Blog Archives - ROBERT E DUNN

yoked

10/31/2022

“A profound irony here is that the Catholic commitment to health care grounded in the essential dignity of every human being has traditionally been cast as part of the religion’s commitment to ‘social justice,’ a term that has yoked significant numbers of Catholics to left-wing politics for decades.

“Now that same commitment, which derives its meaning and purpose from God and natural law, is running afoul of contemporary left-wing sensibilities, which exalt sexual libertinism and its consequences (including but not limited to abortion) above almost all other human activity or concern.”

The article, written by Laura Hollis and titled, “The attack on Catholic hospitals and secularization of health care”, is dated October 27, 2022.

https://www.wnd.com/2022/10/attack-catholic-hospitals-secularization-health-care/

Laura hits the nail on the head. Many Catholics and hospital nuns are still yoked.

trans vs girl

10/31/2022

These are minors. At the school where I worked, a woman walked into the bathroom, and I thought I was in the wrong bathroom. I can deal with it, but no 14-year-old should be under this kind of pressure. School is for learning reading, writing, and math, etcetera, and that's enough pressure.

ghosts

10/31/2022

Christopher Lee (1922-2015) starred in B-movies and famously played Dracula. Happy Halloween. Lee identified as an Anglo-Catholic. After WWII he was a server at St Stephen’s in South Kensington, London, during the time T.S. Eliot (1888-1965) was a parishioner there. Lee supported the Conservative Party. According to Aquinas, ghosts are saints, the souls in Purgatory, or even the damned if God permits. Jews acknowledged them. I haven’t seen a ghost. All Saints Day tomorrow.
https://aleteia.org/2021/10/31/why-do-ghosts-rarely-visit-us/

moi?

10/31/2022

when I was young with my ma at Yellowstone

I'm good by bebe

10/31/2022

trending on pop radio, remake of I'm Blue

remarkables

10/31/2022

This is the second time. I like reminders on historical dates (always did); they place us in history.

The cross represents date of death, and the red drop of blood represents a martyr’s death.

nigerian priest

10/30/2022

From left to right, Fr. Angelo Van de Putten, FSSP, Fr. Anthony Sumich, FSSP, Fr. Charles Ike, FSSP, and Fr. Evaristus Eshiowu, FSSP. I met Fr. Ike today at St. Stephen, Sacramento, CA. He is visiting from Nigeria. Fr. Eshiowu, also born in Nigeria, is assigned to St. Stephen. The photo, snapped at the time of Ike’s ordination, is courtesy of the Latin Mass Society, Wrexham, Wales.

From their blog: “… members of the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter [FSSP] do not take religious vows. However, at the priest’s ordination, he solemnly promises to obey his Ordinary, or Ecclesiastical Superior. For the FSSP priest this means he must obey his FSSP Superior in matters regarding the internal life and discipline of the Fraternity – and the Diocesan Bishop in other matters regarding the apostolate where he is assigned.

“Each member incardinated in the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter also has a solemn obligation to preserve perpetual celibacy, the same as other priests in the Latin Rite of the Church. In addition, each member must strive to practice the spirit of poverty according to the Constitutions. Thus, the priest’s salary is quite modest, and he strives to live simply, detached from worldly comforts and possessions.”

In 2021, there were 526 members: 341 priests, 17 deacons (last step before ordination), and 168 seminarians. The priests are spread across 147 dioceses in Australia, Austria, Benin, Canada, Colombia, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Great Britain, Ireland, Italy, Mexico, Nigeria, Poland, Switzerland, the United States, and Viet Nam. The fraternity's membership represents 35 nationalities, and the average age is 38. The lay Confraternity of Saint Peter has over 8,000 members. We support the fraternity in a variety of ways.

The 168 will be in high demand as you can see by the spread. St. Stephen Sacramento is 1,500 strong. Math estimate - 1,500 x 147 = 221,026/526 = 420. That figure, one priest for 420 people, is on the low side and makes Francis' attempt to suppress and halt the spread of traditional orders evil.

room in heaven

10/30/2022

It’s hard to imagine what heaven is like. Read Jimmy Akin, convert and theologian at Catholic Answers. He refers to Scripture and the Catechism. Jimmy looks like a crazy nut, but, actually, he is very sensible, perceptive, and read. I just wait my time.
https://www.catholic.com/magazine/print-edition/what-is-heaven-really-like
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrnSxYyG2ZE John Field

room for rent

10/29/2022

“Some animal cried out in the night outside.” Realism. Listen all the way to the end.

artists & musicians

10/29/2022

Here is a link to Catholic artists and musicians currently working. I know one of them. The directory includes bookbinders and illustrators, and one does illustrations to enhance works of literature. https://catholicartistsdirectory.com

mueller rallies laity

10/29/2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8PG6B2FUKQ

college admissions

10/29/2022

The Supreme Court will hear arguments on Monday regarding college race-based admissions related to the University of North Carolina and Harvard. Beverly A. Pekala@Pekalalaw states: “In polling by Pew Research, 75% of Americans, incl. majorities of every racial group, say race/ethnicity should not be factors in admissions.” For the sake of all the students I have tutored, I oppose race-based admissions. One of my students is the subject of research on brain development conducted by Stanford University Medicine. His parents are keeping me informed.

rainbow

10/28/2022

Mauna Kea rainbow - photo sent by my sister and taken by her friend

politics and catholics

10/28/2022

Catholics who think of themselves as moderate to conservative and attend the 1962 Missal Latin Mass as I do are not fascists or extremists. My own inclination toward monarchy, which is not shared by many, is a complex subject involving imagery and stability, and I don’t see any good monarchs around, so I will put that topic aside. I think I can safely describe myself and other Latin Mass goers as realists.

For Catholic Americans like me there is a fair amount of prejudice that comes from purist protestants or from secularists, or as a result of plain old ignorance or disinterest, and that includes modern Mass goers. Many people make assumptions about me.

I make assumptions, but they arise from the Judeo-Christian ethic and its fulfillment in Catholicism, which does not change. One might say that great people, writers and thinkers, musicians and artists, saints and otherwise, help it “mature”.

That’s the beauty of what I received from the God-Man, and a few people were all He needed to help me out along the way, including the move from the modern Mass to the Latin Mass in 2020.

nth root

10/28/2022

Alon Amit, PhD in Mathematics and Mathcircler, gives a fantastic answer to the following question: What is the practical usefulness of learning the Nth root of a number? My soon-to-be 7th grade son asked me: If I/we could think of good reasons for finding 2nd and 3rd root but not the Nth. Any good explanations? Alon relates his math to the piano and a bicycle wheel. Interested? Read the deal … Quora.
https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-practical-usefulness-of-learning-the-Nth-root-of-a-number

forbes speaks

10/28/2022

That's the Twitter lobby on Market Street in San Francisco where Musk is carrying a sink. Symbolic?

patrone

10/27/2022

I’m adopting a new patron, Robert Southwell, SJ (1561-1595). He was a poet-martyr and came from a distinguished family, some of whom knew Shakespeare. He boarded at the English College at Douay and studied at the Jesuit College of Anchin, both of which were associated with the University of Douay. With Rheims, Douay produced the first English Bible. There have been other notable Roberts in history, none I can think of in American history, except Robert Frost. The Jesuits of today can claim Southwell as one of their own no longer. They no more resemble him than a sling shot resembles a patrone.

Patrone 88; clip for the Mauser Rifle 88 (WWI); 9 September 2011; author RidgebackAttack
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Clip_Mauser_Gewehr_88.jpg

evil vatican

10/27/2022

Please look at the EWTN IN SCHISM post again. When you listen to Anthony read the words of the Vatican man, who is Italian, you know he is playing hardball. The words sound all nice, biblical, and Catholic. They are not. The men in the Vatican love power and want obedience and will get it any way possible. Pope Francis is one of them and is to be resisted at all costs. All men and women of this type are to be resisted wherever they are, and whatever the cost might be, but if you think I’m out, you would be wrong. My FSSP parish will have my financial support, no one else. I advise Catholics to stop writing checks as the loyal opposition.

going green failures

10/26/2022

One Euro is about one dollar. Distillery/refinery - OMV refinery at Schwechat.

farming

10/26/2022

I know a walnut farmer and a bean farmer in the area of Colusa, CA, and they take good care of their land because livelihoods are at stake.

mourners at my wake

10/26/2022

piano competitions

10/26/2022

I agree with Robert. One commenter said that winning the hearts of the audience is more important. The student I tutor in writing is very gifted, and he knows it, but I am not there to change him. I want him to be himself and pursue success his way.

dollfuss

10/26/2022

Pictures sent to me by Dr. Josef Ketzer, Vienna, my friend and tutor. The pictures are of Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuß, 1892-1934. Joe lamented, “A very fine painting of ‘Hero Chancellor’ or ‘Martyr Chancellor’, as he was sometimes called, hung until a few years ago in the parliamentary office of the Austrian People’s Party and now hangs in the provincial museum of Lower Austria in her capital of St. Pölten, named after a rather unknown Saint Hippolyt.”

Wikipedia on the Austrian People’s Party: “The ÖVP … has also been described as a catch-all party of the center-right … For most of its existence, the ÖVP has explicitly defined itself as Catholic and anti-anarchist, anti-communist, anti-socialist and anti-liberal, with the ideals of subsidiarity as defined by the encyclical Quadragesimo anno and decentralization.”

Dollfuss, trained in law at the University of Vienna and in economics at the University of Berlin, opposed Nazism, communism, and socialism. His widow, Alwine (d. 1973), and two surviving children, Eva (d. 1993) and Rudolph (d. 2011), fled to Switzerland after his murder. For more about the Austrian Heimwehr, see
https://www.jstor.org/stable/259652

ewtn in schism

10/25/2022

Who is Arroyo? Fox News contributor and host on EWTN. Who is Schneider? Auxiliary bishop of Astana, Kazakhstan, which used to be part of the former Soviet Union. He ordained Father Curtis, pastor, St. Stephen, Sacramento. Who is Anthony Stine? https://www.crisismagazine.com/author/anthony-stine

EWTN doesn’t do enough investigative reporting. Francis and his sycophants want the Catholic Church to be a co-player in step with all the other world players, and there is a long list of them: Biden, Pelosi, Soros, Gates, and more. Faithful Catholics want the Church to be The Player - The Authority, so far as God wills it, and so we resist modernism. We dislike the cronyism in the Vatican and USCCB, too.

Traditionalist-Trady-Trad
These are popular labels, but I do not want them for myself. I'm not into labels. Nevertheless, they signify something important. Francis and his ilk reject the traditions at the heart of the faith, just as all the other dissenters in history did.

The beautiful Latin Mass, which is at least 1,700 years old, is merely representative of what he is attempting to wipe out. I knew down deep that when the modern Mass was introduced in 1969, something was wrong.

I and others have reported on the statistics. Polls show that in the modern Mass community, well under 30% go to Mass every week, while in the Latin Mass community, 99%, which is basically 100%, go every week. All Catholics know that missing Mass on Sunday is a mortal sin. Third Commandment. Does Francis care if people go to Hell?

four of the best

10/25/2022

Fathers Curtis, McWhirter, Braun (with Joseph, one of 110 altar boys), and Eshiowu