Pope John Paul II on the Coming Battle for Truth
March 31, 2009 by Patrick Madrid
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Archbishop Sheen on the Coming Battle for Truth
March 31, 2009 by Patrick Madrid
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Three Views of the Future
March 30, 2009 by Patrick Madrid
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Suddenly, it’s 100 years from now—the late 21st century. You can see the Catholic Church’s condition as it could be when your great-grandchildren are adults. What will it be like?
The following “documents” present scenarios for the Church as it might become a hundred years from now. The author wishes to point out to the reader that, given the complexity of factors in the present world, many other situations could develop. But the following suggest three which are not beyond the realm of possibility.
The first: The Catholic Church is undergoing a worldwide persecution, during which the strengths of the Body of Christ are in full flower under conditions of extreme stress.
The second: A worst-case scenario, in which the Church, especially in North America and Europe, has been largely compromised, has grown lukewarm and has made a false peace with the
spiritus mundi.The third: After a delay of a century, a grace period brought about by the “New Evangelization” of Pope John Paul II, the Church has succeeded in bringing the gospel to the entire world. However, once again the secular order has begun to degenerate into universal materialism. The Church, having made many gains and suffered some losses, now faces a situation strikingly similar to that of the late 20th century. ( Continue reading.
)5 Myths About 7 Books
March 29, 2009 by Patrick Madrid
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People don’t talk much about the deuterocanon these days. The folks who do are mostly Christians, and they usually fall into two general groupings: Catholics — who usually don’t know their Bibles very well and, therefore, don’t know much about the deuterocanonical books, and Protestants — who may know their Bibles a bit better, though their Bibles don’t have the deuterocanonical books in them anyway, so they don’t know anything about them either. With the stage thus set for informed ecumenical dialogue, it’s no wonder most people think the deuterocanon is some sort of particle weapon recently perfected by the Pentagon.
The deuterocanon (ie. “second canon”) is a set of seven books — Sirach, Tobit, Wisdom, Judith, 1 and 2 Maccabees, and Baruch, as well as longer versions of Daniel and Esther — that are found in the Old Testament canon used by Catholics, but are not in the Old Testament canon used by Protestants, who typically refer to them by the pejorative term “apocrypha.” This group of books is called “deuterocanonical” not (as some imagine) because they are a “second rate” or inferior canon, but because their status as being part of the canon of Scripture was settled later in time than certain books that always and everywhere were regarded as Scripture, such as Genesis, Isaiah, and Psalms.
Why are Protestant Bibles missing these books? Protestants offer various explanations to explain why they reject the deuterocanonical books as Scripture. I call these explanations “myths” because they are either incorrect or simply inadequate reasons for rejecting these books of Scripture. Let’s explore the five most common of these myths and see how to respond to them. . . . ( Continue reading.)
Mrs. Clinton Meets Our Lady of Guadalupe
March 27, 2009 by Patrick Madrid
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How the Catholic Church Can LOSE the Culture War
March 27, 2009 by Patrick Madrid
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An explosive set of new directives issued from Low Command (a.k.a. Hell) was recently intercepted behind enemy lines by an ace Envoy operative, whom we can identify only as “Peter Kreeft.” Our operative was able to spirit these devilish marching orders back to HQ, and we reproduce them here for you verbatim, so you can know what to expect from those on the other side of the gates of hell.
As an addendum, our agent “Kreeft” has drawn up a list of important countermeasures to be implemented immediately by all agents of the King. Needless to say, High Command (a.k.a. Heaven) has authorized these directives. Your mission, should you decide to accept it, is to ensure that this dossier is delivered intact to all friends, family, co-workers, acquaintances, and total strangers within your network. This Envoy article will not self-destruct in five seconds. So, pass it around. Okay?
— Patrick Madrid, Director of the Envoy Institute of Belmont Abbey College
Here's How Margaret Sanger Became a "Crusader" For Birth Control
March 26, 2009 by Patrick Madrid
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Margaret Sanger (1879-1966) was the Mother of all murderers, the foundress of Planned Parenthood, and an indefatigable proponent of racist eugenics policies that sought to use contraception, sterilization, and abortion as the means of depopulating those non-white ethnic groups she deemed to be “human weeds.” She has the blood of millions of unborn victims of abortion on her hands. May God have mercy on her soul.
Here’s How Margaret Sanger Became a "Crusader" For Birth Control
March 26, 2009 by Patrick Madrid
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Margaret Sanger (1879-1966) was the Mother of all murderers, the foundress of Planned Parenthood, and an indefatigable proponent of racist eugenics policies that sought to use contraception, sterilization, and abortion as the means of depopulating those non-white ethnic groups she deemed to be “human weeds.” She has the blood of millions of unborn victims of abortion on her hands. May God have mercy on her soul.
The Notre Dame Debacle: A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words
March 26, 2009 by Patrick Madrid
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House Adopts Plan for Mandatory "Volunteer" Corps
March 26, 2009 by Patrick Madrid
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The U.S. House of Representatives has approved a plan to set up a new “volunteer corps” and consider whether “a workable, fair, and reasonable mandatory service requirement for all able young people” should be developed.
The legislation also refers to “uniforms” that would be worn by the “volunteers” and the “need” for a “public service academy, a 4-year institution” to “focus on training” future “public sector leaders.” The training, apparently, would occur at “campuses.”
The vote yesterday came on H.R. 1388, which reauthorizes through 2014 the National and Community Service Act of 1990 and the Domestic Volunteer Service Act of 1973, acts that originally, among other programs, funded the AmeriCorps and the National Senior Service Corps.
It not only reauthorizes the programs, but also includes “new programs and studies” and is expected to be funded with an allocation of $6 billion over the next five years, according to the Congressional Budget Office.
Many, however, are raising concerns that the program, which is intended to include 250,000 “volunteers,” is the beginning of what President Obama called his “National Civilian Security Force” in a a speech last year in which he urged creating an organization as big and well-funded as the U.S. military. He has declined since then to elaborate.
WND reported when a copy of the speech provided online apparently was edited to exclude Obama’s specific references to the new force.
The video of his statements is posted [below]:
