“In this stimulating and still-timely study, the great Thomist Josef Pieper takes up a theme of paramount importance to his thinking – that festivals belong by rights among the great topics of philosophical discussion. As he develops his theory of festivity, the modern age comes under close and painful scrutiny. It is obvious that we… Read More Josef Pieper on the Loss of Spiritual Festivity
The objective of the modernist has always been to force ‘God’ into a relative obscurity in order to make more room for the autonomy of man. In order to do so it is necessary for the modernist to utterly reject the traditional understanding of the Incarnation, whereby God consummated His love and revelation of Himself… Read More The “Specious Pretext”. Modernism.
Dr. Ralph Martin: “How can someone be appointed Archbishop of Washington, DC, after expressing views contrary to the Catholic faith? This is the question being raised by many within the American Catholic Church after Cardinal Robert McElroy’s recent appointment as Archbishop of Washington, DC. Appointments like this are causing many Catholics to wonder what is… Read More A Time of Trouble. Cardinal Robert McElroy.
CNA. Assisted suicide legislation has been introduced in several states this year, with some bills gaining traction in efforts to legalize the practice and expand its availability. According to Tim Millea, chairman of the board of the Catholic Medical Association, the three “most worrisome” states where legislation has been introduced are Illinois, Maryland, and Delaware.… Read More Grave Sins of State. Assisted suicide legislation gaining ground in 2025
“In Archbishop Georg Gänswein’s memoir, Nothing but the Truth — My Life Beside Benedict XVI, there are some passages which confirm that the pope emeritus, in relation to ethically sensitive issues, was in full harmony with the Magisterium of the Church and in significant discord with the magisterium of Pope Francis albeit presented with extreme grace… Read More On abortion and gender Benedict and Francis are irreconcilable
“It is fashionable for Catholic liberals to decry the pre-conciliar Church as concerned with little more than personal piety and indifferent to the injustice and suffering in the world. This is a monstrous travesty of the truth as every adult Catholic must surely know. Never in the history of our planet has so much concern… Read More Michael Davies on the Merciful, Ever Welcoming Church
Dorothy Day and the spiritually subversive Works of Mercy. Most of us must pay taxes or else we are forbidden to work, and this would put our families in grave jeopardy. Dorothy Day knew this. She chose to work outside of “the system” in service to those in need. But she counseled the rest of… Read More Dorothy Day Rendered Spiritual Gifts to Caesar
How Jesus revealed Himself to the disciples after the resurrection in the Eucharist. 24 “… on the first day of the week, at early dawn, they went to the tomb, taking the spices which they had prepared. 2 And they found the stone rolled away from the tomb, 3 but when they went in they did not find the body.… Read More He was “known to them in the breaking of the bread”.
“Top diplomats from the United States and Russia met in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday to discuss ending the war in Ukraine and improving relations between Washington and Moscow. The Riyadh summit represents a monumental shift in U.S. policy after the Biden administration led an international effort to isolate Russia over its invasion and gave tens… Read More Victory for Putin in Ukraine? Jeffrey Sachs and Matt Duss Debate War.
The imaginative evolutionary narrative of history that takes us back to the moral jungle. Elon Musk’s version of MAGA. Also, Musk’s DOGE Holds First Hearing on Government Waste. Opens everyone’s books (good) except his own (not good). This weekend, a MAGA influencer, Ashley St. Clair, 26, alleged on X that: ‘Five months ago I welcomed… Read More Elon Musk’s 13 Babies. Monogamy in Crisis.
Message of Pope John Paul II for World Migration Day, 1996 Dear Brothers and Sisters, 1. The phenomenon of migration with its complex problems challenges the international community and individual States today more than ever. The latter generally tend to intervene by tightening migration laws and reinforcing border control systems. Thus migration loses that dimension… Read More Undocumented Migrants. Pope John Paul II.
Alas, it’s been a tough winter here in New England where I live. A couple of weeks ago, while shoveling some of our winter snow, I slipped on hidden ice and took an impressive fall. I immediately knew my right shoulder was likely broken. For about ten minutes I was alone on my back on… Read More A Last Things Podcast
The Judge Who Brought Compassion in the Courtroom Now Needs Your Prayers. By Colm Flynn, National Catholic Register, Feb.15 Judge Frank Caprio’s courtroom was more than a place of judgement — it became a place of mercy — and now, as he battles cancer, he needs our prayers. When Judge Frank Caprio peered over his… Read More Meet the Kindest Judge in America
“The Former Border Patrol Agent’s Ambitious Plans to Reform U.S. Immigration Policy Put Him on a Collision Course With [Liberal] U.S. Bishops. And he said this week, “I love the Catholic Church. The Pope has lost his way. He needs to fix the Catholic Church and leave the borders to us.” Tom Homan grew up in… Read More Trump’s Catholic Border Czar Sees Humanitarian Mandate
Updated. Calling out Europe on its Human Rights contradictions, promiscuous immigration laws and its failure to provide for its own security aims. Link to speech here Also: PARIS—Vice President JD Vance said Thursday that the U.S. would hit Moscow with sanctions and potentially military action if Russian President Vladimir Putin won’t agree to a peace deal with Ukraine that… Read More JD Vance’s History Making Speech to Munich Conference 2025
So-called ‘Liberals’ have a philosophical problem in this country and beyond. On the one hand they heartily indulge and enjoy the sexual anarchy granted by the succeeding regimes since the 1950’s and 1960’s; on the other hand they tend to deplore the lawlessness of American foreign policy / imperialism / warmaking. They do not see… Read More When the State is Ultimate
But the Government has only promised 700,000 extra urgent appointments | Thursday 27 February 2025 | Independent.co.uk The 700,000 extra dental appointments promised by the Government will only cover a third of people who need urgent care, leading dentists have said. The British Dental Association (BDA) said that leaving hundreds of thousands of people in England without access to NHS urgent… Read More NHS Failure. 2.2M British in need of urgent dental care
I don’t mean to rain on Patrick Madrid’s (or anyone’s) parade. But consider. He writes in bold letters on ‘X’ that the Beatles are the “Greatest Band in History. Don’t Trust Anyone Who Doesn’t Like The Beatles!“. But the Beatles cast both genius and deepest shade. I’m in my 7th decade of life. I’ve loved… Read More The Beatles and Where We Are.
… After His Murder, Aims Changed. What Changed on November 22, 1963 Besides Everything? After JFK’s assassination USAID essentially became a money-laundering operation for new powers. “Records of the Agency for International Development (RG 286) “On November 3, 1961, President John F. Kennedy signed the Foreign Assistance Act reorganizing the structure of U.S. foreign assistance… Read More JFK Founded USAID & Peace Corp to Draw World Away From Communism.
Court insiders claim Trump sanctions could destroy the ICC. Blow to Political Internationalism. “ICC sources told The Guardian that the measures expected to be implemented by the Trump administration could “shut the court down entirely”. “The concern is the sanctions will be used to shut the court down, to destroy it rather than just tie its hands,” one official warned.… Read More Trump’s sanctions will hit the International Criminal Court hard
In a recent letter to American Catholics, “excommunicated” Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano delivered a reasonable and cogent body blow to globalists, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, and Pope Francis (Jorge Bergoglio) for failing to teach the whole Catholic Faith and for actually exploiting the poor and vulnerable. This website and its editor does… Read More Archbishop Vigano’s Body Blow
… the campaigners trying to legalise class-A drugs – a network stretching to the top of the US government….Timothy Leary remembers Aldous Huxley saying, “We must spread the word… The obstacle to this evolution, Timothy, is the Bible.” Many proponents suggest that drugs can help us evolve to a more perfected state – what Stamets… Read More Inside the Psychedelic Elite
TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — President Donald Trump’s plan to seek U.S. ownership of the Gaza Strip and move out its population infuriated the Arab world. It stunned American allies and other global powers and even flummoxed members of Trump’s own party. The reaction in Israel was starkly different. The idea of removing hundreds of thousands of Palestinians… Read More Trump Gaza plan shocks the world but finds support in Israel
Sitting next to a beaming Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, President Trump announced that the US would be clearing all Palestinians off their land in Gaza, that US troops would move in, and that the US would rebuild it for Israelis to take over once finished. This is making America great again? Also today: the… Read More Former Presidential Candidate Ron Paul: Trump Plan for Gaza Could End Up Our Vietnam.
“It is vanity to desire a long life, and to have little care for a good life.” — Thomas a Kempis Tolkien mourned the decline of the Shire* i.e., …the real shire of his youth which he ever remembered and sought to salvage to the extent that he could. The Shire: the simplicity and beauty… Read More Tolkien’s Battle for the Shire. And for Us All.
Persecuted by many Catholic dissidents on account of his Catholic orthodoxy, but loved by millions the world over, Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen (1895-1979) was one of the American Church’s greatest intellects, spiritual masters and evangelists. In his lifetime he wrote some 66 books on everything from the philosophy of science and epistemology to works of… Read More Thomas C. Reeves on Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen. C-Span.
The famous Thomist Etienne Gilson wrote to Henri de Lubac, “The ravages he wrought, which I have witnessed, are horrifying.” George Sim Johnston writes, “Teilhard concocted from evolutionary theory a kind of process theology that, among other things, implicitly denies the doctrine of original sin. Pope Pius XII once asked the great French thelogican Etienne… Read More The Teilhardian Vapor
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