The James Bond Cult - Crisis Magazine

The James Bond Cult - Crisis Magazine

SANCTE PATER: Satanists Attack Virgin Mary: Sign Your Protest Ag...

SANCTE PATER: Satanists Attack Virgin Mary: Sign Your Protest Ag...: By John Ritchie ( TFP Student Action )  With Oklahoma City's apparent stamp of approval, satanists were granted permission to ho...

Do Christians and Muslims Worship The Same God?

From The Christian Post

Saudi Reformist Jailed

From Jonathan Turley

The Sultan of Brunei Bans Christmas

From Jonathan Turley

ISIS Recruitment Video Features Bill Clinton

From Info Wars

Public Schools In Virginia Indoctrinate Students in Islam

From The Daily Signal

LGBT Group Urges Government to Crack Down on Religious Schools

From The Daily Signal

Little Catholic Bubble: The Synod Report is out in English; LGBTQ agendas ...

Little Catholic Bubble: The Synod Report is out in English; LGBTQ agendas ...: Did anyone notice? I never wrote about, nor was I at all concerned about, the Synods Of Bishops On The Family that convened at the Vatic...

Love of the Land: The "Intifada", Abbas and more lies

Love of the Land: The "Intifada", Abbas and more lies

Saint Teresa of Calcutta

From Southern Orders

The Problem With Hook-Up Culture | RedState

The Problem With Hook-Up Culture | RedState

Why the Democrats are quietly terrified of this youth vote report. | RedState

Why the Democrats are quietly terrified of this youth vote report. | RedState

The Discontented Catholics

The Discontented Catholics

Reid's Reader – A Blog of Book Reviews and Comment.: Something Old

Reid's Reader – A Blog of Book Reviews and Comment.: Something Old:   Not everything worth reading is hot off the press. In this section, we recommend "something old" that is ...

Congregationalist Mentality

From Southern Orders

Somebody's Got Some 'Splainin' to Do!

From This Ain't Hell But You Can See It From Here

The Watermelon in the Room: The Paris Climate Accord's Communist-Like Approach to Weather | RedState

The Watermelon in the Room: The Paris Climate Accord's Communist-Like Approach to Weather | RedState

Abbey Roads: If you really listen to Pope Francis when he speak...

Abbey Roads: If you really listen to Pope Francis when he speak...: Merciful love - as we hope in Him so shall we receive. I won't take the time to compare notes - instead I'll post a few quot...

#SanBernardinoShooting Killer Said She Wanted Martyrdom On Social Media | RedState

#SanBernardinoShooting Killer Said She Wanted Martyrdom On Social Media | RedState

louie, louie: By my monastic life and vows I am saying No to all...

louie, louie: By my monastic life and vows I am saying No to all...: Today is the 47th anniversary of the death of Thomas Merton. The following text is extracted from his preface to the Japanese edition of ...

Surviving Winter in the Middle Ages

Full story here

Mass in Las Vegas Disrupted by"Muslim Turned Christian" Protesters

Full story here

Sudden Grief

From A Father Talks to His Daughter About God

Obama Administration Shuts Down an Investigation That Would Have Stopped San Bernardino [VIDEO] | RedState

Obama Administration Shuts Down an Investigation That Would Have Stopped San Bernardino [VIDEO] | RedState

CNN's Ashleigh Banfield Marvels That White People Can be Fair (VIDEO) | RedState

CNN's Ashleigh Banfield Marvels That White People Can be Fair (VIDEO) | RedState

As GOP Prepares To Shove Refugee Funding Through Congress US Intel Reports ISIS Manufactures Syrian Passports | RedState

As GOP Prepares To Shove Refugee Funding Through Congress US Intel Reports ISIS Manufactures Syrian Passports | RedState

Radicalized Catholics

From Southern Orders

Abbey Roads: Our Lady of Guadalupe, Virgin of the Apocalypse.

Abbey Roads: Our Lady of Guadalupe, Virgin of the Apocalypse.: And a great sign appeared ... Our Lady of Guadalupe “When the image of the Virgin appeared on the tilma of Juan Diego, it was the ...

Supremacy and Survival: The English Reformation: Blessed Thomas Holland, SJ: "Sacrifice Them All"

Supremacy and Survival: The English Reformation: Blessed Thomas Holland, SJ: "Sacrifice Them All": From The Jesuit Curia in Rome: Thomas Holland (1600-1642) suffered from poor health during the whole of the seven years he spent in act...

Christmas Decorations

From Southern Orders

A Mythical Monkey writes about the movies: Sinatra At 100

A Mythical Monkey writes about the movies: Sinatra At 100: Today is Frank Sinatra's 100th birthday. I'll skip the usual eight thousand word essay and instead simply suggest some stocking stu...

Supremacy and Survival: The English Reformation: Martyrs on Gray's Inn Road and at Tyburn, December...

Supremacy and Survival: The English Reformation: Martyrs on Gray's Inn Road and at Tyburn, December...: St. Swithun Wells was hanged for NOT attending a Catholic Mass in Elizabethan England. His wife Alice attended the Mass held in his hou...

Vox Cantoris: Donald Trump's suggestion is already Law!

Vox Cantoris: Donald Trump's suggestion is already Law!: R are, if ever, it would be that I should use this blog to comment on a political election. I've done it recently for necessary reasons ...

The Angel and The Girl

The Angel and The Girl

Elder Of Ziyon - Israel News: Head of Al Azhar U tells students to read the 'Protocols of Elders of Zion'

Elder Of Ziyon - Israel News: Head of Al Azhar U tells students to read the 'Protocols of Elders of Zion'

Can a Catholic Be Excommunicated For Criticizing the Pope?

From Southern Orders

47th Anniversary of the Death of Thomas Merton

From A Concord Pastor

Have Gun, Will Travel: Understanding Islamic Terrorism

Have Gun, Will Travel: Understanding Islamic Terrorism: I ordered and read this book after hearing Dr. Patrick Sookhdeo on Dr. Deal Hudson's Church and Culture program on Ave Maria Radio....

What’s the Deal with Immaculate Conception in Eastern vs. Western Theology?

What’s the Deal with Immaculate Conception in Eastern vs. Western Theology?

Married Priests: What's the Problem?

From Southern Orders

Millennials Are At It Again...And It Just Gets More Ridiculous | RedState

Millennials Are At It Again...And It Just Gets More Ridiculous | RedState

Guns: The New Confederate Flag

From This Ain't Hell But You Can See It From Here

Abbey Roads: Disgruntled Catholics

Abbey Roads: Disgruntled Catholics: Disgruntled? I'm cleaning out my archives.  I think I deleted at least 200+ posts so far today.  I've deleted more than that ...

December 7, 1941. Pearl Harbor. | RedState

December 7, 1941. Pearl Harbor. | RedState

Judas Painting Survives Reformation

From The Guardian

Senator Rubio's Stellar Defense Of The Second Amendment [VIDEO] | RedState

Senator Rubio's Stellar Defense Of The Second Amendment [VIDEO] | RedState

Saint Louis Catholic: Prayer of Reparation for Blasphemies against Mary'...

Saint Louis Catholic: Prayer of Reparation for Blasphemies against Mary'...: Most glorious Virgin Mary, Mother of God and our Mother, turn thine eyes in pity upon us, miserable sinners; we are sore afflicted by...

The Right to Own Guns and the Right to Own Slaves | RedState

The Right to Own Guns and the Right to Own Slaves | RedState

Oliver Cromwell: Hero or Villian?

From The Imaginative Conservative

Where was God? … On the cross. | RedState

Where was God? … On the cross. | RedState

Syed Farook's Family Has Hired a Crazy, Conspiracy-theory Addled Lawyer (Updated) | RedState

Syed Farook's Family Has Hired a Crazy, Conspiracy-theory Addled Lawyer (Updated) | RedState

Our Father Who Art in Heaven Should Just Stay There

Our Father Who Art in Heaven Should Just Stay There

Saint Louis Catholic: About Those Rigid Seminarians...

Saint Louis Catholic: About Those Rigid Seminarians...: I found this link at Pewsitter , so I thank them for that.  It is the story of one vocation that was plucked from a modernist-run seminary....

A Prophecy of the End Times

A Prophecy of the End Times

Catholicism: Caravaggio and Kitsch

Catholicism: Caravaggio and Kitsch

Why Are Catholics Obsessed With Sex?

From Standing On My Head

It's Not Racist To Point Out the Obvious

From Little Catholic Bubble

Saint John Bosco on Islam

From Rorate Caeli

A reader struggles with his faith

A reader struggles with his faith

Erosion of Discipline = Erosion of Docrine

From Musings of a Pertenicious Papist

louie, louie: Monastero di Bose

louie, louie: Monastero di Bose: “There  must  be monasticism in the twenty-first century!” So said a friend not long ago. Both his implicit protest and his conviction ma...

Swedish Lesbian Bishop Removes Crosses From Church and Installs Muslim Prayer Room

From Breitbart 

“Unsportsmanlike conduct”: football player penalized for thanking God after touchdown

“Unsportsmanlike conduct”: football player penalized for thanking God after touchdown

Vox Cantoris: How does a Catholic Bishop speak? Look no further ...

Vox Cantoris: How does a Catholic Bishop speak? Look no further ...: T his is how a true bishop and apostle of Our Lord Jesus Christ speaks. One who is manly and not sold out to the world having been overcom...

Keep Calm and Deny Everything

From Southern Orders

Funny Stuff. Daylight Saving Movie Trailer

Funny Stuff. Daylight Saving Movie Trailer

It Might Be Time to Remember Planned Parenthood's Roots. Here's Sanger Chillaxin' with the KKK

It Might Be Time to Remember Planned Parenthood's Roots. Here's Sanger Chillaxin' with the KKK

Why Don’t Catholics Read the Bible?

Why Don’t Catholics Read the Bible?

louie, louie: Pope Francis on Thomas Merton

louie, louie: Pope Francis on Thomas Merton:  Photo by Thomas Merton "A century ago, at the beginning of the Great War, which Pope Benedict XV termed a "pointless slaught...

John Michael Talbot - The Jesus Prayer from "Nothing Is Impossible"

Annulment Reforms Reconsidered

Annulment Reforms Reconsidered

Elder Of Ziyon - Israel News: Jerusalem church leaders demand Judenrein Temple Mount - and maybe no Jews in Old City altogether

Elder Of Ziyon - Israel News: Jerusalem church leaders demand Judenrein Temple Mount - and maybe no Jews in Old City altogether

Saint Louis Catholic: That's No Malarkey

Saint Louis Catholic: That's No Malarkey: Maureen Mullarkey at First Things writes on the sabotage of marriage and the family perpetrated by the new annulment process imposed by ...

Revolution and Regression - Crisis Magazine

Revolution and Regression - Crisis Magazine

Tomorrow's Vatican Bombshell

From Southern Orders

Vatican to Announce Annulment Reforms

From the Deacon's Bench

Have Gun, Will Travel: Evita: The Real Life of Eva Peron

Have Gun, Will Travel: Evita: The Real Life of Eva Peron: This concise book (198 pages) sets the record straight on the biography of Eva Peron and the odyssey of her mummified body after her dea...

New York Times: Millennials bucking the trend and becoming nuns

New York Times: Millennials bucking the trend and becoming nuns

In Germany: “Muslim refugees converting in droves”

In Germany: “Muslim refugees converting in droves”

Arguing With the Anti-Catholics In Macon, Georgia

From Southern Orders

Modern P&W vs Traditional Worship

Modern P&W vs Traditional Worship

Abbey Roads: Tabernacle with the Blessed Sacrament from St. Pas...

Abbey Roads: Tabernacle with the Blessed Sacrament from St. Pas...: The thieves rolled it down the pavement. - details - The tabernacle was never even bolted down. Canon Law says the tabernac...

For Year of Mercy, pope allows all priests to grant absolution for abortion, permits confession with SSPX priests

For Year of Mercy, pope allows all priests to grant absolution for abortion, permits confession with SSPX priests

Fr. Barron on Gay Marriage & the Breakdown of Moral Argument

Everywhere USA

From Southern Orders

Stop California's Attorney General From Intimidating Conservative Donors | RedState

Stop California's Attorney General From Intimidating Conservative Donors | RedState

The Problem with Pews

The Problem with Pews

Time Traveling Catholic

From Southern Orders

Majority of Catholics Who Leave the Church Want to Stay Gone

From the Washington Post

THE B-MOVIE CATECHISM: DIRECTOR’S COMMENTARY: PULP CATHOLICISM #006 & #12...

THE B-MOVIE CATECHISM: DIRECTOR’S COMMENTARY: PULP CATHOLICISM #006 & #12...: Since I’ve recently felt the urge to experiment with digitally coloring my weekly Pulp Catholicism comics, I thought I would go back and sta...

THE B-MOVIE CATECHISM: PULP CATHOLICISM #135

THE B-MOVIE CATECHISM: PULP CATHOLICISM #135

SANCTE PATER: Father John Corapi Update

SANCTE PATER: Father John Corapi Update: By Matt C. Abbott ( Renew America )  A bit of good news to share: A reliable source has informed me that Father John Corapi, a popular ...

The Martyrs of September

From Amy Wellborn

Vatican: Transexuals Cannot Be Godparents

From Southern Orders

Jubilee of Mercy Is a Time for Confession

From Southern Orders

Clericalism in the Catholic Worker: A Response to the Des Moines Scandal

Clericalism in the Catholic Worker: A Response to the Des Moines Scandal

Why I Left My Parish: A Cautionary Tale

Why I Left My Parish: A Cautionary Tale

A priest faces death with faith: “I became a Jesuit to save souls, including my own”

A priest faces death with faith: “I became a Jesuit to save souls, including my own”

Iowa Bishop Bans Mass At Catholic Worker House Due to Female "Priest"

From Catholic Culture.Org

Anti-Catholic Rant In Georgia Newspaper

From Southern Orders

ISIS Bulldozes 1500 Year Old Monastery

From Jonathan Turley

“You worship idols”: haters slam Texas governor over Facebook post about the Virgin Mary

“You worship idols”: haters slam Texas governor over Facebook post about the Virgin Mary

The Coming Plague of Gender Confusion

The Coming Plague of Gender Confusion

Facebook strikes again, blocking Msgr. Charles Pope

Facebook strikes again, blocking Msgr. Charles Pope

“Churches are being used for prisons, ISIS have been breaking all the crosses and statues of Mary”

“Churches are being used for prisons, ISIS have been breaking all the crosses and statues of Mary”

St. Clare of Assisi: Contemplative, Miracle Worker, Lover of the Eucharist

St. Clare of Assisi: Contemplative, Miracle Worker, Lover of the Eucharist

Abbey Roads: The feast of Santa Chiara d'Assisi

Abbey Roads: The feast of Santa Chiara d'Assisi: Holy Lady Clare, most beautiful among women. Help me. Help me to  know anew ... How does your lover differ from any othe...

Christie Uses Birth Control!!!

Christie Uses Birth Control!!!

Pat Robertson Blasts Gay Christians

From the Huffington Post

Mississippi Couple Tries to Join ISIS

Full story from Yahoo News.

Good Old Boys Like Me

Good Old Boys Like Me

Planned Parenthood: The New Nazis

Planned Parenthood: The New Nazis

What the Horrifying Planned Parenthood Videos Really Reveal

What the Horrifying Planned Parenthood Videos Really Reveal

Have Gun, Will Travel: ANDERSONVILLE: THE LAST DEPOT

Have Gun, Will Travel: ANDERSONVILLE: THE LAST DEPOT: I can't say enough good things about William Marvel's 1994 monograph on the Confederate prison at Andersonville, Georgia.  The b...

Report: priest stops funeral Mass mid-liturgy

Report: priest stops funeral Mass mid-liturgy

Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor...But Not Your Christians

Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor...But Not Your Christians

Jefferson and Jackson banned by Democrats

The founders of the Democratic Party have been banned by Democrats.   From Jonathan Turley.

Have Gun, Will Travel: THE CONFEDERACY'S LAST HURRAH

Have Gun, Will Travel: THE CONFEDERACY'S LAST HURRAH: It's probably not politically correct anymore to even study Civil War history.  Seemingly we have reached a point where we will be r...

Tudorscribe: Writing Fiction & Nonfiction About the 16th Century: The Truth About "Bloody Mary"

Tudorscribe: Writing Fiction & Nonfiction About the 16th Century: The Truth About "Bloody Mary": By Nancy Bilyeau Bloody Mary is the name of a drink that always contains booze and tomato juice and sometimes contains a dash of Worces...

The Death of the Rebbe

From Failed Messiah

Anglicans Ablaze: What Non-Christians Really Think About Christians

Anglicans Ablaze: What Non-Christians Really Think About Christians: One of my greatest joys in research is talking to and listening to those who clearly identify themselves as non-Christians. Don’t get me ...

Abbey Roads: Iconoclasm in NYC: Removing the iconography of the...

Abbey Roads: Iconoclasm in NYC: Removing the iconography of the...: The appropriate 'development of doctrine" (in iconography) at Our Saviour. Solid Catholic teaching for all to see. Undoing...

A new church reality: heightened security

A new church reality: heightened security

Abbey Roads: There is nothing worse than this ... nothing more ...

Abbey Roads: There is nothing worse than this ... nothing more ...: Arise O Lord, and may your enemies be scattered. May those who hate you flee before your holy face. + + + Arise then, Lord, lift ...

Coca-Cola (@CocaCola) and Verizon (@Verizon) Have Subsidized the Brutal Killing of Animals | RedState

Coca-Cola (@CocaCola) and Verizon (@Verizon) Have Subsidized the Brutal Killing of Animals | RedState

The Eclectic Reader: I AM LEGION

The Eclectic Reader: I AM LEGION: I wanted to like this novel a lot more than I did.  It was written by A.N. Wilson who is a very good writer and it was about the Christ...

Fr. Robert Barron named auxiliary bishop to Los Angeles

Fr. Robert Barron named auxiliary bishop to Los Angeles

EPA Could Care Less About Poor Children | RedState

EPA Could Care Less About Poor Children | RedState

Contrary to what some may say, #AllLivesMatter | RedState

Contrary to what some may say, #AllLivesMatter | RedState

The Whores of Moloch Preside Over the American Press Corps | RedState

The Whores of Moloch Preside Over the American Press Corps | RedState

Macon, Georgia Catholic School Sued for Firing Openly Gay Teacher

From Southern Orders

Anglicans Ablaze: 6 Things Christians Can Do about Same Sex Marriage...

Anglicans Ablaze: 6 Things Christians Can Do about Same Sex Marriage...: “It’s over,” he told me (John) grimly. “We’ve lost.” These words came from a wounded warrior, a pastor who had dedicated much of his mi...

The Mad Monarchist: Mad Rant: Calling the British Royals Nazis

The Mad Monarchist: Mad Rant: Calling the British Royals Nazis: No, this was not a planned article as part of the “Year of World War II” at The Mad Monarchist but a reaction to a story that recently ap...

More Catholic, Less American

More Catholic, Less American

T-shirt evangelization

T-shirt evangelization

How the “Our Father” Can Change Your Life

How the “Our Father” Can Change Your Life

Abbey Roads: Solemnity of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel.

Abbey Roads: Solemnity of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel.: + You were seen as our light and surety, we therefore shout to you: Rejoice, O unsetting star which leads the great Sun into the...

Abbey Roads: This is ridiculous. Rachel Rose Dumont - Bride o...

Abbey Roads: This is ridiculous. Rachel Rose Dumont - Bride o...: Nothing wrong with Consecrated Virgins ... but. I once had a spiritual director who thought the revision in canon law (Canon 603) per...

Democrats’ War on Racist Symbols Requires a Look at Their Racist History | RedState

Democrats’ War on Racist Symbols Requires a Look at Their Racist History | RedState

The mainstreaming of sexual deviancy | RedState

The mainstreaming of sexual deviancy | RedState

Our Broken Country | RedState

Our Broken Country | RedState

Chesterton, Lewis and Tolkein in Elfland

Great Essay by Joseph Pierce

St. Kateri Tekakwitha: First Native American Saint

St. Kateri Tekakwitha: First Native American Saint

Supremacy and Survival: The English Reformation: At Last! The Irish May Criticize Henry VIII's Marr...

Supremacy and Survival: The English Reformation: At Last! The Irish May Criticize Henry VIII's Marr...: News from Ireland (via The Irish Times ): A proclamation of 1533 prohibiting criticism of the marriage of Henry VIII to his second wif...

Chaput: school showed “character and common sense” in firing lesbian

Chaput: school showed “character and common sense” in firing lesbian

White People Will Always Be Racist

From The Federalist

Texas Bishop: Gay Marriage Law is Unjust and It is Our Duty as Catholics to Oppose It

Full story from CNS

Abbey Roads: The Crucifix of Fr. Luis Espinal Camps, S.J.

Abbey Roads: The Crucifix of Fr. Luis Espinal Camps, S.J.: The Holy Father appears to be disconcerted  as President Morales presented a replica of a crucifix originally carved by Fr. Espinal....

Saint Louis Catholic: The Coming Era of Civil Disobedience

Saint Louis Catholic: The Coming Era of Civil Disobedience: Patrick Buchanan: And for those who, when young, rejected the views, values and laws of Eisenhower’s America, what makes them think...

Anglicans Ablaze: 8 major religious groups in US prohibit same-sex m...

Anglicans Ablaze: 8 major religious groups in US prohibit same-sex m...: Eight of the largest religious institutions in the United States oppose same-sex marriage, which was recently legalised by the Supreme Co...

Did Francis really call capitalism the “dung of the devil”?

Did Francis really call capitalism the “dung of the devil”?

Father MacDonald's Letter to the Editor

From Southern Orders

Theology Chairman’s Same-Sex Wedding Begins ‘Flood’ of Challenges to Catholic Identity

Theology Chairman’s Same-Sex Wedding Begins ‘Flood’ of Challenges to Catholic Identity

ACLU Loses Lawsuit in Attempt to Force Catholic Hospital to Do Abortions

ACLU Loses Lawsuit in Attempt to Force Catholic Hospital to Do Abortions

Vox Pundit: American Revolution Was Bad, Abolish Senate & Constitution | RedState

Vox Pundit: American Revolution Was Bad, Abolish Senate & Constitution | RedState

Is the Culture War A Lost Cause

From The Imaginative Conservative

Ambrose Bierce and the Flag Debate

From The Late Unpleasantness

The Bad Catholic's Movie and TV Blog: Two Classic Japanese Films

The Bad Catholic's Movie and TV Blog: Two Classic Japanese Films: Last night I watched two classic Japanese films which I had rented from Netflix on DVD. NO REGRETS FOR OUR YOUTH No Regrets for ...

Twelve Things to Remember if the SCOTUS Decision Upsets You

Twelve Things to Remember if the SCOTUS Decision Upsets You

Why the Episcopalians Voted for Gay Marriage

Why the Episcopalians Voted for Gay Marriage

Mr. Sulu: Racist Bigot

From Red State

Reruns of the old TV show The Dukes of Hazzard have been banned by TV Land. Dukes features two Southern rural cousins (who happen to be heterosexuals) named Bo and Luke Duke, who live on the very edges of the law with their cousin Daisy D...

Reruns of the old TV show The Dukes of Hazzard have been banned by TV Land.  Dukes features two  Southern rural cousins (who happen to be heterosexuals) named Bo and Luke Duke, who live on the very edges of the law with their cousin Daisy D...

Welcome to the Marriage Mess

Welcome to the Marriage Mess

Happy Catholic*: Well Said: The Church's Execution

Happy Catholic*: Well Said: The Church's Execution: The notice of [the Church's] execution has been posted, but the execution has never taken place. Science killed her, and still she was ...

Anglicans Ablaze: You Will Be Persecuted with Words

Anglicans Ablaze: You Will Be Persecuted with Words: What does it mean to be persecuted for our faith? Quite often I hear people say that Christians aren’t being persecuted in the United S...

Anglicans Ablaze: 40 Questions for Christians Now Waving Rainbow Fla...

Anglicans Ablaze: 40 Questions for Christians Now Waving Rainbow Fla...: For evangelicals who lament last Friday’s Supreme Court decision, it’s been a hard few days. We aren’t asking for emotional pity, nor do ...

Anglicans Ablaze: Why Homosexuality Is Not Like Other Sins

Anglicans Ablaze: Why Homosexuality Is Not Like Other Sins: Homosexuality is not the only sin mentioned in 1 Corinthians 6:9–10. Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the king...

The Clash of Secular and Sacred

The Clash of Secular and Sacred: Two Films by Robert Bolt

The Banning and Burning of Flags

Great post by Joseph Pierce

The viewpoint that dare not speak its name

The viewpoint that dare not speak its name

The Rainbow Flag or the Confederate Flag?

The Rainbow Flag or the Confederate Flag?

Satan Hates Marriage

Satan Hates Marriage

We’re Catholics. Everything’s Connected.

We’re Catholics. Everything’s Connected.

Churches Are the Next Target

From Southern Orders

The Sin of Anger

From Southern Orders

“Shouldn’t the Church be excommunicating these people?”

“Shouldn’t the Church be excommunicating these people?”

Philadelphia Gays Welcome During Pope's Visit

From GOPUSA

The Judicial Dictatorship

From GOPUSA

Churches Should Not Cave In or Panic

Southern Baptist Pastor says Churches should not cave in or panic about the Supreme Court decision.  From the Washington Post

Culture Wars

From The Telegraph

Moving Forward

From Southern Orders

Ensuring #LoveWins | RedState

Ensuring #LoveWins | RedState

That Glad Night: The Church

That Glad Night: The Church: The credibility of the Catholic Church in America is in crisis. This is nothing new. In the mid-90s, flocks of Catholics left for the emotio...

Saint Louis Catholic: I'm Signing On

Saint Louis Catholic: I'm Signing On: Though no one there asked me to, I am hereby officially signing on to Rorate Caeli's editorial about the Catholic response to legali...

Fox News Priest Spat On By Gay Marchers

Full story here

Catholic Leaders Resolve to Hold Firm to Biblical Marriage Teaching

Catholic Leaders Resolve to Hold Firm to Biblical Marriage Teaching

The New Normal

From Southern Orders

Black Pastors Call for Civil Disobedience

From Southern Orders

Catholic Champion Blog: America, Where is thy Charity?

Catholic Champion Blog: America, Where is thy Charity?

Saint Louis Catholic: Supreme Court Pronounces Time of Death of American...

Saint Louis Catholic: Supreme Court Pronounces Time of Death of American...

Saint Louis Catholic: What Do These Two Flags Have in Common?

Saint Louis Catholic: What Do These Two Flags Have in Common?: Answer:  They are flags of countries where slavery was legal. They are also flags of countries that no longer exist.

Abbey Roads: The Supreme Court declared Friday that same-sex co...

Abbey Roads: The Supreme Court declared Friday that same-sex co...: What's this?!* "This is revolting. How can you tolerate people who...?" Gloria Upson _ _ _ So anyway. ...

Anglicans Ablaze: Supreme Court extends same-sex marriage nationwide...

Anglicans Ablaze: Supreme Court extends same-sex marriage nationwide...: The U.S. Supreme Court transformed the legal definition of marriage Friday (June 26), legalizing same-sex marriage nationwide. In a 5-4...

USCCB on SCOTUS gay marriage ruling: “Move forward with faith, hope, and love”

USCCB on SCOTUS gay marriage ruling: “Move forward with faith, hope, and love”

Triablogue: Time to fight back

Triablogue: Time to fight back: Robert A. J. Gagnon In what should rank as the worst decision of the Supreme Court of the United States in the lifetime of...

Abbey Roads: Now that gay marriage is legal and equal to tradit...

Abbey Roads: Now that gay marriage is legal and equal to tradit...: Historic moment - though gay marriages were occasionally celebrated privately by ordained clergy since the early 1970's, PBS is ru...

You Could Be Next: Federal Government Attempts to Intimidate Reason.com Over Internet Comments | RedState

You Could Be Next: Federal Government Attempts to Intimidate Reason.com Over Internet Comments | RedState

HIllary Clinton Questions the Christianity of Her Political Opponents. Is That OK Now?

HIllary Clinton Questions the Christianity of Her Political Opponents. Is That OK Now?

Saint Louis Catholic: Authority Squandered

Saint Louis Catholic: Authority Squandered: The Pope's foray into political "science", hitching the Church to the climate change medicine show, is now history.  Many Ca...

louie, louie: The Columbia Jester

louie, louie: The Columbia Jester: The Columbia Jester, 1934. Issue of the school magazine from Columbia University, this issue from the golden age when Reinhardt edited wi...

Have Gun, Will Travel: CONFEDERATES IN THE ATTIC

Have Gun, Will Travel: CONFEDERATES IN THE ATTIC: Twenty years ago, in the mid-1990's, journalist Tony Horowitz made a trek through the South to discover why Southerners are still so...

Supremacy and Survival: The English Reformation: May 30, Tyburn Tree in 1582 and 1612

Supremacy and Survival: The English Reformation: May 30, Tyburn Tree in 1582 and 1612: Saint Luke Kirby, Blessed William Filby, Blessed Lawrence Johnson, and Blessed Thomas Cottam SJ, four priests and martyrs suffered at Tyb...

Cardinal Burke compares Irish to the pagans for endorsing gay marriage

Cardinal Burke compares Irish to the pagans for endorsing gay marriage

Year of Mercy?

From Musings of a Pertinicious Papist

Anglicans Ablaze: United Church of Canada to Investigate 'Effectiven...

Anglicans Ablaze: United Church of Canada to Investigate 'Effectiven...: A regional body of the United Church of Canada will interview a clergywoman who is an outspoken atheist to see about her "effectiven...

louie, louie: The good Fr. Louis

louie, louie: The good Fr. Louis: Photo by Jim Forest I finished the Lipsey book ( "Make Peace Before the Sun Goes Down" ) last night. I had been reading it al...

Atheist Group Demands Air Force General Be Court Martialed For Sharing Christian Faith

From The Air Force Times

Electric Incense Burner

From Southern Orders

Endless Homilies

From The American Catholic

''Come back! Come Back...'' | Word on Fire

''Come back! Come Back...'' | Word on Fire

Catholic College to Honor Leader of Pro-Abortion Groups Amid Protest of Cardinal Dolan

Catholic College to Honor Leader of Pro-Abortion Groups Amid Protest of Cardinal Dolan

‘Hi, We’re Lesbian Feminists and We’re Here to Talk to Your Daughter About Sex’

‘Hi, We’re Lesbian Feminists and We’re Here to Talk to Your Daughter About Sex’

The Eclectic Reader: THE NIGHT VISITOR AND OTHER STORIES

The Eclectic Reader: THE NIGHT VISITOR AND OTHER STORIES: I greatly enjoyed this collection of short stories by the mysterious B. Traven. All of the stories in this collection are set in M...

The Dismantling of Summorum Pontificum

From 1 Peter 5

Catholic Procession in Italy Bullied and Threatened By Muslim Youth

From Brietbart

The Believer In the Public Square | RedState

The Believer In the Public Square | RedState

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I'm slowly working my way through the legendary studio recording of The Ring of the Nibelung recorded in Vienna between 1958 and 1964 with Sir Georg Solti conducting the Vienna Philharmonic.

After listening to Das Rheingold,  I think that the reputation of this recording is well deserved.  This was an ambitious feat of audio engineering when it was done in the mid twentieth century.  At the time it was released there was no complete version of the entire Ring cycle readily available to the record buying public.  The recording took advantage of advances in stereo and recording technology and the long-playing album or "LP."

The producers wished to have the total experience of Wagner's music dramas captured on disc.  Using the idea of the "theater of the mind" the recording features sound effects like thunder, sword clashes, hammers striking anvils and the like, to convey to the listener what is going on in the story.

Known for his aggressive conducting and vibrant tempos, Sir Georg Solti (1912-1997) was one of the great Wagner conductors of all time.   The producers also went to great lengths to bring in the best singing talent available.  

Gustav Neidlinger (1910-1991)

The first opera of the cycle, Das Rheingold, was recorded between September 24th and October 8, 1958.  It starred George London as Wotan,  Eberhard Wachter as Donner, Waldemar Kmentt as Froh, Set Svanholm as Loge, Gustav Neidlinger as Alberich, Paul Kuen as Mime, Walter Kreppal as Fasolt, Kurt Bohme as Fafner, Kirsten Flagstad as Fricka, Claire Watson as Freia, Jean Madeira as Erda, Oda Balsborg as Woglinde, Hetty Plumacher as Wellgunde and Ira Malanuik as Flosshilde.

A youthful Kirsten Flagstad as Brunhilde

Gustav Neidlinger's (1910-1991) performance as Alberich in this recording is considered by some to be one of the best Alberich's of all time.  This recording also features one of the final performances of the legendary Kirsten Flagstad (1895-1962).  Flagstad was considered by many to be the greatest dramatic soprano of all time.  Writing in the New Grove Dictionary of Opera, Desmond Shawe-Taylor said, "No one within living memory surpassed her in sheer beauty and consistency of line and tone."  Her performances at the Metropolitan Opera in the 1930s caused a sensation.  While performing at the Met Flagstad did the whole prima donna thing and had an explosive feud with her co-star, tenor Lauritz Melchoir.  A Norwegian, Flagstad was heavily criticized for her decision to leave the United States and return to be with her husband in Nazi occupied Norway.  Flagstad suffered from a poor public opinion of her for many years during and after the war.   The aging Flagstad was recruited to sing the part of Fricka in the Decca studio recording, and, true to form, her pitch perfect voice resounds in this recording.

Flagstad about the time of the Solti studio recording.

I like my Wagner to be played loud and fast like the heavy metal version of classical music and Solti and the Vienna Philharmonic deliver.  The Penguin Guide to Recorded Classical Music says this:  "The immediacy and pacing are thrilling, while the sound-effects of the final scenes, including Donner's hammer blow and the rainbow bridge, have never been matched since.  Solti gives a magnificent reading of the score, crisp, dramatic and direct.  Vocally, the set is held together by the unforgettable singing of Neidlinger as Alberich.  He vocalizes with wonderful precision and makes the character of the dwarf develop from the comic creature of the opening scene to the demented monster of the last.  Flagstad learned the part of Fricka especially for this recording, and her performance makes one regret that she never took the role on the stage.  George London is sometimes a little rough, but this is a dramatic portrayal of the young Wotan.  Svanholm could be more characterful as Loge, but again it is a relief to hear the part really sung.  An outstanding achievement.  

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Otello (Metropolitan Opera 1995)

1995 Production of the Metropolitan Opera Conducted By James Levine.  Starring Pacido Domingo, as Otello, Renee Fleming as Desdemona, and James Morris as Iago.

Next to Wagner, Verdi is acknowledged as the greatest operatic composer of the 19th century.  This 1995 production from the Met is almost perfect.  It's well sung, well acted and the music is well played.  James Levine proves himself, once again, to be one of the greatest conductors of all time.

Placedo Domingo was 54 in 1995, but as far as I can tell, was still in perfect form.  Renee Fleming was approximately age 36, and it's noticeable that she's a little old to be playing a young girl in her late teens or early 20s.  Morris' Iago is sufficiently sinister without being over the top.  This was a traditional staging, which I like.  All in all, I thought that this production was almost perfect and we are lucky to have it captured on video.

Renee  Fleming as Desdemona  and Placido Domingo as  Otello

  

Renee Fleming

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Suffering

This appeared in my parish bulletin for the Second Sunday of Easter (April 12, 2015):

I have a friend who is suffering greatly.  She is very spiritual about her suffering and seems to have found a truly Christian way to embrace it.  How can we best understand suffering?
                                                                                        A Sympathetic Christian

Dear Sympathetic,

Mother Teresa tells us this about suffering: Suffering will never be completely absent from our lives.  If we accept it with faith, we are given the opportunity to share the passion of Jesus and show him our love.  She tells this story: "One day I went to visit a lady who had terminal cancer.  Her pain was tremendous.  I told her, 'This is nothing but Jesus' kiss, a sign that you are so close to him on the cross that he can kiss you.' She joined her hands and said, 'Mother, ask Jesus not to stop kissing me.'"

The Book of Job in the Hebrew Scriptures gives us the classic approach to suffering.  Job was inflicted with great suffering.  He was able to find meaning in his suffering only when he stopped scolding God and complaining to God.  Job suddenly started to see the beauty and mystery of all the life that surrounded him.  He began to see that every part of God's creation was marvelous.  He found that knowing and accepting God was more important than finding the answers to why he suffered.  Job testified, "By his light I walked through darkness." (Job 29:3).

Jesus brought a new notion to suffering: for Jesus, suffering is redemptive.  When we suffer, we can link our experience with the Lord's.  Our sufferings then have a redeeming place in the salvation of the world.  They can bring a miraculous presence into the life of another.  In times of trial, Jesus is the companion and the guide who can lead us through.

                                                                                    Rev. William J. Parker, S.Ss.R.

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The Goodall Ring Cycle

I have to take Wagner in doses.  About six months ago, I got back into one of my Wagnerite moods and listened to The Rhine Gold, The Valkyrie and Siegfried all in a row.  Tired of Wagner, I put off listening to The Twilight of the Gods.  It's taken me about six months to get back to it.

The Space Age staging of the English National Opera production

The Ring Cycle that I've been listening to was recorded at the English National Opera in the 1970s, with the orchestra conducted by Sir Reginald Goodall (1901 - 1990).  The really remarkable thing about this Ring Cycle is that it was sung in English from a translation by the music scholar Andrew Porter (1928 - 2015).

The Rhinegold: recorded at the London Coliseum March 19th, 25th, and 29th, 1975

Described at the time as a "space age" staging, the sets and costumes suggested a futuristic setting "a long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away."  Critic Simon Thomas describes seeing this production of the Ring as an 18 year old at the London Coliseum:  "Of course, by today's standards, it was pretty straightforward, a bit updated but no clowns, Michelin men or camp cowboys in sight.  I was a little disappointed with some of the 'effects' the dragon was a bit lame, the Rhine was represented by coloured lights shining on the metallic strips of the set and the finale of 'Twilight of the Gods' saw Rita Hunter standing solidly out front with a film of a running white horse behind her.  Not quite what my imagination had conjured up."  The production starred Norman Bailey as Wotan, Rita Hunter as Brunhilde and Alberto Remedios as Siegfried.

The Valkyrie: recorded at the London Coliseum December 18th, 20th, and 23, 1975

I'm really a novice when it comes to high brow music appreciation.  I know what I like and what sounds good and that's about the extent of my skills as a music critic.  One of the criticisms of this Ring Cycle was the leisurely tempo adopted by Sir Reginald Goodall.  Apparently, this is one of the slowest Ring Cycles ever recorded and is several hours longer than other recordings by great Wagnerian conductors like Furtwangler and Solti.  I can say that it sounds fine to me.  Maybe it doesn't blow the stereo speakers out with loudness, but Goodall can jam when he needs to.

Siegfried: recorded at the London Coliseum August 2nd, 8th, and 21st, 1973

I think that part of the reason for the slow tempo is that the opera is being sung in a translation and Goodall worked hard with many rehearsals to make it sound just right.  Andrew Porter's paraphrase of Wagner's German poetry is masterful.  (I call it a paraphrase rather than a translation based upon what Porter himself says about his work in the preface to the book version of his translation.)

Twilight of the Gods: Recorded at the London Coliseum August 6th, 13th, and 27th, 1977

It also raises the question whether Wagner in translation is really still Wagner.  Obviously, the music is Wagner's.  If you're German, like mine, is non-existent, it certainly makes it enjoyable to hear the story sung in a language you can understand. Every translation is an interpretation.  Some translations, like the King James Bible, may even be better literature than the original.  To the extent that any translated work of the literature is still the work of the original author, this is The Ring of the Nibelung.   To the extent that War and Peace in translation is still Tolstoy, Porter's Ring translation is still Wagner.

Rita Hunter, Sir Reginald Goodall, and Alberto Remedios

Sir Reggie, who is acknowledged by most critics as one of the greatest Wagner conductors of all time, was apparently quite an eccentric.  Considering the fact that Der Meister himself was one of the most eccentric characters of all time, being an eccentric is appropriate for a Wagnerian.

According to Wikipedia: Passionate about all things German, in the 1930s Goodall openly sympathized with the Nazi regime, which he perceived as a defender of Germanic cultural traditions.  Goodall also actively supported Oswald Moseley's British Union of Fascists, and he eventually joined the party just five days after Britain's declaration of war on Germany.  He maintained his outspoken pro-Nazi views during World War II, the uninhibited expression of which once led him to be briefly questioned by the police.  Goodall was known to refer to the Holocaust as a "BBC Jewish plot."

True Wagner Fans Never Get Enough!

A celebrated Wagnerian who was a Nazi sympathizer and Holocaust denier.  I'm sure that somebody could write several shelves of books about the psychology of that!

Sir Reginald Goodall

Speaking of shelves of books, there are entire libraries dedicated to analyzing the meaning of Wagner's Ring Cycle.  Since this is my religion blog, I will concede that however much I love the work of Der Meister, the underlying philosophy behind it is probably pagan and anti-Christian.  As a 19th century Romantic, Wagner wanted to overturn the power of the Church and monarchies and advocated a secular humanism based upon art, music and literature.  The final destruction of the gods means that man is now free from the contraints of religion.  Man's spiritual longings will be fulfilled not by belief in the supernatural but with art, of which Wagner's "Musical Dramas" are the highest expression.  As I've said, Wagner was an eccentric of the highest order, and he certainly was not humble.

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According to David P. Goldman in an article in First Things from December, 2010: "Das Rheingold premiered in Munich in 1869 under the patronage of King Ludwig II of Bavaria, who worshiped Wagner.  The First Vatican Council was in session. A year later, Italy's unification destroyed the Vatican's territorial power, completing what Napoleon began: the dissolution of the old regime of Church and Empire.  Wagner's contemporaries could have no doubt as to the content of his allegory. . . . That the old regime of throne and altar had fallen, Wagner's generation could have had no doubt.  Wagner told them to celebrate rather than mourn its demise, for in the Twilight of the Gods their impulses would be freed from the fetters of the law."

The Goodall Ring Cycle is worth a listen.  The Bad Catholic gives it five out of five horned helmets.

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