Here is where you can find recent site news, announcements,
and a listing of the the things that have been most recently added
(using the site
map and site
search features can help you find things you might not have seen
before, too).
Of course, the content of the Discussion
Forum changes all the time. Check there for discussion, news links,
and other frequently updated fresh content. Note that the discussion
forum has its own search engine.
Added a page about making things easy on your family in the
case of your death: Being Catholic > Preparing for Death: Pragmatic Concerns
Added graphics for people to use to make Jesse Trees: Being
Catholic > Seasonal Customs > Jesse
Trees
A page
about "getting back to the real" has been added. You can find it here:
Being Catholic > Rebuilding: What We Must Do > Rebuilding: Getting Back
to the Real
Betrothal: Getting Engaged
has been added to the Being Catholic area
A page on growing old has
been added to the Being Catholic area.
Made my own map of the collect and station churches (that
took forever!). See it here: Station
Churches
Two new
"Nonna's Books" are up, this time on phonics.
Read about (and get them) on the Nonna's
Books page.
A new page has been added to the "Rebuilding:
What We Must Do" sub-section off the "Being
Catholic" area of the site. It's a little reverie about my dream
parish: Rebuilding: A Dream
Parish.
Pope Leo XIII's
encyclical on socialism added to the For
Catholics section
Novenas to St. Thomas Aquinas and in preparation for Good
Friday added to novenas page
A page on "Gratitude" has been
added to the Being Catholic section.
A page on "Adverting to God:
Making Life a Prayer" has been added to the Being Catholic section.
A little section about acquiring the natural virtues has
been
added: Being Catholic
> Becoming Virtuous
Mp3 files of Old Time Radio shows have been added to the page on Hallowe'en
More books added to the Catholic Library.
Page about the Four Last Things added to the Being Catholic
area: Being Catholic
> Last Things: Death, Judgment, Heaven,
and Hell
Ludwig Ott's "Fundamentals of Catholic Dogma" added to the Being Catholic
>
Catholic Library.
New page added to the new sub-section mentioned just below: Being Catholic
> Rebuilding: What We Need to Do >
Rebuilding: Forming
Traditional Catholic Communities
I'm adding a new sub-section to the "Being Catholic" area of
the site. It will be focused on what we need to know and do to get on
with the restoration of Christendom. As I've gotten older, writing's
been coming to me a lot more slowly, so be patient. For now, there's
only one page in this sub-section. It's an open letter to young people,
and it can be found here: Being Catholic
> Rebuilding: What We Need to Do >
Rebuilding: An
Open Letter to Young People
Novenas to SS. John the Baptist, Gabriel, and Raphael, along
with the 9-Hour Novena, have been added to the Novenas
page
Dr. Jordan Peterson's Biblical Series, a study of Scripture
(for now, just parts of the Old Testament) from a secular,
psychological point of view, has been added to the library here (in mp3
format)
Not a Catholic addition, but one just for fun: "The Cinnamon
Bear" Advent radio series has been added off the Advent Calendars page:
Being Catholic > Seasonal Customs > Advent Calendars > The Cinnamon Bear
A great ommission has been dealt with: the Feast of St. Agatha has been added to the
Seasonal Customs area
All 8 volumes of Cornelius à Lapide's Great
Commentary on the Gospels, John's Epistles, I and II Corinthians, and
Galatians added to the Catholic Library
A page about "Toxic Traddism" off the Being Catholic
sub-section.
A page on the Rorate Masses of Advent. You'll find it here:
FishEaters > Being Catholic > Seasonal Customs > Rorate Masses
Wrote up "The
Life of St. Martin" by Sulpicius Severus in pdf format, linked to from the Martinmas page, and
stored in this site's Catholic Library.
In
response to a question on Twitter about how to become a Catholic, I
made a page that answers that question: How
to Become a Catholic, off the Being Catholic section of the site.
I spent a lot of time writing a book for Catholic children.
It's "Nonna's Book of Moral Virtues," and it's meant to be read by
parents to and with their children. It contains lessons on the Four
Cardinal Virtues and each of their associated virtues. Each virtue
(except one) is illustrated by fairy tales, stories from the Bible,
Aesop's fables, etc., and the book includes games, activities,
questions for parents and their children to discuss, and more. You'll
find it for free, in pdf format, here.
Beefed
up The Book of Nature page,
adding a bit
about the findings of quantum physics and what they mean, and added
even more books to the library (a
ton more).
More
books added to the Catholic Library
Added a page,
off the "Being Catholic" section, about the Christian concept of "the
Book of Nature": The Book of Nature
Added mp3 files
of what I think are all of the Art Bell-Malachi Martin and Bernard
Janzen-Malachi Martin interviews. You'll find these in the Catholic Library area,
along with more added books.
Lots of
tweaking, mostly to beef up sections on Septuagesima and Lent; more
books added to the Catholic Library;
a new page on the Feast of St. Peter's
Chains (Lammas); and, just for fun, a page, off the Catholic Moral Theology page, with a
mnemonic device to remember the Seven Deadly Sins: Gilligan's Island and the Seven Deadlies
I'd taken down
this "What's New?" page, but have gotten a request
to re-add it. Since the time I've taken it down, I've added lots of
things, but likely won't be able to remember them all. Among the new
things I can remember are these pages: The
Eucharistic Miracle of Lanciano; The
Feast of St. Andrew; Spiritual
Bouquets; The Three Hail Marys
Devotion; The Widow's Mite; Retreats; Processions;
Station Churches; Doctors of the Church; Using and Buying a Missal; La Mano Poderosa; Our
Lady of Guadalupe and the Tilma of St. Juan Diego; The
Logos, the Transcendentals, and Sanity; Chaplets (can you believe I never had a page
on chaplets until recently?); The
Spanish Inquisition; Mystery, Miracle, and
Morality Plays, Catholic
Social Teaching; Mass Intentions;
Spreading the Gift
Around: Evangelizing; and more. Many, many books and texts have been
added to the Catholic Library
(including Aquinas's Catena Aurea
-- all of it!), much has been added to the Jewish-Catholic
Relations sub-section, etc. In addition, I am constantly tweaking, changing art,
adding art, adding little bits -- or big chunks -- of information to
already existing pages, doing things like making sure MP3 files have
replaced midi files for all the hymns and Christmas carols, etc. A
Twitter feed has been added to the bottom of the Discussion Forum
pages to try to stimulate conversation there. I will try to keep this
"What's New?" page up, but, then again,
I might forget about it...
I've
added a page on trusting God. You can find it here: Index
> Being Catholic > Trusting in God
In
the Being Catholic section, I've added a very basic primer on
Catholic moral theology. It's here: Index
> Being Catholic > Moral Thinking:
A Basic Primer on Catholic Moral Theology
We
have a new page, a long one, for adults only, on dealing
with homosexuality. You can find it here: Index
> Being Catholic > Dealing With
Homosexuality
A
new little sub-section is up, this one on the Zodiac. Yes, the Zodiac.
You can see it here: Index
> Being Catholic > The Zodiac
I have a new
page, one that answers the question, "Who are we to judge?": Index
> Being Catholic > Judging Others
There's a new
page on the most fascinating Shroud of Turin and the Sudarium of
Oviedo. You can find it here: Index
> Being Catholic > The Shroud of
Turin and the Sudarium of Oviedo
A
page on the slur that "the Vatican is too wealthy and should sell what
it has and feed the poor" here: For
Protestants Section > The Vatican
is Too Rich!
A
page on the Spanish Inquisition can be found here: For Protestants Section > The Spanish Inquisition
I
added a section to the end of the Lectio Divina
page. Index
> Being Catholic > Lectio Divina
There's
a new sub-section of the "Being Catholic" section, an area that
focuses on the preternatural world, spiritual warfare, angels, demons,
ghosts, etc.: Index
> Being Catholic > The
Preternatural World
I've
added a bunch of Catholic desktop wallpapers and backgrounds. You'll
find them here: Index
> Being Catholic > Wallpapers and
Backgrounds
I
added a page on what to do if you're trad -- but your family isn't:
Index >
For Catholics > I'm Trad, but My
Family Isn't! Help!
I've
added a page called "Conversion of the Heart" -- likely the most
important page on this website now. It's located here: : Index
> Being Catholic > Conversion
of the Heart
I've
added a little Catholic Library -- a collection of
writings of the Doctors and Saints, plus other writings Catholics might
enjoy. Find it here: Index > Being Catholic > Catholic Library
I've
added "The Ten Commandments for the Scrupulous" written by
Redemptorist priests. It's off the "Sacrament of Penance" page
here: Index > Being Catholic > Sacrament
of Penance > The Ten Commandments for
the Scrupulous
I
added a page on how to get the traditional Latin Mass -- the
"Extraordinary Form" of the Mass -- offered at your parish. See that
here: Index >
For Catholics > How to Establish the
Traditional Latin Mass in Your Parish
A free book for your Kindle -- "The Fisheaters
Wham-Bam Thank You, Ma'am Conversion Book." Found here: Index
Page
> Free Book for your Kindle
Page on the Feast of St. Francis of Assisi and also
The Little Flowers of Saint Francis of Assisi: > Being
Catholic > Seasonal Customs > Feast of St. Francis of Assisi
>
Little
Flowers of Saint Francis of Assisi
Article
from Life Magazine, January 9, 1950, with pictures of Pope Pius XII
celebrating Jubilee. Link at the bottom of the page on Holy Years of
Jubilee: Being Catholic > Holy Years of
Jubilee
A
pdf file of the 22 June 1969 AP article, via the Los Angeles Times,
concerning Bugnini on the issue of women and veiling has been put in a
footnote on the Index Page > Being Catholic > Veiling page
Index
Page > For Catholics > On
Traditional Catholics, a
great, poetic essay written by forum member "WhollyRoamin'Catholic"
Index
Page > For Catholics > The
Decree Lifting the Excommunications of the Four S.S.P.X. Bishops,
document on the Bishops of the S.S.P.X.
Index
Page > For Catholics > The Motu
Proprio: Summorum Pontificum, Pope Benedict XVI's document on the
traditional Mass
Index
Page > For Catholics > The
Money Masters, video about our money system and the
Federal Reserve (Vox: I messed up earlier and had the video in two
parts -- but Parts I and II were the same. These videos have been
replaced with a single video. I beg pardon!)
Index
Page > For Catholics > The
Century of the Self, a four-part video miniseries about propaganda,
advertising, and other forms of media manipulation and their effects on
consumerism, social attitudes, and politics. I also added a few fun
videos to the "Fun Stuff" page, just for
laffs (with a few gems thrown in)...
I've
made a page about Catholics and beasties and have put it in the
"Being Catholic" section. It includes a sub-section consisting of St.
Basil the Great's expository on the Creation, "On the Hexaemeron." I
have a feeling this little page will grow as I find more stories of the
Saints and animals and such: Index > Being Catholic > Catholics and the Animal World > On the Hexaemeron
I
added a page about the Four Temperaments to introduce the Four
Temperaments personality test that has been at the site for a long
time: Index > Being Catholic > The
Four Temperaments (the test is no longer accessible through the Fun
Stuff page)
Via
youtube comes this series of what I consider hilarious and
well-edited (given obviously sparse equipment) videos about one really
neurotic, messed-up woman's (ahem) search for religious truth: Index
> Being Catholic > Fun Stuff > Betty
Butterfield's Quest for God
I've
added a section containing Christ's parables. It's, sad to say,
skimpy art-wise (I am looking around, trying to find medieval
art to use), but the parables are all there -- grouped as thirty-three
-- with commentary from the Fathers (or the Catholic Encyclopedia) when
available: Index > Being Catholic > The
Parables of Lord Christ
The
longer I am acquainted with the religious, the more I know
this story is necessary: The Story of the Two
Monks
A
page about the fascinating Sibyls and their role in Christianity,
Christian art, etc., has been added here: Index > Being Catholic
> The Sibyls
I
added the book "The Garbage Generation," by Daniel Amneus, once
available at the website Upstream (mugu.com). This book is a must-read
for those who deny the importance of patriarchy -- but I will have a
few things to say about it in an article I plan to write: Index >
For Catholics > The Garbage
Generation
I
am restricting the discussion forum to non-sedevacantist Catholics
(and, as always, to any guest who respects such Catholics'
sensibilities, speaks of the Holy Father with respect, and obeys the
rules of the forum). I'd wanted the forum to be "pan-trad" but am
finding that initial premises are too far-reaching in discussions among
sedes and non-sedes, and that non-sedes tend to be put on the defense
too often, leading to too many conversations about those premises, and
too few conversations about actually living the Faith. I was
also discouraged by some slurs and little snide remarks against the
Holy Father. Though these were kept, in accordance to the rules, in the
forum made for "sede vs. non-sede" debate, I simply don't want to
provide a place, on my dime, for comments such as these that would flow
naturally from sedevacantist premises. Respectful critism of papal
actions is sometimes not only warranted, but necessary;
disrespect, never giving the benefit of the doubt, and an apparent desire
to find problems aren't -- but those who don't believe Benedict XVI is
the Pope at all have no motivation to afford him that much.
Another change: the Zionism forum is now
"Read Only" due to problems in keeping troublemakers away.
Changed it back so everyone can post; we'll see how long it lasts.
Thanks
to youtube.com, I am able to present a video of the traditional
Mass: Index Page > Being Catholic > Video
of the Mass
As
I did with the pages on Ember Days, I amended the pages on Rogation
Days, adding lots of background information and readings: Index Page
> Being Catholic > Seasonal Customs > Rogation Days
Father Apollo Teaches a Lesson about Judging
Others
I
totally beefed up the pages on Ember Days, adding bits to tie things in
more clearly with the natural seasons. There is some repetition, as I
want each page on each of the Embertides to stand alone, but -- well,
you will see: Index Page > Being Catholic > Seasonal Customs >
Ember Days
The
most obvious thing that's new is the brilliant art on the index
page, created by artist Daniel Mitsui. I love it! Apparently many do,
considering what's been said about it at the forum. Mr. Mitsui, I thank
God for your talents!
Listen
to Ezra Pound read his poem about usury: Index Page > For
Catholics > Jewish-Catholic Relations > "With
Usura"
Encyclicals
on slavery added to the following location, just to have
them all in one place for when the Church gets blamed for slavery, too:
Index Page > For Catholics > Sicut
Dudum, Sublimus Dei, In Supremo Apostolatus, In Plurimus, and Catholicae Ecclesiae
Index
Page > Being Catholic > Roadside
Shrines (not a lot of information, but mostly pictures)
Index Page > Being Catholic > Seasonal
Customs > Walpurgisnacht
Index Page > Being Catholic > Seasonal
Customs > Queenship of Mary
Index
Page > Being Catholic > Seasonal Customs > Feast of St. Lawrence
A
few days late and a dollar short, but here it is nonetheless: Index
Page > Being Catholic > Seasonal Customs > Septuagesima Sunday and its Vigil
Index
Page > For Catholics > G. K. Chesterton's "On American Morals"
Index
Page > Being Catholic > Seasonal Customs > The Baptism of Our Lord Jesus Christ
Index Page > Being Catholic > Seasonal
Customs > Feast of the Visitation
(there is some repetition here from the Mary page in the "Defense of
Catholicism" area)
I
have fallen hopelessly in love with St. Ephraem. To the page on the
Sacrament of Penance (and also off the Feast of Mary Magdalen
page), I've added his Homily on
the Sinful Woman. Off the page on Precious
Stones in Sacred Scripture, I've added his "The
Pearl." You can find excerpts from his other works throughout the
site; use the search engine to locate some if you fall in love with
him, too.
In
the Index Page > Being Catholic > Seasonal Customs > area,
the following excerpts from Dom Gueranger's "The Liturgical Year" have
been added: Mystery of Advent, Mystery of Christmastide, Mystery of Septuagesima, Mystery of Lent, Mystery of Passiontide, Mystery of Paschal Time, and Mystery of the Time after
Pentecost -- each on the appropriate overview page for those
seasons.
Index Page > For Catholics > Traditional Catholicism 101: A
Brief Primer
Index
Page > For Catholics > Pius XII's Mystici Corporis and Vatican I's Pastor Aeternus
Index
Page > Being Catholic > Seasonal Customs > Twelfthnight: added St. Ephraem's Hymn XV
on the Epiphany, which can be read as a Twelfthnight play
Advent
Sunday, 2005: The site has changed its name and moved to its own
domain! Yay! Please bookmark the new URL: www.fisheaters.com I hope I
have got it all done properly; if anything is "buggy," let me know at
the discussion forum...
Index
Page > For Catholics > Leo XIII's Libertas
(On Liberty) and Inimica Vis (on
Freemasonry)
Index
Page > For Catholics > Leo XIII's Rerum
Novarum (On Capital and Labor) and
Pope Pius XI's Quadragesimo Anno
(On the Social Order)
Index
Page > For Catholics > Benedict XIV's Vix
Pervenit (on usury)
Index
Page > For Catholics > Pius VIII's Traditi Humilitati
Index
Page > Being Catholic > Lectio Divina > Pope Pius XII's "Divino Afflante Spiritu"
Index
Page > For Catholics > Pius XII's Mediator
Dei
Index
Page > Being Catholic > Holy Matrimony > Pope Pius
XII's Address to Midwives
Index
Page > Being Catholic > Seasonal Customs > The Feast of St. Louis
IX
Index
Page > Being Catholic > Seasonal Customs > The Feast of St. Thomas Becket
Index
Page > Being Catholic > Seasonal Customs > The Feast of St. Martha
Index
Page > Being Catholic > Seasonal Customs > The Feast of St. Mary Magdalen
Jewish-Catholic
Relations > Chapters Three
and Five of Israel Shahak's "Jewish
History, Jewish Religion: The Weight of 2,000 Years"
Pope
Benedict XV's encyclical "Spiritus
Paraclitus" (also off the Lectio Divina
page)
The discussion forum got hacked, so I've moved
to a
different board. You'll have to re-register, sorry! But please do
-- and please kick-start it all again! It looks pretty empty right
now...
Index
Page > Letters, Conversations, Questions & Comments > A Catholic convert from Judaism takes issue with
the "Jewish-Catholic Relations" section of this site -- Part III
Index Page > Letters, Conversations,
Questions & Comments > A Catholic
convert from Judaism takes issue with the "Jewish-Catholic Relations"
section of this site (now moved to Jewish-Catholic relations
section)
Index
Page > Being Catholic > Seasonal Customs > How to make Palm Crosses for Palm Sunday
Index Page > Being Catholic > Seasonal
Customs > Feast of St. Brigid > How
to Make a St. Brigid's Cross
So,
I've been playing with the front page, as you can see. It looks
radically different, but not much has changed, really. Summary of the
changes so far:
-
All the
apologetics links for Protestants, and the real audio conversion
stories, are now on the For Non-Catholic
Christians page.
-
All the Catholic
links that had been in the two columns on either side of the red boxes
on the index page are now on the Offsite Links
page.
-
The "Letters,
Conversations, Questions, and Comments" page has been re-named "Readers Write."
-
The "About this
Site," "Help Wanted," "Link to this Site" pages have been removed, and
some of their information incorporated into the "Questions/Comments"
page.
Index
Page > Being Catholic > Pilgrimage
> added a small section on the Sacred Heart Auto League/"plastic
Jesus" phenomenom at the bottom of this page
Index
Page > Letters, Conversations, Questions & Comments > Someone doesn't like my page on circumcision,
apparently
Index Page > Being Catholic > Religious
Orders > Regula Bullata
Index Page > Being Catholic > Domestic
Church > The Truth about Men and
Church and To Spank or Not to Spank? (I
forgot to tell you about these articles, sorry!)
Index Page > Being Catholic > Religious Orders > Rule of St. Benedict and Rule of St. Augustine and "Life of St. Antony" by St. Athanasius
and "Life of Paulus, the First Hermit" by
St. Jerome
Index Page > Being Catholic > Seasonal
Customs > Meatless Lenten Soups and Advent and Christmastide Hymns, Carols,
and Secular Songs
Index Page > Being Catholic > Akathistos Hymn to the Mother of God
Index Page > Being Catholic > Sacrifice Beads
Index Page > Being Catholic > Holy Years of Jubilee
Index
Page > Being Catholic > Pilgrimage
> Edict of Milan
Index Page > Being Catholic > Lectio
Divina > Pangur Ban
Index Page > Being Catholic > Devotion to the Holy Face
Being Catholic > Devotion
to the 5 Wounds > Passion Flower
Index Page > Being Catholic > Devotion to the Holy Name
The
Blog has been replaced by a Discussion Forum. I'm not good at
blogging; it's too lonely. Feed the discussion forum. Please.
Index Page > Being Catholic > Seasonal
Customs > The Feast of
St. Brigid and The
Feast of St. Catherine. (I also made a separate page, in the "Being
Catholic" section, on prayer for the
dead . Most of the information here had been on the Catholic Funerals page).
Index Page > Being Catholic > Votive Offerings
Index Page > Pope Clement XII's Bull
on Freemasonry, In Eminenti
Being Catholic > Holy Matrimony > Pope
Leo XIII's Encyclical Arcanum
Being Catholic > Devotion
to the 5 Wounds with these accompanying pages: the Fifteen Prayers of St. Bridget of
Sweden and The Legend of the
Sand Dollar
Being Catholic > Devotion
to the Child Jesus with information specifically on the Infant of
Prague and the corollary devotion to Maria Bambina
Being Catholic > Fun Stuff > John Paul II Random Speech Generator
just for laffs and with all due respect
Being Catholic > St. Anthony's Brief
Being Catholic > St.
Joseph: Real Estate Agent?
Letters, Conversations, Questions and Comments
> Conversation about Fatima with a
student from Steubenville
Being Catholic > The Mass: Introduction
> Excerpt from Belloc's "Science as
the Enemy of Truth"
I've also added a section to the Relics Page on the Incorruptibles and a list of
places to venerate first class relics, and have added notable icons
(Our Lady of Czestochowa and Our Lady with Three Hands) to the Sacred Images: Statues and Other Icons page.
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