Anime Review #95: I Want To Eat Your Pancreas

I've finally found an anime that comes off similar to a novel/flick from the golden yet seemingly distant days of middle school, named Nicholas Sparks' A Walk To Remember, which tells the story of an outgoing, popular boy falling in love with a shy, distant Protestant girl despite their initially rocky start. And the anime …

St. Pius V Corner: Saving Souls Here And Beyond

The Dogma of Purgatory is too much forgotten by the majority of the faithful; the Church Suffering, where they have so many brethren to succour, whither they foresee that they themselves must one day go, seems a strange land to them. This truly deplorable forgetfulness was a great sorrow to Saint Francis de Sales. “Alas!” …

St. Pius V Corner: The Concupiscence Of The Digidestined

It is likewise a matter of common experience that the passions are a source of many temptations and sins. Often they are antecedent (not premeditated or willed), as when they arise from bodily states over which one has no control or from imaginations strongly fixed in the mind, and at the same time tend to …

St. Pius V Corner: Clout Cosplaying

Vainglory is the inordinate effort to manifest one's own excellence, real or fictitious. It is called vain, because it is concerned either with things of small moment, such as personal beauty, or with praise that is not due or is unduly sought. While venial in and of itself, it may become mortal if the praise …

Uniformity With God’s Will In Anime #7: Yamato Ishida

Having reached the final chapter of St. Alphonsus Liguori's Uniformity With God's Will with this post, I will be closing off this series and recommence the St. Pius V Corner column that was temporarily halted last July. While in previous chapters the author discussed the basics of perfect uniformity of the soul to what God …

Uniformity With God’s Will In Anime #6: Ryota Hiiraga/Joseph Bartrich

I apologize if this week's edition of Uniformity With God's Will In Anime seems like a repeat in theme of the second one, especially considering the characters' circumstances. Tied to this are the main points of Chapter 2 of St. Alphonsus' eponymous book and the second half of the fifth chapter are basically a repeat …

Uniformity With God’s Will In Anime #4: Yuuta Togashi

I would like to wish all my readers a blessed All Saints' Day today - wherein we commemorate all the holy men and women who, having lived exemplary lives on Earth, have passed into eternity to live among the others justified in Christ, as part of His Mystical Body (present as the Catholic Church). May …