Professor Roberto de Mattei. In this article John makes some good arguments which are difficult to refute, he also calls for the debate to be conducted with charity. There are many people who do not want to take the vaccine for a variety of reasons and their freedom to make this decision must be … Read More
(This article is available to download here as it appeared in Catholic Voice. Please feel free to print and share) Are Catholics Obliged To Take Covid-19 Vaccines Regardless Of Their Origins? In what has now become a trademark for my articles can I please ask you yet again to pray for our Irish bishops. The laity have begun the year without access to the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass and our bishops seem to suggest that the answer to this … Read More
(This article is available to download here as it appeared in Catholic Voice. Please feel free to print and share) What is Truth? This is a fundamental question, perhaps ‘the’ fundamental question. If we get the answer to this question wrong, then we will live our lives according to lies and untruths. When Pontius Pilate asks this question, Truth is standing before him in the person of Jesus Christ, the second person of the Holy Trinity. “Jesus said to him, … Read More
We must pray for our governments. Though the International Health Regulations require notification of any new pathogen to the international community within 24 hours, China’s concealment of its virus’ person-to-person transmission for three fatal months from mid-October 2019 to 20 January 2020 prevented most governments from taking the initial precautions that could have spared very nearly all of the half million and counting who have died in consequence of the pandemic. That said, it is time for the Church to … Read More
There are four main ways that people have been used to getting their copy of Catholic Voice newspaper. They could pick up a copy in their local Catholic Church or Newsagent; they could order a 6 or 12 monthly subscription and receive Catholic Voice in the post; or else they got a copy from a friend or other supporter who acted as a mini-distributer of Catholic Voice. Due to the covid-19 situation, many of our Catholic Churches are closed and … Read More
The question “Is the Pope a Catholic?” used to be a way of affirming the truth of a statement whose veracity had been challenged. Not any more. In a rambling interview in the British far-out-Left Catholic magazine The Tablet, Pope Francis was asked whether the widespread economic damage from the Chinese Communist virus provided an opportunity for “ecological conversion”. The Tablet is nothing like as keen on Christian conversion as it is on “ecological conversion”, whatever that may be. Here … Read More
In ancient Greek, the Great Commandment that is the entire purpose and justification of the Christian religion is encapsulated in a single word. In Latin, it is also a single word. In English, it is three words. In Greek, agapeseis. In Latin, diliges. In English, thou shalt love. Never did that Great Commandment matter more than now, when a failure of love on the part of the grim, Communist regime in China encouraged the worldwide transmission of the coronavirus. A … Read More
