The concept (of consistent life ethic) is a challenging one. It requires us to broaden, substantively and creatively, our ways of thinking, attitudes, and pastoral response. Many are not accustomed…
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St. Pius V Corner: Hodaka’s Prayer
There is no danger if our prayer is without words or reflection because the good success of prayer depends neither on words nor on study. It depends upon…
St. Pius V Corner: Romanticizing Evil
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St. Pius V Corner: Clout Cosplaying
Vainglory is the inordinate effort to manifest one’s own excellence, real or fictitious. It is called vain, because it is concerned either with things of small moment, such…
St. Pius V Corner: Maquia’s Admirable Heart
St. Augustine speaking to our Blessed Lady says, “You are worthy to be called the mould of God.” Mary is a mould capable of forming people into the…
St. Pius V Corner: Shoya Ishida’s Repentance
Be ashamed when you sin, don’t be ashamed when you repent. Sin is the wound; repentance is the medicine. Just as there are for the body wounds and…
St. Pius V Corner: Akko Contra Mundum
We conjure all Christians throughout the world to strive all they can to know their Redeemer as He really is… You must look upon it as a chief…
St. Pius V Corner: Kissing KissAnime Goodbye
Theft, as we have seen, is the secret taking away of what belongs to another, against their reasonable wish… The use of any unlawful dealing with the property…
St. Pius V Corner: Open-Air Ecumaniacs
And here it seems opportune to expound and to refute a certain false opinion… by which non-Catholics seek to bring about the union of the Christian churches… They…
St. Pius V Corner: Amakusa Shiro, The Martyr?
It is quite true that the enemy has never, and never will, prevail against the Church. He has, however, succeeded in wresting from her bosom many of her…
St. Pius V Corner: Where, Grave, Thy Victory
The perennial dispenser of light is the Christian Easter, ever since that fortunate dawn, prophesied and awaited for long centuries, which saw the night of the Passion transformed…
St. Pius V Corner: Little Custodians Of Tradition
What earlier generations held as sacred, remains sacred and great for us too, and it cannot be all of a sudden entirely forbidden or even considered harmful. It…
St. Pius V Corner: Ordinary Lives, Extraordinary Values
The Saints understood clearly what our attitudes to creatures should be. Created things should be a reflection of eternal beauty which entices us to love God, the Source…
St. Pius V Corner: Kissing Kissanime Goodbye, Reduxed
But let us suppose that the purely penal law would no longer be tenable. All positive laws then would bind in conscience… Laws regulating speed limits, parking, traffic,…
St. Pius V Corner: Kissing KissAnime Goodbye, Again
One must try to form a practically certain conscience, since it is never lawful to act with a practical doubt about the lawfulness of an action. A direct…
St. Pius V Corner: A False Scientific-Religious Dichotomy
Should a priest reject relativity because it contains no authoritative exposition on the doctrine of the Trinity? Once you realize that the Bible does not purport to be…
St. Pius V Corner: Violet Evergarden – By Penance Pacified
Penance is a needful thing to the sinner, who desires to recover health of his soul. And, in doing penance, there are three things to be considered: serious…
St. Pius V Corner: Fumino And The Catholic Stars
The holy council commands… that in accordance with the usage of the Catholic and Apostolic Church, received from the primitive times of the Christian religion, and with the…
St. Pius V Corner: The Concupiscence Of The Digidestined
It is likewise a matter of common experience that the passions are a source of many temptations and sins. Often they are antecedent (not premeditated or willed), as…
St. Pius V Corner: Sanctified In Truth… With Anime?
The function of all art lies in fact in breaking through the narrow and tortuous enclosure of the finite, in which man is immerged while living here below,…
St. Pius V Corner: Heavenly Treasures In Another Castle
Blessed are the eyes which are closed to things without, but are fixed upon things within… they who search inward things and study to prepare themselves more and…
St. Pius V Corner: Frieren And The Faithful Departed
We maintain, then, that we may pray for the faithful departed, and that the prayers and good works of the living greatly relieve them and are profitable to…
St. Pius V Corner: The Spiritual Warfare Of Shinji Ikari
Now, the more dearly a thing is loved according to nature, the more perfect it is to despise it, for the sake of Christ. Nothing is dearer to…
St. Pius V Corner: In Defense Of The Anime Avi
Now what can be more monstrous than to maintain that by losing all good they have become better? If, then, they are deprived of all good, they will…
St. Pius V Corner: The Digi-fied Pursuit Of Perfection
When a man’s intellect is constantly with God, his desire grows beyond all measure into an intense longing for God and his incisiveness is completely transformed into divi…
St. Pius V Corner: Freedom Of Insanity At Anime North
…a very bitter and fearsome war against the whole Catholic commonwealth is being stirred up by men bound together in a lawless alliance. These men do not preserve…
St. Pius V Corner: A Light Of Faith Against Modernism
The Catholic Church produces holy members in its saints and martyrs. In every age and country the Church is the Mother of saints, martyrs, confessors, and holy men and women who…
St. Pius V Corner – Fate, Free Will And Anime – Part #3
No one, moreover, so long as he is in this mortal life, ought so far to presume as regards the secret mystery of divine predestination, as to determine…
St. Pius V Corner: Fate, Free Will And Anime – Part #1
Thus man under the influence of efficacious grace remains free, although he never resists it; for it causes in him and with him even that he act freely;…
St. Pius V Corner: A Heart Full Of Goodness And Love
And so the Heart of our Savior reflects in some way the image of the divine Person of the Word and, at the same time, of His twofold…
St. Pius V Corner: A Healing Of Poor Souls And Self
The practice of recommending to God the souls in Purgatory, that He may mitigate the great pains which they suffer, and that He may soon bring them to…
St. Pius V Corner: Curious About The Divine Mysteries Of Life
God’s economy is directed toward a single end in each of these lives: our salvation and good repute. Even if it is divided in two with regard to…
St. Pius V Corner: An Unbloody Sacrifice Without A Divine Redeemer
Hence it is that Christ is not only God, but very God indeed – very God of very God, insomuch that He Himself is the Truth, If, then,…
St. Pius V Corner: Saving Souls, One Deed At A Time
The Dogma of Purgatory is too much forgotten by the majority of the faithful; the Church Suffering, where they have so many brethren to succour, whither they foresee…
St. Pius V Corner: Fate, Free Will And Anime – Part #2
Three knowledges may be distinguished in God:… the third is middle knowledge which deals with the hypothetical or conditional future…. [it is] proper to Molinism; by virtue of…
St. Pius V Corner – Fate, Free Will, And Anime – Part 4
No one, however weak, is denied a share in the victory of the cross. No one is beyond the help of the prayer of Christ. His prayer brought…
St. Pius V Corner: A Rosary At Bay Keeps Evil Away
The Holy Rosary, besides, not only serves admirably to overcome the enemies of God and Religion, but is also a stimulus and spur to the practice of evangelic…
St. Pius V Corner: The Last Confession On Earth (Before Eternal Life)
The just man awaits death, prepares himself for it by vigilance, above all by a reverent fear, recalling his past sins and considering the expiations that are to…
St. Pius V Corner: As Long As You Remember Him, You Are Not Alone
Christ is present at the august sacrifice of the altar both in the person of His minister, and above all under the Eucharistic species. He is present in…
The Castle Conundrum
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Ethical consumption and Hogwarts Legacy
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