"My dear boys, throughout your life find a home in the Holy Family." Image: From right to left: Father Thomas Pope, Father William Neville, Father Paul Eaglesim, Cardinal Newman, the Cardinal's 'Gentiluomo', the 'Caudatario', or Trainbearer. Source: Wiki Commons Public Domain Editors' Notes A few words about the context of this short address. It was …
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"What is the "material object of faith," and where can we find it proposed?" Photo by DDP on Unsplash Editor's Comments Many essays on The WM Review refer to "professing the faith" as a condition for membership of the Church - and to heresy, the corresponding failure to profess the faith, which entails loss of …
"The Mystic Body shares the shame of the real Body. It is scoffed at and despised. But it also shares his glory." Image: Muncaksy, Christ in front of Pilate, Wiki Commons. Editors' Notes Many of those discussing the post-Vatican II crisis refer to "The Passion of the Church". Behind this is the idea that the …
Continue reading “To Love the Church is to Love Christ” – Fr John Kearney CSSp, 1939
“Without faith it is impossible to please God.” Image: John Martin's Last Judgment Wiki Commons CC Editor's Notes I recently shared the Simple Summary of the Catholic Faith written to help my recently deceased Grandmother when she was being received into the Church. I hope that that document will be useful to others. As I …
Continue reading What must we believe to be saved? from McHugh and Callan’s Moral Theology, 1958
"Who are those who are not to be accounted members of the Church?" Image: Pius XII saying Mass. Wiki Commons CC 2.0 Case Study This is the second part of a review of the ongoing Tradivox Catholic Catechism Index project. In the first part (the review itself), I discussed how we can use the authority …
"She will comfort you in your discouragements, solace you in your fatigues, raise you after your falls, reward you for your successes." Image: Wiki Commons Public Domain This is the second part of the sermon on the Assumption of our Blessed Lady by John Henry Cardinal Newman. It was published as one sermon in the …
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"She gave birth to the Creator, and what recompense shall be made her?" Image: Wiki Commons Public Domain This sermon on the Assumption of our Blessed Lady by John Henry Cardinal Newman was published in the collection Discourses Addressed to Mixed Congregations (and for UK readers). It was published in 1849, the first that he …
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"A Catholic should never be a minimizer in matters of Faith." Image: Apothesosis of St Ignatius Wiki Commons CC Editorial Commentary In honour of St Ignatius of Loyola, the great Counter-Reformation saint and the founder of the Society of Jesus, we are publishing the below extract from Fr Aloysius Ambruzzi's The Spiritual Exercises of St …
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“Actually only those are to be included as members of the Church who have been baptized and profess the true faith, and who have not been so unfortunate as to separate themselves from the unity of the Body, or been excluded by legitimate authority for grave faults committed. “For not every sin, however grave it …
"Take this glorious Saint for your master, and you will not wander out of the way.” In honour of St Joseph, we are publishing this exclusive translation of a sermon by Fr José María Bover SJ in two parts. This first part was published in advance of the feast of St Joseph the Worker (1 …
Continue reading Devotion to St Joseph, Part II: Logical Consequences – Fr Bover SJ