under the patronage of St Joseph and St Dominic
By the rivers of Babylon there we sat and wept, remembering Zion;
on the poplars that grew there we hung up our harps. . . Ps 136
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under the patronage of St Joseph and St Dominic By the rivers of Babylon there we sat and wept, remembering Zion; |
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PAPERS FROM OTHER SITESI. Separation of Church & StateThe secular doctrine of the separation of Church and State is not part of the Church's teaching. It never has been. It is not now. We commend to readers an excellent article by David Palm demonstrating this at the following link to the Seattle Catholic website -- http://seattlecatholic.com/a050615.html II. Subjectivism & the HistoriansWe offer for your attention an opinion piece by Australian author Peter Ryan, 'Apologise to Blainey', published in The Australian on 15th December 2005. It damns the subjectivist academics at Melbourne University who contrived the removal from the University of Professor Geoffrey Blainey for daring in 1984 to criticise political correctness in the guise of multiculturalism. His reasonable views have been proved right by the tumultuous events in Sydney in the last week. III. Freemasonry & the Church in BrazilWe provide this link to an article on the Seattle Catholic website we commend to our readers entitled: 'The Young Friar and the Emperor', by O. M. Alves. It deals with the conflict between the Catholic bishops and Freemasons in Brazil in the late 19th century --http://www.seattlecatholic.com/a051102.htm IV. The Witness of Pius XIIWe attach a link to this fine paper by American writer George J Marlin published on the 51st anniversary of the death of Pope Pius XII on The Catholic Thing. http://www.thecatholicthing.org/content/view/2295/2/ V. The Lost Tools of Learning Dorothy Leigh Sayers (1893-1957) graduated from Oxford in 1916 with first class honours in modern languages and mediaeval literature after which she taught briefly. Between 1922 and 1931 she worked as an advertising copy writer. She published a popular series of detective novels featuring the aristocratic sleuth, Lord Peter Wimsey, a series of radio plays, a defence of Christianity and a respected translation of Dante's 'The Divine Comedy'. VI. Genesis & LiteralismFr Peter Joseph has published a commentary on the issue addressed on this website in the paper 'The Schismatic Tendency in Creation Science'. We attach a link to Fr Joseph's paper on the Servants of St Michael website - http://www.servantsofstmichael.org/index.php?view=article&catid=41%3Aarticles-by-fr-peter-joseph-pp-st-dominics-syd&id=63%3Agenesis-and-literalism&option=com_content&Itemid=65 VII. Prophets of our timeWhen, in the years to come, the Church raises up bishops and popes who recognise the shortcomings of the Second Vatican Council, and acknowledge the great evils which it has produced among the faithful, two men will be recognised for their devotion to the task of its unmasking in the face of overwhelming opposition from the Church’s intelligentia. They are the Italian theologian (and layman), Romano Amerio, and the English layman, Michael Davies, both now deceased. Amerio’s work, Iota Unum, published in Italian in 1985, and translated into many languages since[1] , and Davies’ many books, but especially his The Second Vatican Council and Religious Liberty[2], have been standards for those troubled by the theological problems precipitated by the Council. We are pleased to refer the reader to an article which has just appeared on the chiesa website, the rather clumsily expressed The Defenders of Tradition Want the Infallible Church back, access to which he may obtain via the following link— http://chiesa.espresso.repubblica.it/articolo/1344019?eng=y It may mark a significant step in the growth in disenchantment with the Second Vatican Council and its determinations. Michael Baker |