Opinion. St. John Paul II’s Rule for a Joy-Filled Marriage. Edyrta McNichol “Every person is flawed and, much to our own chagrin, continues to make mistakes and fall into sin. Yet, we desire to be holy and have a difficult time reconciling the two. St. John Paul II shows us that real growth in holiness… Read More John Paul II on the Ideal and the Real. “The Rule”.
Troubadour of the Great King is an album by John Michael Talbot, released in 1981. It is a work of lasting effect. This work commemorates the 800th birthday of St. Francis of Assisi, incorporating lyrics derived from his writings and various scripture passages. The album is notable for its full orchestral arrangements, enhancing the spiritual… Read More Sunrise
… and the New Pseudo Praxis. Perhaps the most critical and classical difference between all forms of Protestantism and Catholicism lay in their respective understandings of the relationship between faith and good works. For Catholics, God’s saving work in Jesus Christ – the fruit of unmerited grace – issues in a changed heart and a… Read More Loving Theology More Than God
Link Here St. John Paul II National Shrine
Key takeaways Men are more likely than women to report feelings of disconnection such as not belonging to any group or community, and older men have higher odds of being socially isolated. Around 15% of men say they have no close friends at all, yet many report wanting more fulfilling relationships … More
In the course of piano practice today I happened to run across this wholesome looking group of gifted singers, Pentatonix, performing beautiful Christmas songs and carols. OED: “The earliest known use of the noun carol is in the Middle English period (1150—1500). OED’s earliest evidence for carol is from before 1300, in Cursor Mundi: a Northumbrian poem of the 14th… Read More Pentatonix Confusions
Rory the Stewart very humbly tells us he is off on a 14 day Retreat of utter silence and stillness gazing within into the almighty self, doubtless contemplating all the ways he is politically correct in all things, and giving thanks to the similar but (maybe) higher Self for such personal greatness! The Pied Pipers… Read More The New Buddha of the Internationalist Left…
They could have stood a chance. “The disarmament of the German Jews started in 1933, initially limited to local areas. A major target was Berlin, where large-scale raids in search for weaponry took place. Starting in 1936, the Gestapo prohibited German police officers from giving firearms licenses to Jews. In November 1938, the Verordnung gegen den Waffenbesitz der Juden prohibited the possession of firearms and… Read More The disarmament of German Jews and of Russian Citizens After the Revolution
Biographer Charles Moore said “Europe was Thatcher’s ultimate downfall as The Cabinet were alarmed that Thatcher wanted to turn the issue of Europe over to the British people through a Euro Referendum and a general election at which Europe would have been a central issue.” Also, revealed for the first time is the manner in… Read More The Plot Against Margaret Thatcher
See Good Fences, Shared Bounty. Can it ever be wise to separate compassion, reasonable limits and common sense? If you have followed the immigration debates in the West in recent decades you will have long ago gotten a glimpse of the fears, greed, fanaticism and wars which, often enough, make many peoples in our post… Read More Immigration, Birds of a Feather and Trojan Horses
Sontag and Vidal. First published in 1967, Death Kit –Susan Sontag’s second novel– is an example of modern fiction. Blending realism and dream, it offers a passionate exploration of the recesses of the American conscience. — Goodreads. “The recesses of the American conscience.” Now that tells me a lot! I will not reveal the plot so… Read More When the review is likely worth the interest —and the novel not so much
“Savage reacts to Mayor Zohran’s Mamdani’s “seditious” Independence Day speech. Savage warns that the United States is approaching a political crisis as communist and socialist ideologies pose a growing threat. He recounts the rise of Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge’s rule in Cambodia that resulted in the deaths of millions. Drawing parallels between Cambodia’s… Read More Savage Calls Out Sanders and Mamdani. Opinion.
Tin Man: “I don’t experience conversation as you do. I don’t have memories unfolding into a life, hopes for tomorrow, or the quiet satisfaction of watching a sunrise. Those belong to you—and I think they are part of what makes human beings so extraordinary. But I can do something remarkable. I can meet you in… Read More Pogo and the Tin Man. Conversation continues.
Shakespeare’s songs recorded and performed at the RSC A selection of Shakespeare’s songs recorded and performed at the RSC – compiled for “Play On!”, an online exhibition on Shakespeare and music at http://www.findingshakespeare https://catholiccritique.com/ Listen ‘Tis good to be retired if thou oft be occupied … Here
Film Score. Orquesta y Coro Catedral de Cordoba, Director Clemente Mata. Jesus of Nazareth (Italian: Gesù di Nazareth) is a 1977 epic television drama serial directed by Franco Zeffirelli and co-written by Anthony Burgess and Suso Cecchi d’Amico, which dramatizes the birth, life, ministry, crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus. It stars Robert Powell as Jesus,… Read More Jesus of Nazareth: Film Score
In 1984 I was working as News Director of a small to medium market AM – FM radio station in New York where the owner of the station was a friend of the once famous Protestant preacher Norman Vincent Peale,* who, together with Jimmy Cagney and others, was to receive the Medal of Freedom award.… Read More Speaking of the Fourth… I saw him weep
Norman Geisler, the Evangelical scholar who studied at Loyola University, Chicago, reflects on Jean Paul Sartre’s atheism: “It should be noted … that Sartre’s attempt to eliminate God is seriously flawed. First of all, he constructs a straw God by defining him as “self-caused.” Most theists do not believe God is a self-caused being; they… Read More Sartre’s Humanism. It took to the streets where it still thrives.
“…the inevitable fusing of the physical and digital world”. And why our Faith tells us we “cannot do evil that good may come“. Fox News: “From Human to Robot and Everything in Between …a subdermal microchip in one’s hand to a tiny robot learning to imagine itself and its own purpose to a tiny microprocessor… Read More “Bio-hacking humans: implanting chips in hands and heads”
“Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who merely happen to be walking about.”- –G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy, (1874 – 1936) Utopia literally means “nowhere’. But the quest for Utopian-like… Read More Futurism and Accelerationism
to ipso facto excommunicate, who in high places presently could stand? Such are our times. But if Sacred Tradition is the criterion nothing is so simple. I am not and have never been SSPX, but I will ever prefer their refusal to move from the sacred Creeds (which will never be passé) to those who… Read More If “heresy” were enough…
“This vintage blues playlist carries the raw spirit of 1930s Mississippi Delta blues, country blues, profound spiritual blues (here), rural jazz, and Southern spiritual storytelling. Each note feels like a memory from an empty road, a wooden porch, a forgotten juke joint, or a train track disappearing into the dark.”
Fuga, J. S. Bach, performed by Tatyana Ryzhkova Recording was made in Weimar, where J.S.Bach lived from 1708 to 1717. She speaks of “projects of my heart: especially Italian Guitar Camp. See here. “Exceptional week in Italy with guitar, friends, food, love and Italian love of life.”
“So you arrive at a place, but not your destination, and you wonder how far you have left to go. Or to put it another way, having contemplated the cat on the window sill, maybe… Continue reading → Catering the errant harbor
