All Entries in the "Chivalry" Category
I Didn’t Sign Up For This – I’m tired. Are you?
From National Catholic Register: I’m tired. Are you? We believers, Catholics, Protestant, Jewish and the rest, we are beleaguered. I don’t know about you, I am tired. I am tired of having to defend basic morality as if I am some fringe element. This is not what I signed up for. I am tired of [...]
Call for Spiritual Heroism: “This Day We Fight!”
(Part of the Church Militant Training Series. This follows from the post: Vince Lombardi and the Superior Ideal) It was on the gridiron in the 1960s that coach Vince Lombardi, fully grounded in this superior ideal, compelled his men to strive for greatness, never settling for second best. At the very same time, the Church Fathers [...]
Vince Lombardi and The Superior Ideal
(Part of the Church Militant Training Series. This follows from the post: Tim Tebow and the Warrior Ethos) Among the ways we have just let Coach Vince Lombardi inspire us, I want to focus on the most important one: He went to Mass and received Communion everyday of his life. Pope John Paul II said [...]
Tim Tebow and The Warrior Ethos
(This post is part of the series which began here, which will be called the Church Militant Training Series from this point on) I look at a man like Tim Tebow and I remember who I am. Why? Because Tebow refuses to deny who he is, or water it down so toe-in-the-water Christians can feel [...]
LOST GENERATIONS: Bishop Alexander Sample on the need for a renewal of orthodoxy
From the Catholic World Report: Bishop Alexander Sample, 50, is celebrating the fifth anniversary of his ordination and installation as bishop of Marquette, on Michigan’s upper peninsula. At the time of his episcopal ordination, he was the youngest Catholic bishop in the US, and the first to be born in the 1960s. Sample was born [...]
Bishop’s Column: The Beauty of our worship in the liturgy
From His Excellency Most Rev. Robert Morlino: Dear Friends, Clearly there has been much dialogue recently about our continuing liturgical renewal in the Diocese of Madison — this awareness has even risen to the international level. There was, in fact, a recent blog in Spain about our local matter. It is very difficult for me [...]
Notorious Rockford Abortion Mill License Suspended Indefinitely By The State Of Illinois!
Rockford, Il – (ProLifeCorner.com) – 9-30-2011 – by James – The Northern Illinois Women’s Center abortion mill in Rockford that is nationally known for the signs of racism and bigotry it has displayed and for the unsanitary conditions inside had its licenses indefinitely suspended by the Illinois Department of Public Health. According to the suspension notice [...]
Archbishop Dolan Warns Obama
From Creative Minority Report: Thems fighting words. And I’m likin’ it. Archbishop Timothy Dolan sent a pretty strongly worded letter to President Obama saying that unless this administration changes course quickly on the issue of religious freedom that the government is creating “a national conflict between Church and State of enormous proportions.” Wow. Let me [...]
Cardinal Burke’s Warning of Upcoming Persecution
I don’t know about you, but I am witnessing the beginnings of this persecution, BIG TIME! Watch this short video here. Yesterday’s Gospel heard our Lord warn, “Do not think that I have come to bring peace upon the earth. I have come to bring not peace but the sword. For I have come to set a man against [...]
True Soldiers in the Church Militant
Spiritual warfare in modern times The body of faithful which comprises the Catholic Church is divided into three parts: the Church Triumphant (souls in heaven), the Church Suffering (souls in purgatory) and the Church Militant (faithful on earth).1 The Church Militant has been defined as: “the Christian church on earth, which is supposed to be [...]
