The Body of Christ is the entirety of human being, the entirety of a community including both individuals and lesser communities which is Christian civilization, I also claim the Catholic Church to be the central organ of the Body of Christ, not the whole ball of wax. To all appearances, the various Christian churches participate … [Read more…]
Col Pat Lang (ret), a Green Beret and military intelligence officer, has written another of many short and authoritative commentaries on the current messes which are the US civilian government and US military. Of the two, the military seems to be the far lesser mess, even to the point of being reformable so long as … [Read more…]
In his spiritual biography of John Henry Newman, The Spiritual Journey of Newman, Fr Jean Honore (a future cardinal and Archbishop and member of the committee which supervised the writing of the Catechism of the Catholic Church) told us that Newman had seen the problems the Church (and all Christian churches—in my opinion) was having … [Read more…]