The Anti-Modernist

You can observe on any given day people travelling to work. Men are dressed smartly on the subway or transit lines. Their shirts nicely ironed and pants creased. Women are dressed much the same. They have on some respectable garb, perhaps a blouse and skirt or a smart business suit. I know as I travel to work, I often look with admiration at my fellow travellers. They have taken such great pains to prepare themselves for their daily toil. I believe the same can be said with people travelling to an important meeting or event. One may even say that people can be seen wearing their best clothes. If one were going to meet the Prime Minister or the President, I think this would be especially true. How is then that when we go to meet the Master of all Creation the same regard is not given? People seem to take such great cares impressing the world, but when they approach the Lord in the Holy Mass, they seem to forget who He is. Where is the reverence? How can one show so much attention...

There are some in our modern society who would propose the notion that everyone has the right to marriage. They would further expound that marriage is nothing but contract between two people, governed by the state. It is often times these same advocates who propose that homosexuals have the right to marriage. However, I beg to differ from this line of thought. Marriage is much more than a mere contract, and it is much more than an expression of love. Marriage is a covenant and its love is that of creator and created, and that of life-giving love shared between spouses. As Christians, we must realize that marriage is most undoubtly between a man and a woman and cannot be dissolved, for the bible states: For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife, and the two shall be in one flesh. What, therefore, God hath joined together, let no man put asunder. (Mt. 19:5-6) From Matthew, we can see that God has made man for woman and woman for man. Man an...

14. Now, the training of youth most conducive to the defense of true faith and religion and to the preservation of morality must find its beginning from an early stage within the circle of home life; and this family Christian training sadly undermined in these our times, cannot possibly be restored to its due dignity, save by those laws under which it was established in the Church by her Divine Founder Himself. Our Lord Jesus Christ, by raising to the dignity of a sacrament the contract of matrimony, in which He would have His own union with the Church typified, not only made the marriage tie more holy, but, in addition, provided efficacious sources of aid for parents and children alike, so that, by the discharge of their duties one to another, they might with greater ease attain to happiness both in time and in eternity. But when impious laws, setting at naught the sanctity of this great sacrament, put it on the same footing of mere civil contracts, the lamentable result followed, tha...