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From Under the Rubble…Father Time
“The Holy Father lives in Rome, Why won’t Daddy live at home?” Welfare Lullaby It’s been a great year for the Holy Father. But a lot of fathers haven’t been so lucky. Or so holy. “In 1960, fewer than one in 10 children lived in a single-parent home,” writes Dr. Patrick Fagan, one of…
Footnote 60: Dissidents
https://media.blubrry.com/bellarmineforumfootnote/bellarmineforum.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/BF-Footnote-60-dissidents-120713-df.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadDissident Catholics are a curious bunch. They reject the teaching authority of the Church, they can’t say the Creed honestly, and yet they insist on calling themselves “Catholic” and demand that the Church change its teachings to accommodate them. Can you figure them out?
From Under the Rubble…Cardinals, Ducks, and Quacks
It’s that time of year again, and the Secular City is raising Hell. But Hell doesn’t exist, remember? Well, it does when it comes in handy. Now the Thought Police want to throw the New Testament into the Saint Stephen’s Day bonfire of outmoded inanities. Last summer, the party bosses in Secular City branded “Who…
Who is this Savior Born of Mary?
Christmas is wrought with contradictions and hope. I love it. I always have to wonder just Who people think Jesus is and what His Incarnation means for us today, though. Besought with an authoritarian government, the encroachment of Marxist demoralization, and myriads of distractions foisted on us by the mass media, it is difficult sometimes…
Magazine – Vatican II: Cause for Hope
Make a New Year’s resolution that counts! Get this last issue of the Bellarmine Forum Magazine’s Vatican II volume — packed with punches against those who would misconstrue Vatican II! You’ll be a prize fighter for Mother Church in no time! The Council: A Distant Memory… So much has been lost. For some, the Second Vatican…
Prayers Requested for Frank Morriss
Our dear friend and Board Member Frank Morriss was hospitalized last week and is in the ICU. Frank, a WWII vet who will be 90 in March, wrote for years for The Wanderer, was a founding editor of Twin Circle and the Catholic Register in Denver. He co-edited our Forum Focus since 1985. Most recently he contributed…
Merry Christmas!
Venite adoremus! Merry Christmas from the Bellarmine Forum! ———– The Christmas Mass at Dawn, December 25, 2013, will be offered for all of our supporters, benefactors, and friends at the altar over the corpus of St. Robert Bellarmine at the Chiesa San Ignazio in Rome. Mass will be celebrated by our dear friend Father Kevin…
Footnote 59: CRS
https://media.blubrry.com/bellarmineforumfootnote/bellarmineforum.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/BF-Footnote-59-CRS-120713-df.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadThe relationship between the Church’s charities and the federal government is not often discussed in fundraising campaigns of groups like Catholic Relief Services. Is that a good idea?
