Day: August 17, 2011

Get With The Program. Ask For Intercession

After St. Mary and St. Joseph, my three favorite Saints are St. Benedict, St. Anthony, and St. Bede. By the grace of God, I was able to spend my senior year of high school, during which time I was a nominal Presbyterian, at St. Bede’s, a boarding school and two year college. In that time, […]

Orphans?

Catholic Fundamentalists often feel like orphans. Most Catholics look with suspicion on Fundamentalists. They remember persecutions, going all the way back to the 1500s, when Fundamentalists attacked The Church. In this country, self-styled Fundamentalists, beginning with the Quakers, and continuing through the Mainline Protestant denominations, engaged in anti-Catholic activity. Our governments, as did most others, […]

The Beginning of Catholic Fundamentalism

Forty years ago, Today’s Reading paralyzed me. I had resigned from a tenured position to start a business. I wasn’t sure what that business would be, but knew that I had to escape working for a huge bureaucracy. My grandfather had died, and had kindly left me ten or twelve thousand dollars. That, with the […]