Countering Increasing Irreverence and Disrespect. By Gerard T. Mundy | New Oxford Review. April 2024. Gerard T. Mundy is a writer who teaches philosophy at a New York City university. The sacred territory of the Catholic altar, at which the Lord Himself is consecrated and the tabernacle holding the Lord is expected to repose, commands respect… Read More A “Cleansing of the Altar” Is Long Overdue
“The first time I saw Brother Lawrence, was upon the 3d of August, 1666. He told me that GOD had done him a singular favor, in his conversion at the age of eighteen. That in the winter, seeing a tree stripped of its leaves, and considering that within a little time the leaves would be… Read More Brother Lawrence and the Presence of God
“AT least 750,000 people are on the brink of starvation and death in Sudan, where a devastating civil war has left over half the country’s 48 million people in a situation of chronic hunger, the global authority on famine says. At least 14 areas across the country are near famine, including some in the capital,… Read More Ongoing Starvation and Persecution in Sudan
We are living in eschatological times. Let those who wish to laugh do so. But is it not a Sign of the Times, as in the days of Noah, when the forces of Hell are unleashed so totally on the Christian Faith, particularly endless abortion, and our children, telling them with government approbation that there… Read More A New World Order
Right-Wing Extremism, Gov’t Report Warns… Feb. 2023. Author Douglas Murray published a scathing review of the British government’s counter-terrorism Prevent program, which has apparently reported that authors like George Orwell, J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis can radicalize readers. In his column, Murray described how Britain’s Prevent program was founded to support counter-terrorism efforts, but has gradually… Read More Reading ‘Lord Of The Rings’ And ‘1984’ Could Lead To…
Thinking of Fleeing to the Country to Beat the Crises of the Times? It would be wise to listen to Ross Douthat’s experiences first! Lyme Disease. (With Rod Dreher and Kale Zelden.) One must be prepared. And educated in country living. “In this vulnerable, insightful memoir, the [Catholic] New York Times columnist tells the story of his… Read More Ross Douthat’s Horrific Account of Illness
“Although it clearly follows from the circumstances that the Pope can err at times, and command things which must not be done, that we are not to be simply obedient to him in all things, that does not show that he must not be obeyed by all when his commands are good. “To know in what… Read More When a Pope Is to be Obeyed
Confessions of an Apostate. By Christopher Derrick. | The New Oxford Review.November 1985. I have a story to tell you, and I’m afraid it’s rather a personal story; within it, the pronoun “I” will recur with sickening frequency. But you’ll soon see why. G.K. Chesterton died in 1936. I was a schoolboy at the time, at… Read More A Chestertonian Adrift in an Ideological World
Gareth Richard Vaughan Jones (13 August 1905 – 12 August 1935) was a Welsh journalist who in March 1933 first reported in the Western world, without equivocation and under his own name, the existence of the Soviet famine of 1930–1933, including the Holodomor. In mid-October 1932 (less than a month after Malcolm Muggeridge had arrived in Moscow on the… Read More Gareth Jones, Malcom Muggeridge, and the Holodomor
… and Our time. Mark Groubert. “Whittaker Chambers is best known today as the veteran Soviet spy who became, in William F. Buckley Jr.’s words, “the most important American defector from Communism” when he testified against members of his underground Communist cell in the 1930s. Yet Chambers did more than reject Communism: He revealed a key… Read More The Whittaker Chamber – Alger Hiss Case
Updated. More Military Industrial Complex and The National Security State. They’ll run the show. Former Democrat Congresswoman and 2020 presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard is a combat veteran with three deployments to the Middle East and Africa. Currently, Gabbard serves as a Lieutenant Colonel in the U.S. Army Reserves working as a Civil Affairs Officer. Gabbard… Read More Dave McCormick and Tulsi Gabbard on Kamala Harris Today
Digital media analyst Hito Steyerl in another context has stumbled onto important, undeniable truths. She writes, In this new age of artificial stupidity, technological disruption has turned destructive. Its greatest victim is reality itself. “This rise of artificial stupidity is the antithesis of, or rather the millions of shabby little cousins to, artificial intelligence. Just… Read More The rise of artificial stupidity
I know we are allowed to choose the lesser of two political evils, — but even moral principles must be applied according to the convictions of a Catholic conscience and circumstances. This is the (Christ-centered) “liberty” I believe in. “Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is… Read More Not an inch to Planned Parenthood…
CCC 2784: “The free gift of adoption requires on our part continual conversion and new life.“ Philippians 1: 6 I am confident of this, that the one who began a good work in you will continue to complete it until the day of Christ Jesus. 1 Thessalonians 5: 24 The one who calls you is… Read More Continual Conversion in and towards Christ Daily
“Kamala Harris is an abortion apologist who represents the extreme pro-abortion position of the Democratic Party. “Kamala Harris has acted as the unofficial Abortion Czar of the Biden-Harris Administration,” Tobias told LifeNews.com, “She has toured the country pushing unlimited abortion and criticizing protective state laws that support women and their preborn children.” As a presidential… Read More Kamala Harris Would Impose Abortions Up to Birth on All 50 States
“With Romano Guardini, Fr. Pius Parsch is another key player from across the Rhine in the Liturgical Movement. Like Guardini, he was both a theorist and a liturgical “experimenter,” seeking to embody his ideas in new ceremonies. Johann Bruno Parsch was born on May 18, 1884 in Neustift, in Moravia, which was then under the… Read More 50 Years of the New Mass: Pius Parsch
After an event like WACO it appears Ms. Clinton begs for endless punishment. She can’t wipe the blood off of her hands. It was Attorney General Janet Reno who took the political fall (1) —for the Clintons. “The incident began when the ATF attempted to raid the church with 75 armed agents, two cattle trailers… Read More Report: Hillary Clinton Might Run if Biden Resigns
… and just how close he came to dying. A former physician to Donald Trump revealed it’s an ‘absolute miracle he wasn’t killed’ after examining his ear post-assassination attempt. Ronny L Jackson, 57, met Trump, 78, in Bedminster, New Jersey following his near-death experience to ‘personally check on him.’ ‘I am extremely thankful his life was spared,’ Jackson wrote… Read More Trump’s doctor reveals new details about ex-president’s bullet wound
I hope not. But then add “Catholics” like Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi, and Fr. James Martin into the mix roaring against prolife Catholics and then public confusion easily reaches critical mass (no pun intended). In this episode, Trent Horn shows how Protestantism’s response to legal abortion reveals it’s underlying authority problem. Trent Horn earned three… Read More Could Abortion Again Be Viewed As A ‘Fundamentalist’ Catholic Issue Under Donald Trump?
Has Vance betrayed his his Pro-Life Principles? I certainly don’t want to rain on anyone’s parade, but obviously this is no small matter for Catholics. One cannot play Pontius Pilate to the crowds and hedge ones bets when it comes to the unborn, not if one wishes to have clean hands. J.D. Vance needs to… Read More J.D. Vance, the RNC, and the Abortion Pill
“The New York Post cited a source close to Owens who claimed the clip circulating was misleading and that Owens did not deny Mengele’s experiments but condemned medical experiments in general. Owens herself responded on social media, posting a longer clip of her podcast and criticizing Zionists for trying to ban the episode. Owens made the remarks on her… Read More Jerusalem Post Report: Owens minimizes Nazi medical experiments
And the philosophy of science. The Philosophy of Science challenges a fundamental facet of the modern outlook: that science as such can answer ultimate questions about ourselves, the universe, and God. Disdaining mere discussion or mordant criticism of purely scientific conclusions, Sheen opens science to a realm of thought commonly diminished at best and denigrated… Read More Marx and Hegel: The Philosophy of Communism
Updated. Freddy Gray is joined by writer Roger Kimball to discuss the attempted assassination of Former President Donald Trump. With the dust beginning to settle from the attempted assassination of Donald Trump, they look at how this could have happened, and what’s gone wrong. They also take a look at how important Donald Trump’s Vice… Read More Roger Kimball on Gross Negligence and Diversity Hires
“While the Catholic Church clearly differs from the popular culture on the issue of sexuality and sexual identity, at the same time the moral teaching of the Church is steadfast in promoting and protecting the dignity of every person as a child of God. We can respectfully disagree with someone when their opinions differ from… Read More Clear Difference on Moral Issues…
“For the average person, all problems date to World War II; for the more informed, to World War I; for the genuine historian, to the French Revolution.” —Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn
Loneliness in the West. “Once we bowled in leagues, usually after work — but no longer. This seemingly small phenomenon symbolizes a significant social change that Robert Putnam has identified in this brilliant volume, Bowling Alone, which The Economist hailed as “a prodigious achievement.” Drawing on vast new data that reveal Americans’ changing behavior, Putnam shows how we have… Read More Bowling Alone
Updated.: ‘Lock the S.O.B.s Up,’ he said or indicated many times’: Joe Biden and the Era of Mass Incarceration. / NYT June 2019: “The truth is,” Mr. Biden had boasted … in a speech on the Senate floor, “every major crime bill since 1976 that’s come out of this Congress, every minor crime bill, has… Read More Glenn Greenwald: Is Joe Biden a “Good and Decent Man”?
… you are almost certainly a very literate person with an interest in history. And this man was a lot more than merely batschlit crazy (though he was very likely that, since he certifiably popped most of his buttons between the World Wars of the last century). He was also extremely influential, impacting for better… Read More If you know who this is…
Thomas Hobbs writes. “In the introductory voice-over to Woody Allen’s film You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger (2010), the narrator quotes Macbeth’s lines: “Life is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.” In an interview with Commonweal just after the release of the film Whatever Works (2009) and… Read More Nihilism and Guilt American Style Revisited
“To be an Olympian is to be entangled in a complex dialectic involving elitism and egalitarianism. The foundational elitism of the Olympian lies in self ascribed rationality, generally picked up on an academic campus. Egalitarianism involves a formal adherence to democracy as a rejection of all forms of traditional authority, but with no commitment to… Read More “Christophobia” and the West
First, the Problem. The famous Thomist philosopher Etienne Gilson writes, surely accurately, in his Christian Philosophy of St. Thomas Aquinas, “… at the very place where the Summa of Alexander and the Commentary of St. Bonaventure undertake to show that the existence of God is evident, St. Thomas devotes an article to proving that it… Read More Gilson, Saint Thomas and The Self-Attesting God
Larry Chapp: Traditionis Custodes’ 3 Years On: Pope Francis’ Latin Mass ‘Motu Proprio’ Has Generated Division, Not Unity Three years after the promulgation of the motu proprio Traditionis Custodes, imposing severe restrictions on the celebration of the Mass in Latin, controversy over the use of the old Latin Mass is as strong as ever. Therefore, if Pope… Read More Traditionis Custodes’ 3 Years On
New York Times 7/7/24: Even as vote counting was still underway across France on Sunday night, one thing was clear: The left-wing coalition called the New Popular Front did much better than expected and helped deny the far right a victory. Projections show the coalition coming out in front and gaining dozens of seats —… Read More Communists, Socialists, Greens, far-left Parties surge in France
Brad S. Gregory is Dorothy G. Griffin Professor of Early Modern European History at the University of Notre Dame, a world-class historian, and award-winning author of Salvation at Stake: Christian Martyrdom in Early Modern Europe and The Unintended Reformation: How a Religious Revolution Secularized Society. He received his Ph.D. from Princeton University and was a Junior Fellow in the Harvard… Read More The Reformation: Historical Conditions, Unintended Consequences
The Pillar. “Prominent U.K. figures in the arts, business, journalism, and politics have appealed to the Vatican not to impose new restrictions on the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite, also known as the Traditional Latin Mass. In a letter to the Times of London, published July 3, more than 40 signatories, Catholic and non-Catholic … Read More UK cultural grandees urge Vatican to keep TLM in new ‘Agatha Christie’ letter
Dr. Larry Chapp and Dr. David Deane “Everyone knows there is a “crisis” in the Catholic Church and in the world around us. Some say it is capitalism gone wild. Others say it is the decay of tradition, family, and objective truth. Still others say it is the rise of radical, reactionary conservatism. Though all… Read More Nietzsche and the Crisis in the Church and World
Jeffrey Dahmer murdered 17 men between the late ‘70s and early ‘90s, killing them in the most horrendous ways. His killing spree involved rape, dismemberment, necrophilia, and cannibalism. Few crimes in modern history are seen as disgusting and evil as Dahmers’. Police discovered mutilated bodies, refrigerated skulls, a shrine and a barrel with headless torsos,… Read More Jeffrey Dahmer’s Confession
SH Note: Never-ending media and book seller hatred for JFK is just what the warmongering Deep State wants. Media is influential after all. The objective has always been to murder even the memory of this President who so opposed that same Deep State and its dangerous amoral ways. See also, What Changed on November 22, 1963… Read More The Posthumous Assassination of JFK
“Countless people…will hate the New World Order…and will die protesting against it…we have to bear in mind the distress of a generation or so of malcontents.” — H. G. Wells from his book, “The New World Order.” And every Christian on this, their, Internet is potentially writing his or her own indictment for the sake… Read More CNBC: A New World Order is Emerging
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