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The Catechism of Hockey–“Check” It Out!
It is a pleasure for the Bellarmine Forum to take part in this “blog tour” of an important new book just recently published! Readers of the Bellarmine Forum may know Alyssa Bormes as a woman whose life was changed through her reading of Humanae Vitae. Indeed, as she says, “Humanae Vitae changed my life!” She…
Footnote 56: Bread for the World
https://media.blubrry.com/bellarmineforumfootnote/bellarmineforum.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/BF-Footnote-56-Bread-for-the-World-110613-df.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadMany groups raising money to “fight poverty” are actually using contributions to hire lobbyists in Washington. Does this meet the “Truth in Advertising” standard?
Pope Francis: no disposable people
Thank God! I love this quote as it is nearly verbatim what I’ve said for years now! Human beings are themselves considered consumer goods to be used and then discarded. We have created a “disposable” culture which is now spreading. He’s right! He continues: It is no longer simply about exploitation and oppression, but something…
The Perfect Ecclesial Storm
by Fr. Mark Pilon The Holy See has sent out a survey or questionnaire on the topic for the next Synod of Bishops, the family, and the bishops have been instructed to give it the widest possible distribution. So some dioceses in Great Britain have already put it online, and dioceses everywhere will soon send…
How Anglicans (and Some Catholic Bishops) Think?
A brief news item today heralded the apocalyptic musings of the former Archbishop of Canterbury, George Carey. According to a FOX News Report, the former Anglican Archbishop, then second only to the Queen as Head of the Church of England, commented: “Christianity is just a ‘generation away from extinction’ in Britain unless churches have a breakthrough in…
The Feast of Christ the King (2013)
Today is the last Sunday of the liturgical year–The Feast of Christ, King of the Universe. In the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite today is celebrated the Last Sunday after Pentecost, Our Lord speaks of the end of time, of the need to beware of false Christs and false prophets, of the “abomination of desolation”…
Footnote 55: Home Schooling
https://media.blubrry.com/bellarmineforumfootnote/bellarmineforum.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/BF-Footnote-55-home-chooling-110613-df.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadThere’s more to homeschooling than content and curriculum: the habits homeschoolers learn are far different from those inculcated in public school students.
From Under the Rubble…Hope in the Rearview Mirror
The truth will make you free, but falsehood always brings violence in its wake Alexandr Solzhenitsyn Progressives disdain the past. They prefer to look to the future. They promise it will be better, if we but do what they tell us. That’s why they call it “progress.” They’re in charge, and they’re better than we…
Pope Paul VI Addresses JFK Assassination on TV
Pope Paul VI gave audience to American TV crews to give this address in response to the news that John F Keenedy had been shot and killed, “We are deeply bereaved by the tragic and sad news of the assassination of the President of the United States, John Fitzgerald Kennedy. and the grave wounding of…
Hanukah: Prequel to the Gospels
Ever wonder why Catholics insist on keeping the books of the Maccabees in her bibles while everyone else keeps throwing them out? It’s a pretty wild story, one far better than George Lucas could cook up! Never look at hanukkah the same after this muse by Major Frey.