22 February 2013

Forward Boldly Radio

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Episodes
1. Forward Boldly Debut, 9/8/12
2. Interview with Louie Verrecchio, Religious Liberty and Traditional Church Teaching, 9/15/12
3. Interview with Fr. Vincent Lampert, Exorcist, 9/22/12
4. Interview with Damian Goddard, Marriage Anti-Defamation Alliance, 9/29/12
5. Interview with Abby Johnson, The Pro-Life Movement and Planned Parenthood, 10/8/12
6. Interview with Michael Hichborn, ReformCCHDNow Coalition, 10/13/12
7. Interview with Elena Maria Vidal, Marie-Antoinette and the French Revolution, 10/20/12
8. Louie Verrecchio, My Father in the Mirror, 10/27/12
9. Interview with Randy Engel, Homosexualist Collective in the Church, 11/3/12
10. Interview with George Neumayr, Obama & the Church, 11/10/12
11. Interview with Austin Ruse, C-FAM, 11/19/12
12. Interview with Stephanie Mann, English Reformation, 12/1/12
13. Interview with Dr. Monica Miller, Abandoned: The Untold Stories of the Abortion Wars, 12/8/12
14. Interview with Steve Mosher, Population Research Institute, Dec. 22, 2012
15. Interview with Reggie Littlejohn, Women's Rights Without Frontiers, Jan. 5, 2013
16. Interview with Charles Coulombe, Puritan's Empire, Jan. 26, 2013
17. Interview with Fr. Paul Nicholson, The Priesthood and the Mass, Feb. 2, 2013
18. Interview with Dr. Ralph Martin, Will Many Be Saved? Feb. 8, 2013
19. Panel Discussion with Fr. Paul Nicholson & Louie Verrecchio, Papal Abdication, Feb. 16, 2013
20. Interview with Fr. Michael Rodriguez, Feb. 23, 2013
21. Interview with Dr. Joseph Pearce, Catholic Allegory in The Lord of the Rings, Mar. 9, 2013
22. Interview with Dr. John Zmirak, Mar. 16, 2013
23. Interview with Phill Kline, Planned Parenthood Corruption in Kansas, March 30, 2013
24. Interview with Matthew Arnold on Our Lady of Good Success, Apr. 6, 2013
25. Interview with George Neumayr, US Bishops and Their Response to the Gay Movement, Apr. 13, 2013
26. Interview with Christopher Ferrara, Liberty: The God that Failed, Apr. 20, 2013
27. Interview with Fr. Peter West, Human Life International, May 11, 2013
28. Open Mic! With Christine Niles, co-host Terry Carroll, and Fr. John Fisher, May 18, 2013
29. Interview with Fr. Paul Check, Courage Apostolate, June 1, 2013,
30. Julie's Story: From the Gay Lifestyle to Chastity, June 8, 2013
31. Replay: Dr. Monica Miller, Abandoned: The Untold Story of the Abortion Wars, original air date 12/8/12
32. Interview with Dr. Peter Kleponis, Pornography, June 22, 2013
33. Interview with Fr. Gary Thomas, Exorcist (THE RITE), June 29, 2013
34. Interview with Michael Hichborn on Catholic Charities, July 13, 2013
35. Interview with Matthew Arnold, The TLM & NO Mass; A History of the Holy Grail, July 20, 2013
36. Open Mic with Terry Carroll (ChurchMilitant.TV) & Fr. John Fisher (ROMANUS CONTRA MUNDUM), July 27, 2013
37. Interview with Kim Ketola, Healing After Abortion, August 3, 2013
38. Interview with Jonathan V. Last, What to Expect When No One's Expecting, Date TBA
39. Interview with Charles Coulombe, Date TBA
40. Interview with Dr. Judith Reisman, The Truth About Alfred Kinsey, Date TBA

20 February 2013

Musings on the Way to Moutier

Fresh from the little town of Undervelier in the midst of his pilgrimage on foot to Rome, Hilaire Belloc found himself on a ridge occupied by a few little cottages.

When I got to the top of the ridge there was a young man chopping wood outside a house, and I asked him in French how far it was to Moutier. He answered in German, and I startled him by a loud cry, such as sailors give when they see land, for at last I had struck the boundary of the languages, and was with pure foreigners for the first time in my life. I also asked him for coffee and as he refused it I took him to be a heretic and went down the road making up verses against all such, and singing them loudly through the forest that now arched over me and grew deeper as I descended. 

And my first verse was-- 


           Heretics all, whoever you may be,

           In Tarbes or Nîmes, or over the sea,
          You never shall have good words from me.
          Caritas non conturbat me.

If you ask why I put a Latin line at the end, it was because I had to show that it was a song connected with the Universal Fountain and with European culture, and with all that Heresy combats. I sang it to a lively hymn-tune that I had invented for the occasion.

I then thought what a fine fellow I was, and how pleasant were my friends when I agreed with them. I made up this second verse, which I sang even more loudly than the first; and the forest grew deeper, sending back echoes--

          But Catholic men that live upon wine
          Are deep in the water, and frank, and fine;
          Wherever I travel I find it so,
          Benedicamus Domino.

There is no doubt, however, that if one is really doing a catholic work, and expressing one's attitude to the world, charity, pity, and a great sense of fear should possess one, or, at least, appear. So I made up this third verse and sang it to suit--

          On childing women that are forlorn,
          And men that sweat in nothing but scorn:
          That is on all that ever were born,
          Miserere Domine.

Then, as everything ends in death, and as that is just what Heretics least like to be reminded of, I ended thus--

          To my poor self on my deathbed,
          And all my dear companions dead,
          Because of the love that I bore them,
          Dona Eis Requiem.

~Path to Rome, pp.87-88