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Ancient Truths in New Light

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Ancient Truths in New Light

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Father Pius Noonan

Dom Pius Mary Noonan is a Benedictine Monk and Priest. Born in Kentucky (USA), he entered the Abbaye Saint Joseph in Flavigny-sur-Ozerain (France) in 1984. Since 2017 he has been the Prior of a Benedictine Foundation called Notre Dame Priory in Colebrook, Tasmania, in the archdiocese of Hobart. Dom Pius holds a doctorate in Sacred Theology from the Institut Saint Thomas d’Aquin (Institut Catholique of Toulouse, France), and before leaving France was Director of Studies at the Abbey of Flavigny. As part of his community’s apostolate, Dom Pius conducts spiritual retreats in various places around Australia and in the United States.

He has published the following books:

In Garments All Red

To teach anything is to teach with authority. And any teacher who does not teach with authority is not teaching you anything at all. Such was the idea as paraphrased by G.K. Chesterton. This is what we desire from the Church: to teach with conviction the truths that have been handed down from God Almighty for the salvation of souls. This kind of authority is born from the conviction that souls are in jeopardy and that they must be saved. This is the context from which Fr Pius instructs on how to pray and to act in this period of the Church’s history.

The Rival Good

In this excellent article, Fr Pius explores the true nature of our sin. And the true nature of the conversion of heart required to restore us to justice. Oftentimes, because of the secularism of the culture and the natural tendency of the human heart to be an idolator, we like to treat our sins as minor inconveniences or trifling peccadillos. We absolve ourselves with the mere wave of the hand, but we do so without the weight of the Cross. Fr Pius exhorts us to take this moment of Grace seriously that is presented to us in Lent.

The Charity of Anathema

There is a common misconception amongst modern churchmen, that the image of the Church with an outstretched hand requires that the hand be empty. Nothing could be further from the truth. When the Church goes out to meet the world, she carries with her the fullness of truth. Not a list of proposals or thoughtful suggestions. But in order for the world to come to the truth, the Church must overcome the errors the world has accepted. In this article, Fr Pius explores the true nature of pastoral charity: that charity and silence in the face of error are eternal enemies.

Wrong Turn at the Fork

Much of what ails the Church is that she has lost sight of where she is going. If we are not convinced that there are dangers- mortal and eternal dangers- present in our Christian lives, then we are more likely to be careless bout taking a wrong turn and less than vigilant in trying to turn back to the rite path. Sin is a less serious reality when we believe there is no real penalty for it. In this article, Fr Pius examines the reality of hell and our need to embrace the Lord’s teaching and the Church’s Tradition surrounding this doctrine for the benefit of our souls.
Council of Trent

When the Path Forward Leads Back

The Catholic Church, in order to be faithful to Her mission, must never divert her gaze from Her Divine Lord. For no reason and never for a moment. A self-absorbed church is a broken church. Only the virtues of courage and daring will help her find her way forward to discover what she has always possessed: her Tradition.
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