Institute of Catholic Culture

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Living Catholic Sep 17, 2011

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"The development of culture imposes on those who carry out the ministry of the Word, at various levels, to be well prepared. Hence I exhort all, pastors and laity, to cultivate this 'cultural dimension' of faith, so that the beauty of the Christian truth can be better understood and faith can be truly nourished, reinforced and also defended."

- Pope Benedict XVI

Roots of Immorality - Part Two Sep 11, 2011

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In the year 1930 the Archbishop of Canterbury convened the decennial conference of the Anglican Communion in the city of Lambeth. What followed would lead to the moral collapse of the Church of England and the eventual splintering of the Anglican Communion.

Roots of Immorality - Part One Sep 10, 2011

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Vatican I and Vatican II - Part Two Aug 25, 2011

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"The conciliar definitions on the Bishop of Rome’s mission must be understood and explained in the light of … Christian tradition. It should be kept in mind that the traditional language used by the councils, especially the First Vatican Council, in regard to the powers of both the Pope and the bishops, uses terms proper to the world of civil law, which in this case must be given their correct ecclesial meaning."

- Pope John Paul II, General Audience, Feb. 24, 1993

The Errors of Modernism Aug 21, 2011

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“It must be confessed that the number of the enemies of the cross of Christ has in these last days increased exceedingly, who are striving, by arts, entirely new and full of subtlety, to destroy the vital energy of the Church, and, if they can, to overthrow utterly Christ’s kingdom itself.”

- Pope St. Pius X

Vatican I and Vatican II - Part One Aug 18, 2011

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- Pope John Paul II, General Audience, Feb. 24, 1993

C.S. Lewis' The Screwtape Letters - Part Two Aug 07, 2011

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"Indeed the safest road to hell is the gradual one–the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts."

- C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

C.S. Lewis' The Screwtape Letters - Part One Jul 31, 2011

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"Indeed the safest road to hell is the gradual one–the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts."

- C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

The Council of Trent, the Reformation, and the Mass - Part Three Jun 30, 2011

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“The Mass is the greatest blasphemy of God, and the highest idolatry upon earth, an abomination the like of which has never been in Christendom since the time of the Apostles.”

- Martin Luther

In the year 1517, a young Augustinian monk by the name of Martin Luther nailed his 95 Theses to the door of the castle church at Wittenburg, protesting certain teachings and practices of the Catholic Church and sparking a revolution within the heart of Christendom. At the center of Luther’s heresy was his rejection of the Catholic Mass.

The Council of Trent, the Reformation, and the Mass - Part Two Jun 23, 2011

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“The Mass is the greatest blasphemy of God, and the highest idolatry upon earth, an abomination the like of which has never been in Christendom since the time of the Apostles.”

- Martin Luther