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28

Scientific Conference Refuting Evolution Theory to be held in Rome

October 28, 2009 | 2 Comments

Press release from the sponsors:
Scientific Conference Refuting Evolution Theory to be held in Rome, Italy
The Scientific Impossibility of Evolution
November 9, 2009 9:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. St. Pius V University (Rome)
In Response to Pope Benedict XVI’s Call for Both Sides to be Heard

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – OCTOBER 16, 2009

CONTACT: H. M. OWEN [...]

Oct

24

Anglicans? Say Rather They Are Catholics!

October 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment

Here come the Anglicans! And it’s a good thing.
When England was evangelized, it was explicitly and directly a papal project, the inspiration of Pope Saint Gregory the Great, who sent his fellow Italian, Saint Augustine, to do the job. This was after a providential misadventure trying to go there himself. For the rest of time, [...]

Oct

23

Hope in God, not the World; Spe Salvi

October 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment

(Originally published December 06th, 2007)
The Holy Father’s latest encyclical, Spe Salvi, was published on Friday, the Feast of Saint Andrew. Releasing it as he did just before Advent, the Pope Benedict seems to be consciously presenting us with an Advent theme. This is appropriate enough, for Advent is the season of hope par excellence. Some [...]

Oct

15

Concerning Palantíri and Blogses: Technology without Grace

October 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment

A recent news story from the Los Angeles Times tells of a multi-level tragedy that reveals once again the the depravity of fallen human nature in its technologically-enhanced destructive ugliness. In brief, a teenage girl who was subject to depression was befriended by a sixteen-year-old boy online. After the six-week Internet friendship had developed to [...]

Oct

1

Saint Josaphat, Apostle of Eastern Catholic Unity

October 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment

Some years ago, Brother Francis wrote an article combining the history of today’s saint with that of Saint Andrew Bobola: Two Patrons for True Ecumenism. Towards the end of that article is an excerpt from Abbot Guéranger’s Liturgical Year. These brief prophetical utterances are worth pondering in our days, when the Moslem menace is such [...]

Oct

1

A Great Man Has Died: Brother Francis, M.I.C.M. (Fakhri B. Maluf, Ph.D.)

October 1, 2009 | 1 Comment

This is a small tribute to my recently-deceased superior, mentor, father, and friend, Brother Francis. As our Byzantine brethren say, “May his memory live in eternity!“
Brother Francis was born, in the town of Mashrah, Lebanon, about thirty miles from Beirut, in 1913. His given name was Fakhri Boutros Maluf. The Maluf family is descended from [...]