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.
🎶 “The more I read the papers, the less I comprehend; the world and all its capers, and how it soon will end… The radio and the telephone and the movies that we know may be passing fancy… we’ve got something permanent, that is in the way we care…” 🎵
Updated. DN: “As Christians around the world prepare to celebrate Easter Sunday, we go to Palestine to speak to Reverend Munther Isaac, pastor of the Lutheran Church in Ramallah and director of the Bethlehem Institute for Peace and Justice, located in the city of Jesus Christ’s birth. This year’s Easter preparations come against the backdrop… Read More “Two Versions of Christianity”: Pope Leo Calls for Peace as U.S. “Uses Religion to Justify Iran War”.
… “to safely monitor people’s health records, keeping tabs on farmers, and tackling “climate problems.” See Gates speaking on this here.
Franco Zeffirelli’s 1990 adaptation of Shakespeare’s tragedy about the young prince of Denmark who is plagued by indecision when he vows to avenge his father’s murder. Filmed on location around the UK, including Stonehaven in Scotland, the film boasts an impressive ensemble cast. “Casting Mel Gibson was a choice, but a clever one. Zeffirelli aimed… Read More It is Always a Propitious Time to Revisit Franco Zeffirelli’s Hamlet
Hans Urs von Balthasar Symphony means “sounding together”. First there is sound, then different sounds and then we hear the different sounds singing together in a dance of sound. A bass trumpet is not the same as a piccolo; a cello is not a bassoon. The difference between the instruments must be as striking as… Read More Truth Is Symphonic: Aspects of Christian Pluralism
By Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen. | ” … dictators are not the creators of the world’s evil; they are its creatures; they are only boils on the surface of the world’s skin; they come to the surface because there is bad blood beneath. It will do no good to puncture the boils, if we leave… Read More The Wars and the Revolution
“We live in the time of no room, which is the time of the end. The time when everyone is obsessed with lack of time, lack of space, with saving time, conquering space, projecting into time and space the anguish produced within them by the technological furies of size, volume, quantity, speed, number, price, power… Read More Thomas Merton on the Apocalypse, the Inn With No Room
National Catholic Register. The Irish-born priest is revered for his revolutionary approach to caring for impoverished boys at the group home he founded in Omaha, Nebraska. By Hannah Brockhaus / EWTN News 23, 2026 Pope Leo XIV on Monday approved the advancement of the beatification cause for Boys Town founder Father Edward J. Flanagan, declaring… Read More Boys Town Founder Father Flanagan Moves One Step Closer to Sainthood
“With the Archbishop of Canterbury now confirmed as a woman, we’re seeing a pattern in which the essential nodes of the British Tradition are being destroyed. We’re now at peak modernity, with the spiritual order totally flipped on its head. Is this the end? In a political and cultural sense, maybe, yet we’re seeing the… Read More Are Britain and Western Civilization Being Systematically Destroyed?
“Is it not strange that sheep’s guts should hale souls out of men’s bodies?” — William Shakespeare
— from retrospect journal.com. Campbell was the ‘Downing Street Director of Communications and Strategy’, an office which was invented for him specifically. He was in charge of everything to come out of Blair’s Number 10, as well as directing the campaigns which won Blair two of the largest majorities in British Parliamentary history. Campbell had… Read More King of Spin Again. Alastair Campbell’s New Self.
Tucker Carlson liked Moscow’s clean streets and low crime rate. But he did not confront Putin’s abuses of power as alleged by Western powers. “Vladimir Putin is a thug and a murderer and a killer and a KGB agent,” Senator John McCain said on CBS’s “Face the Nation” on Dec. 11, 2016. Putin, who has… Read More A Short List of the Alleged Crimes of Vladimir Putin
Excerpt from Jean Paul Sartre. Freedom and the Disclosure of Being. “It is through my horror that I am carried toward the future and, insofar as it constitutes the future as possible, my horror nihilates itself. It is precisely the consciousness of being one’s own future, in the mode of not-being, that we call anguish.… Read More Sartre and the Fears of Contingency
I wonder what you might think of this piece I did and the criticism that follows which I found to be mostly valid but non-essential for my thesis. . Someone said, “Writing is easy for a thoughtful person. It is the editing that is hard.” ☕ The Thesis: Tolkien’s Battle for the Shire. And for… Read More How Tin Man Is Helping Students, Beginning With Me
Digital ID Cards. The latest desperate proposal from Keir Starmer would fundamentally change the relationship between the individual and the state. It is an attack on our liberties and must be opposed. See & Hear Jacob Rees-Mogg’sWarning Here
National Catholic Reporter. “Presidents of the world’s bishops’ conferences to Rome for an October 2026 summit aimed at assessing how the Catholic Church engages with families in a rapidly changing world. Announcing the gathering in a March 19 message marking the 10th anniversary of Amoris Laetitia (“The Joy of Love”), Leo said the meeting would seek “a synodal discernment… Read More Question of Irregular Unions Return Under Leo?
And education. American v. Catholic Christic Liberty. “… Barron, who serves as a commissioner on the religious liberty panel, echoed Cordileone and said Catholics are increasingly being pushed out of health care and social services. “I think they want us out of health care,” he said. “They want us out of education.” The bishop of… Read More “They want us out of healthcare altogether”
“The screen often becomes an addiction. It is not just the Church that makes this declaration, but the behavioral sciences also confirm this. Screens are an escape from reality in the same way alcohol and drugs pretend to offer. While we may want to frame it as a moral issue, this pitfall is so much… Read More SSPX speaks the simple truth here
“There is only one recorded time in the life of our blessed Lord that he ever sang. And that is the night he went out to his death.” “You can sell the Blessed Lord. But you can never buy Him”. + Archbishop Sheen on the Last Supper and Agony. + Death March to Jerusalem +… Read More The Supper and the Cross
From war-torn Russia to the quiet strength of family life in America, Aunt Rose’s courage was forged in suffering and sustained by faith and humility. By Richard Lukas | National Catholic Register. I was blessed to have two loving parents who were the nucleus of an extended family that included my brother, sister, aunt, two… Read More An Extraordinary Lady Formed by Faith and Fire
Neither Capitalism nor Communism, Envy or Greed. “Itemize the things you covet –As you squander through your life –Bigger cars, bigger houses –Term insurance for your wife –Tuesday evenings with your harlot –And on Wednesdays it’s your charlatan –analyst, he’s high upon your list – You’ve got air conditioned sinuses –And dark disturbing doubts about… Read More Mr. Business Man
On February 26, 1950, a couple of years before I was born, Leonard Bernstein premiered his second symphony, The Age of Anxiety, in New York City. It was based on W. H. Auden’s 1948 Pulitzer Prize winning poem which had used the metaphor to describe the spiritual, psychological, and political milieu after World War II.… Read More The Age of Anxiety
Josef Stalin, seen here, “was once a hip young Liberal intellectual, an atheist Democrat Socialist, who led protests against the rich and powerful. He rose to power, promising equity, then took over private industry, leading to mass poverty and famine. With utter indifference he killed over 20 million of his own people.” Joseph Stalin was… Read More Stalin and Solzhenitsyn
…how did Islam conquer so much and so many after the death of Mohammed? Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Arab conquests – an extraordinary period in the 7th and 8th centuries when the tribes of the Arabian Peninsula conquered the Middle. In Our Time is a live BBC radio discussion series exploring the history… Read More BBC’s Melvyn Bragg on The Arab Conquests
By Carol Jackson Robinson,Feb. 1951. Here seems to be a law of diminishing resistance, whereby people corrupt easier and quicker as progressive barriers come down. For instance if someone were to institute nude bathing, I would be surprised to find much general disapproval. Certainly nothing to compare with the hullabaloo said to have been aroused… Read More About Television. 1951.
Note: I know nothing about the producer / narrator of this video, but what he says here seems true enough. “While leftists often offer valid critiques of neoliberalism, their solutions lack depth when it comes to the multidimensional nature of the issues we face. Yet we seem to enact many of their ideas which all… Read More The Liberal World Order, Pernicious Naivety, and the Complexity of Social Poverty
It is, all the Saints say, better to work quietly, even as kind or critical stragglers find their way to you daily in order to at least ponder the great questions of our time, before our time is done. In working this way we can constantly take serious stock of where we are, spiritually (it’s… Read More It is not good to have fan clubs praise you
The creative brilliance of Hans Zimmer aside, is computer looping music? Is the human being / composer in danger of being lost when all “music” is reduced to “nothing but” vibrations and frequencies which have allegedly “always” existed in the universe without direction? Music is evidence of the harmonious manipulation and redirection of created vibrations… Read More The Vibrations of Hans Zimmer
Martin Bormann, Reich leader: “National Socialist and Christian concepts are incompatible. The Christian Churches build upon the ignorance of men and strive to keep large portions of the people in ignorance because only in this way can the Christian Churches maintain their power. On the other hand, National Socialism is based on scientific foundations. Christianity’s… Read More Adolph Hitler Hated Christianity
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
“May the Passion of our Lord Jesus Christ, the intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary and of all the Saints, whatever good you do and whatever evil you endure, be for you a remedy for sin, an increase of grace, and the reward of eternal life. Go in peace”. — Traditional priestly prayer used with… Read More May the Passion of Our Lord Be For You A Remedy
Especially older persons must have wholesome and productive hobbies, like chess maybe and / or piano, isn’t it so? I have chosen the piano and I’ve been enjoying the learning and the progress immensely all winter. It’s certainly better than spending one’s retirement watching the Soaps and much other television nonsense. A keyboard 🎹 today… Read More Golf is Not the Only Option.
Updated. “Something strange is happening on the American right. In just a few years, a movement that once claimed to champion Western civilization began to entertain arguments that Winston Churchill was the real villain of World War II, that Hitler didn’t intend the Holocaust, and that Stalin wasn’t so bad after all. These ideas aren’t… Read More Victor Davis Hanson on the Fall of Tucker Carlson
This good man says to us, there is nothing left to prove to anyone. Certainly after 70, if not earlier, he says, “Staying home isn’t about hiding. It’s about highly efficient energy management. It’s about protecting the limited voltage you have left so you can spend it on the things that actually matter to your… Read More A Good Man’s Wisdom: Certainly by 70, Conserving Energy is the Goal…
AP. BBC. Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has reportedly been killed in a major attack on Iran launched by Israel and the United States, throwing the future of the Islamic Republic into doubt and raising the risk of regional instability Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed in his office on Saturday morning… Read More Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei Killed in US-Israeli Attack
“Thy Faith Hath Made Thee Whole includes all of the articles Carol Jackson Robinson (1911-2002) wrote for Integrity, the magazine she co-founded with Ed Willock and others in 1946. A latér collection of many of her articles was published by The Angelus Press in the book, My Life with Thomas Aquinas, in two editions (1992 & 1995). This… Read More Faith and the Ascendancy of Mammon. Carol Robinson.
By Intentional Faith on February 24, 2026 The Day of Atonement Was a Graphic Reminder That Sin Is a Life-and-Death Matter. Sin leads to spiritual death unless atoned for. Each animal sacrifice was the dreadful reminder that pointed forward. To a Cross. When we read Leviticus 16, we are confronted with imagery that feels foreign and even unsettling.… Read More When Sin Costs Blood and Grace Costs Everything
And the Deep Truths in Fritz Eichenberg’s ‘The Lord’s Supper‘. The other side of the Eucharist is friendship. It often happens that week after week, year after year, Christians sit and kneel next to practical strangers in church on Sundays. They leave Mass as they entered, nodding and saying hello to people they do not… Read More Strangers in the Pews
It’s a work of mercy I hope to revisit it. Michael Steven Bublé OBC (IPA: /buːˈbleɪ/ boo-BLAY; born September 9, 1975)[1] is a Canadian singer and songwriter. Regarded as a pop icon, he is often credited for helping to renew public interest and appreciation for traditional pop standards and the Great American Songbook. Bublé has sold over 75 million records worldwide,[2] and won numerous awards,… Read More The Christmas Concert I Somehow Missed. Michael Buble’.
