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Oregon Board Retreats: Catholic Counselor’s Case Exposes the Apostate State’s War on Truth
The Oregon Board of Licensed Professional Counselors and Therapists has withdrawn its disciplinary order against Catholic counselor Frank Canepa, who faced nearly $90,000 in fines for refusing to affirm a client’s same-sex relationship. The board cited the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in *Chiles v. Salazar*, which held that states cannot silence counselors’ personal or professional viewpoints during talk therapy. The case reveals the inherent conflict between the natural law and the anti-Christian legal order now dominating the United States.
The Holy Fool: St. Benedict Joseph Labre’s Radical Witness Against a World That Worships Wealth
The article from the NC Register portal (June 22, 2026) presents the life of St. Benedict Joseph Labre, a beggar and pilgrim who died in Rome in 1783. It recounts his rejection by various monastic orders, his subsequent embrace of a life of radical poverty and pilgrimage across Europe, his countless hours of prayer before the Blessed Sacrament, and his eventual death in a butcher’s house after collapsing near the Colosseum. The piece, authored by Zubair Simonson, portrays Labre as a “living saint” and a “fool for Christ,” whose life of destitution was a profound witness to the transience of worldly goods and the surpassing value of the spiritual. While the narrative is factually accurate in its broad strokes and edifying in its intent, it operates within a framework that, by its very omissions and modern sensibilities, subtly undermines the full, supernatural weight of the saint’s witness and the Church’s traditional teaching on poverty, penance, and the contempt of the world.
Colombia’s New President-Elect and the Empty Rhetoric of “Christ the King”
EWTN News portal reports that Abelardo de la Espriella has been elected president of Colombia by a slim margin, pledging to be the president of all Colombians and concluding his victory speech with the cry, “Long live Christ the King!” While this public declaration is a welcome contrast to the secularist silence of most modern politicians, a rigorous examination of the political, social, and theological landscape reveals that such slogans, unmoored from the integral social reign of Christ the King as defined by Catholic doctrine, risk becoming hollow instruments of a “Catholicism-lite” that is powerless to reverse the tide of apostasy.
I need to analyze this article from the perspective of integral Catholic faith, following the detailed instructions provided. Let me carefully deconstruct the article and construct a thorough polemical critique.
Key observations about the article:
1. It’s from NC Register (National Catholic Register), a mainstream Catholic media outlet
2. The author, Brendan Towell, draws on Benedict XVI’s “dictatorship of relativism” concept
3. It references Pope Leo XIV (the current antipope per the instructions)
4. The article uses the “cut flowers” metaphor for Western civilization detached from Christian roots
5. It appeals to St. Thomas More as a model of fidelity
6. There are significant omissions and problematic assumptions
Let me construct the full analysis now.
[Antichurch] The Cut Flowers Metaphor: When the Neo-Church Preaches Roots It Uprooted
NC Register portal reports a June 22, 2026 commentary by Brendan Towell, Director of Spirituality and Mission for Secondary Schools in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia, employing the metaphor of “cut flowers” to describe Western civilization’s detachment from its Christian roots. The article invokes St. Thomas More, Pope Benedict XVI, and — with notable approbation — the current antipope Leo XIV, all in service of diagnosing the West’s spiritual crisis. Yet the diagnosis, while containing superficial observations that even a child of the Faith might recognize, is fatally compromised by its refusal to name the true disease: the conciliar revolution itself, which Towell’s own institutional masters orchestrated and which he serves.
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