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St. Pius V Corner: The Courage To Preserve Our Faith
For the Church, since it contains all nations in its embrace, since it is going to endure until the consummation of the ages, and since it utterly excludes…
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: 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: Romanticizing Evil
These considerations take on greater seriousness from the fact that the cinema speaks not to individuals but to multitudes, and that it does so in circumstances of time…
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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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…
A leap of faith – Spring 2021 Anticipation!
Well, it’s that time again… Winter is fading and Spring approaches. There’s shows I’m sad to see go, shows I’m glad to be rid of. And there’s also…
The Anti-Modernist Academia #7: High Guardians Of Modernism
You know, I’ve always been a doubting St. Thomas kind of person – at least when it comes to things material. When someone makes a claim regarding X,…
Drowning in Faith
If the world around you was empty and dead, what would lead you to carry on anyway? Angel’s Egg (Tenshi no Tamago) is a 1985 anime film from Mamoru…
Date A Live V
Majihiku wa? Oh well. This is it. The final stretch. After dating and conquering the Spirits to seal their powers, it all boils down to this. Date A…
Psycho Pass s3 ep5 – Leap of Faith
I say this every week and every week I fail, still I’m going to try to keep this post to a reasonable size. At least on my part.…
A Touch of Darkness by Scarlett St. Clair Book Review
I was pulled in again to another Hades and Persephone retelling. I just can’t stay away. A Touch of Darkness takes the myths and legends of these two…
OtakuGeneration (Show #416) Faith
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Anime Corner: Ascendance of a Bookworm Review
Can I just say, as a fully confessed bibliophile, a world without books is the scariest thing I have ever heard of. What’s the Story? Motosu Urano loved…
Codename: Sailor V 2 – More Light-Hearted Mahou Shoujo Hijinks
This is the final volume of the two part omnibus edition of Codename: Sailor V. Like with volume 1, this manga features a few colour pages at the…
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Evangelist are getting in on the free for all and things are really heating up! Heating up! Get it? Cause Fire Force. I'm so proud!
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The Day I Became a God – 01 (First Impressions) – O Ye of Chibi Faith
From Maeda Jun and Key (Air, Clannad, Angel Beats!, Charlotte) comes a new show with a wonderfully simple premise. Ordinary high school senior Narukami Youta encounters a little…
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