What follows is a conversation between two Catholic friends. We will call them Beppe and Carlo. Beppe wrote: « In between sleep and wakefulness (is that wokish?) I was thinking about the photo you sent with the multi-color runner and matching mask. [NOTE: this was a presumably Catholic priest who had the altar covered by a rainbow runner and appeared wearing a rainbow surgical mask]Strangely my thoughts turned to the three little peasant children at Fatima. They were 10, 9 and 7 years old … [Read more...]
Drowned in Darkness
Then from his mouth the serpent spewed water like a river, to overtake the woman and sweep her away with the torrent. But the earth helped the woman by opening its mouth and swallowing the river that the dragon had spewed out of his mouth. (Revelation 12:15-16)The first century was drawing to an end when Saint John the Apostle wrote those words. He describes in symbolic language the final, desperate efforts of the enemy of mankind to prevent the establishment of the Kingdom of Christ. I … [Read more...]
The True Side of Reality
It's still the same old story ... “Salomon saith, There is no new thing upon the earth. So that as Plato had an imagination, that all knowledge was but remembrance; so Salomon giveth his sentence, that all novelty is but oblivion.” ― Francis Bacon, The Essays. Early in the history of humanity the wisest of our ancestors discovered by intuition and observation that there was a universal Strength, the unstoppable Force that drives all Creation. They also noticed a sort of code of operations, a … [Read more...]
Nothingburger
And they went up on the breadth of the earth, and surrounded the encampment of the saints and the beloved city: and fire came down from heaven and devoured them.” (Revelation 20:9) Catholic authors have been known to be sometimes unwittingly prophetic. In my opinion, that is the case of the Spanish writer Donoso Cortés, of Fr. Félix Sardà y Salvany, and the Argentine Fr. Leonardo Castellani. For example, reading Catholicism, Liberalism and Socialism (1851) by Donoso Cortés, one can fully … [Read more...]
