By my friend Vermavkv @WordPress. In life, one person stands out—my mother. She represents love, resilience, and guidance. As I think about the [Wordpress] prompt, “Describe a person who has positively impacted your life,” her influence comes to the forefront of my mind. Mothers, often the unsung heroes in the background of our lives, possess a quiet… Read More A Quiet and Extraordinary Power 🌸
Bishop Robert Barron cites example of St. Thomas More in defense of the priority of God’s commandments when push comes to shove. Prudential considerations are involved as well. This video from last week discusses the case of Enoch Burke, an Irish Christian school teacher who was given a life sentence for refusing to use a… Read More Ireland’s Enoch Burke
In George Harrison’s All Things Must Pass triple album he has a song called Awaiting on You All in which he claimed that the Pope owned “51% of General Motors And the stock exchange is the only thing he’s qualified to quote us.” Hmm…. So I wanted to Fact Check this startling claim. But how?… Read More When George Harrison Fibbed About the Pope
“Towards the end of the show someone out in the crowd … knew I wasn’t feeling too well,” recalled Dylan in a 1979 interview. “I think they could see that. And they threw a silver cross on the stage. Now usually I don’t pick things up in front of the stage. Once in a while… Read More Dylan’s Cross.
Updated | Activism, Uncensored | Racket News Special Report. “The Trump Administration’s decision to end most enforcement of a federal law prompts Randall Terry’s return to the front door of an abortion provider Ford Fischer | Dec 11, 2025 In the late 1980s and early 90s, Randall Terry was well known as the founder of… Read More Operation Resurrection
“It was as if I saw God on his throne, and all his angels around him.” — G. F. Handel. Recorded live in the Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford, on Friday 3 December 2021. Academy of Ancient Music and Choir of the Queens College Oxford. George Frideric Handel was one of the greatest composers of the Baroque… Read More Handel’s Messiah
Pictures of the Socialistic Future • Eugen Richter • Trans. Henry Wright • LvMI, 2010 • 160 pages. This review originally appeared on CobdenCentre.org. If someone gave me a gold sovereign for every time in my life I had heard a variation on the following phrase, then in the words of Private James Frazer, from Dad’s Army, I would now… Read More The Writing on the Berlin Wall: Pictures of the Socialistic Future
The Nazis in Power | The Rest is History. Tom Holland, Dominic Sandbrook. Lebensraum, meaning “living space,” was a key concept in Nazi ideology that justified Germany’s expansionist policies, particularly towards Eastern Europe, to provide land and resources for the German people. Adolf Hitler believed that acquiring Lebensraum was essential for the survival and growth… Read More Lebensraum. The Nazis in Power. Video Discussion.
Jesus Christ: “given unto us” (Isa 9.6): This “true Man” has been the subject of the most sublime contemplation, worship, and love imaginable for over two thousand years. Even agnostics marvel over his Person and teachings. And His enemies, of whatever variety, obsess over Him to this very day. For in that crib, the Church… Read More Jesus Christ, Light of the World
Catholics resist only dangerous-to-Faith, dubious formulations, but must obey when such formulations faithfully transmit sacred tradition, otherwise known as “the Deposit of Faith”: “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… Read More When Catholics Must Obey
And the end of civilisation. Excerpt. James Marriott Sep 19, 2025 What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book because there would be no one who wanted to read one. — Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death The age of… Read More The dawn of the post-literate society
How can we know the Way? “Thy Word is a light to my feet and a lamp to my path.” Psalm 119:105 By Way of The Cross He leads us through both light and darkness. “My son, trust not to thy present feeling, for it will soon give way to another. As long as you… Read More Thomas a Kempis: “Do Not Trust Feelings”
Dr Carrie Gress joins Steven Edginton for a revealing conversation about the true origins, evolution, and modern impact of feminism. From the occult roots of the early movement to the rise of abortion, identity politics, and gender ideology, Gress explains what she believes has gone wrong. They explore the collapse of family life, the decline… Read More Inside the Feminist Movement
Today like never before Evil has let down the nets to tempt us and haul in uncountable numbers of souls. One of the main ways the Adversary is doing this is by juxtaposing the the Good next to Evil. We see this in ‘entertainment’ especially. But not only there. One need go no further than… Read More The Evil One has let down his nets
Note: Citing what I regard as a significant insight from an important author clearly does not imply an unconditional endorsement of the author’s entire philosophy, theology or worldview. SH ~~ — Excerpt from Mariology by Michael Schmaus in The Concise Sacramentum Mundi edited by theologian Karl Rahner. Michael Schmaus (17 July 1897 – 8 December 1993)… Read More Christology and Mariology. Karl Rahner.
By Mary Harrington | Subscribe to Unheard 2 Dec 2025 Only a Dadaist could enjoy the news headlines these days. Rachel Reeves faces accusations of lying about the national finances to justify raising taxes to buy votes, which she has done by penalising those trying to save for their own retirement. Her efforts have also set the graduate… Read More Why the Great Reset failedÂ
Updated. Circling Coldhearted Murder The Execution of Tropmann” is an essay by Ivan Turgenev that explores the ethical issues surrounding the death penalty and public executions, particularly focusing on the reactions of onlookers. It reflects on the cold-heartedness of the crowd witnessing the execution of Jean-Baptiste Troppmann, a notorious spree killer in France. “Upon witnessing… Read More The Execution of Tropmann
“What earlier generations held as sacred remains sacred and great for us too, and it cannot be all of a sudden entirely forbidden and even considered harmful.” —Pope Benedict XVI, Letter to the Bishops of the Catholic Church on the occasion of the publication of the motu proprio Summorum Pontificum, July 7, 2007. “The Holy… Read More The Sacred Deposit. No Substantial Evolution of Meaning.
By Thomas Merton. ONE of the most disturbing facts that came out in the Eichmann trial was that a psychiatrist examined him and pronounced him perfectly sane. I do not doubt it at all, and that is precisely why I find it disturbing. If all the Nazis had been psychotics, as some of their leaders… Read More A Devout Meditation in Memory of Adolf Eichmann
…. or it’s Far Right sympathizers, or, especially, the man behind the curtain who stays there hidden. Or for Candace or Tucker, or for anyone —-especially if they attend The Latin Mass and cannot comprehend the contradiction. — >Fuentes’ tells Tucker Carlson he’s a fan of Josef Stalin — >Fuentes’ Admiration for Genocidal Communist Josef… Read More Don’t throw your life away for this cult
Dr. Arthur Holmes, History of Philosophy : This is an excellent series, it is very informative and fair to the ancients, to Catholic, Protestant and Enlightenment philosophies from Thales to Sartre and beyond. 81 comprehensive episodes. One can learn something new with every listen, or relisten, of any episode in this History of Philosophy series.… Read More History of Philosophy
Mark and Louise Zwick, Houston Catholic Worker, Vol. XX, No. 3, May-June 2000, excerpt. “You ape, you assent to get the better of me. Hold your tongue… If there is no God, then I am God!” – — Fyodor Doestoevsky, The Demons “…It was Dostoevsky among the Russian novelists who struck the deepest chord with Dorothy during her… Read More Dostoevsky and Dorothy Day
[Doctors in Lowell, Massachusetts in 2006 used extraordinary pressure tactics on our family trying to persuade us not to agree to the need of a Feeding Tube for our son after a brain injury. After consulting with Christian medical ethicists in Europe and the U.S. we insisted on the Feeding Tube without which we were… Read More Euthanasia 2025
[John Lennon and Paul McCartney provided backing vocals on “We Love You” (During The Rolling Stones Satanic Majesties Request album sessions]—Wikipedia ¢¢¢ from Their Satanic Majesties Request LP “And a great portent appeared in heaven, a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars; she was with… Read More “Anastasia screamed in vain.” Rolling Stones.
If we meet a Muslim who is hungry we must try to feed him, if he is homeless, we must try to find him shelter; if a Muslim we know is emotionally or physically hurting, we must seek to tend to his wounds as a brother in Adam. Immigration Many of us in the West… Read More Islam and Our Grandchildren
…who kindly blesses each one of us with the Sign of the Cross + from the sidewalk when we come out of Church. Or when we pass on the street. O blessed Sign! Once when I needed to Confess my sins only to find it was one of those rare days when the church was… Read More I know a priest
Excerpts from Integrated Art: Expressions of a Deified Reality, New Oxford Review By Thomas J. Kronholz | New Oxford Review | November 2025. Thomas J. Kronholz is a systematic theologian, author, and classical pianist. He holds advanced degrees in systematic theology from Notre Dame Graduate School at Christendom College and piano performance from the Peabody Institute… Read More Integrated Art: Expressions of a Deified Reality
“Never seek honor for yourself at your father’s expense; it is not to your credit if he is dishonored… Your own honor comes from the respect that you show to your father. If children do not honor their mothers, it is their own disgrace… do not forget the birth pangs of your mother”. Sirach 3 Duties… Read More Sirach 3 on Children’s Spiritual Debt forever to their Parents
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