Bellarmine Forum Podcasts
Footnote 39: an interview with Father Linus Clovis
Besides allegedly funding the Syrian rebels and providing them with the bombs that are destroying Catholic and Orthodox churches in Syria, your tax dollars are used to aggressively push an anti-life agenda in the Third World. Hear direct reports from Fr. Peter Clovis.
Footnote 38: Upside Down Catholics
Upside Down Catholics: Isn’t it curious that many Catholics who insist that the Church adopt their left-wing political agenda are the same dissidents who refuse to embrace the Church’s magisterial teachings?
Footnote 37: Negotiating With the Church
Negotiating With The Church: When people challenge the magisterial teachings of the Church and offer views that are diametrically opposed, should the Church meet them halfway in the spirit of “Consensus”?
Footnote 36: The Death of the Common Good
The Death Of The Common Good: Has diversity destroyed the sense of community and legitimate authority that, the Church teaches, is required for civic life?
Footnote 35: Benedict’s Motu Proprio (Round Two)
Benedict’s Motu Proprio, Round Two: With Pope Benedict’s new addition to Canon Law, will the Catholic Church in the U.S. have to stop taking billions a year from the federal government?
Footnote 34: Benedict’s Motu Proprio (first of two)
As he was preparing to leave office, Pope Benedict XVI promulgated a critical clarification of Canon Law regarding how the Church conducts Catholic charities of all kinds. The local bishop, not the national conferences, should be the point man, he says, and they must implement many common-sense rules that a lot of Catholic institutions are not going to like – at all.
Footnote 33: MSNBC Children belong to state
In Footnote 33, Chris Manion observes that a whacko feminist recently insisted that children belong to the state, not to God or their parents. She thought she was being very avante-garde. Was she right? Far from it: it’s an old canard whose history deserves our attention.
Footnote 32: Cardinal Burke on Humanae Vitae
https://media.blubrry.com/bellarmineforumfootnote/bellarmineforum.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Footnote-32-Cardinal-Burke-HV-043013.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadThe Bellarmine Forum’s Campaign for Humanae Vitae™ got a big boost in April, as Raymond Cardinal Burke urged the laity to encourage our priests and bishops to teach the truths of the faith in their dioceses. Waiting for national bishops’ conferences and their bureaucracies to do it means delay and a watered-down…
Footnote 31: An Interview with Phil Lawler
https://media.blubrry.com/bellarmineforumfootnote/bellarmineforum.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Bellarmine-Forum-Footnote-31-Lawler.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadIn Footnote 30, Chris Manion interviews Phil Lawler, Editor of Catholic Culture (catholicculture.org).
Footnote 30: Interview with Bill and Ester Williams on the history of the Order in Malta – Part 2
In Footnote 30, Chris Manion interviews Bill Williams, a Knight of Magistral Grace in the Order of Saint John of Jerusalem, of Rhodes, and of Malta, and his wife Esther, a native of Malta, and they recount more highlights in the history of the Order on the Island of Malta.
