Tag: Catholicism
‘Ye Wife Swapping Sodomites!’ E Michael Jones’ and ‘Degenerate Moderns’
"Hither flock all the crowd whom love has wrecked Of intellectuals without intellect And sexless folk whose sexes intersect...." - Roy Campbell, 'The Georgiads' Introduction “G’way, ye wife swapping sodomites.” - Úna Bean Mhic Mhathúna The mere mention of Dr....
On St. Patrick and the Irish: Hilaire Belloc
The following is an extract from Hilaire Belloc's 1911 work "First and Last" on the conversion of the Irish and legacy of St. Patrick. If there is one thing that people who are not Catholic have gone wrong upon more...
‘Calvary’ As A Critique Of Irish Society
Father James Lavelle (Brendan Gleeson) is a likable, down to earth ‘good priest’. The film opens with a scene at a confession booth, where an anonymous parishioner details disturbingly the sexual abuse inflicted on him by a priest as a child. The...
Latin Mass Suppressed in Cork Under Bishop’s Orders
Long a rumour but recently actualised, Leeside tradcaths awoke to news that the traditional Latin Rite is to be suppressed per orders from the Bishop’s Palace this week. A buoyant faith community built up between Saint Mary’s Dominican Priory and...
An Alternative Hate Speech Submission
The following was submitted two years ago as part of the Department of Justice's consultation process on the implementation of hate speech laws and is syndicated with the permission of the author. I would like to make a submission to...
Young Catholics Object to Irish Synod Findings
The ongoing Irish Synod is presenting itself as an opening for liberal lobbies within and without the Church to gain traction for long-envisioned ecclesiastical and catechetical reforms. The Irish wing of a worldwide consultation of the faithful, as well as...
The Greasy Till: DP Moran, Yeats and Ireland’s Emergent Catholic Bourgeoisie
Introduction “As regards Ireland, our feelings were curious… We intended as good Protestants and Loyalists to keep the papists under our feet. We impoverished them, though we loved them, and their religion by its doctrine of submission and obedience unintentionally...
St. Teresa’s: What Led to a Dublin Church Flying the LGBT Flag
Last year The Burkean covered the flying of and the subsequent controversy around the raising of a LGBT flag to mark the month of Pride at a Ballyfermot church. Contravening stipulations allowing only the tricolour and Vatican flag to be...
Ancient Order of Hibernians Returns to Armagh
Armagh for those not familiar is a quaint town (no urban area with a population of 10,000 should be described as a city), the reported burial place of Brian Boru. The seat of the Primate of All Ireland, the county...
Whatever Happened to National Catholicism?
Though the recent death of Carmelite nun Sr Mary Kevin O'Higgins ends another living link to the revolutionary period, it does help us underscore still-relevant networking patterns. Maev O'Higgins was born in Government Buildings (now the Department of the Taoiseach),...