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Email for this website: sthand@email.com Stephen Hand, editor. Reporter, Assistant News Director and News Director for several radio stations in New York and Connecticut. Paralegal. PCA in Retirement. Contributor for various Catholic newspapers and publications.

“Horrific in the Extreme”. Rupnik art on Vatican website again & in Popes’ apartment

CWR: “Despite calls from abuse victims and their advocates to stop displaying artwork by the disgraced former Jesuit priest Father Marko Ivan Rupnik, the Vatican has again used one of the artist’s images to illustrate an online article. In addition … a video was published by Argentine public TV channel Canal de la Cuidad that… Read More “Horrific in the Extreme”. Rupnik art on Vatican website again & in Popes’ apartment

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Benedict the Brave: The Regensburg Address. Islam, reason and faith.

James Day. On September 12, 2006, Pope Benedict XVI took to the dais of the University of Regensburg’s Aula Magna to offer a few “memories and reflections.” Contrary to the resulting rebukes, the 79-year-old pontiff knew exactly what he was doing. Catholic World Report Pope Benedict XVI took to the dais of the University of… Read More Benedict the Brave: The Regensburg Address. Islam, reason and faith.

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Rosary for the Sick

From The Basilica and Shrine of Our Lady of Perpetual Help (Latin: Basilicæ Minoris de Beatæ Maria Virginis de Perpetuo Succursu). It is informally known as The Mission Church  in the Mission Hill, Roxbury, neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, United States. The Redemptorists priests of the Baltimore Province have ministered to the parish since the church was first opened in 1870. The shrine is dedicated… Read More Rosary for the Sick

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Disabilities Rights Organizations Fight Assisted Suicide for Eating Disorders

NDY Joins in Statement Against Assisted Suicide for Eating Disorders August 1, 2024 The Disability Rights Organization Not Dead Yet in has joined in solidarity with over 100 other organizations and experts to release a joint statement calling on governments to halt the practice of assisted suicide for individuals with eating disorders. This statement is… Read More Disabilities Rights Organizations Fight Assisted Suicide for Eating Disorders

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6000 terrorists infiltrated Israel: The real numbers.

Newly-revealed numbers show that 6,000 terrorists – including 2,200 Gazan ‘civilians’ – infiltrated Israeli territory on October 7, and 1,000 more fired on Israel from Gazan territory. Aug 31, 2024, 9:20 PM (GMT+3) On October 7, 6,000 (not 3,000) terrorists infiltrated Israeli territory, of them, 3,800 were Hamas Nukhba terrorists and another 2,200 were Gazan… Read More 6000 terrorists infiltrated Israel: The real numbers.

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Silent prayer could soon become a crime in UK.

Labour’s plan to beef up the buffer zones around abortion clinics would literally criminalise the thoughts in your head. The previous Conservative government did, at least, recognise that such prosecutions were excessive. Before implementing Section 9, the Home Office published draft guidance last year encouraging a light touch in enforcing it. One thing it emphasised was that… Read More Silent prayer could soon become a crime in UK.

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Science or Big Business? Global Warming Theory & Dissent

a 2007 British polemical documentary film directed by Martin Durkin. The film denies the scientific consensus about the reality and causes of climate change, justifying this by suggesting that climatology is influenced by funding and political factors. The show attracted 2.5 million viewers and an audience share of 11.5%. Channel 4 stated that it had received 758 calls and emails about the programme, with those in… Read More Science or Big Business? Global Warming Theory & Dissent

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0ur Daily Bread. What did Our Lord eat on a typical day?

The short answer: a lot of bread. Bread was a staple in the typical daily diet in the first-century Greco-Roman world, supplemented with limited amounts of local fruits and vegetables, oil, and salt.  Bread in first-century Galilee would have been made with wheat or barley flour. Cooks had to grind grain into flour by hand using a tool called a… Read More 0ur Daily Bread. What did Our Lord eat on a typical day?

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Queen Among Warmongers

Hillary Clinton’s Classified Documents Were Not Bleached, They Got Hammered. By Caitlin Johnstone. Queen Warmonger Hillary Clinton Complains About “Men Starting Wars”. During her self-titled annual awards ceremony at Georgetown University …, Hillary Clinton said that the biggest obstacle to peace and security around the world is “men starting wars.” During the Q&A segment of the event, Clinton was… Read More Queen Among Warmongers

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UK “Operation Early Dawn”:  Out with convicts, in with social protestors

“The government has activated emergency measures to ease prison overcrowding as more rioters are being sentenced for their role in recent unrest. Across the north of England and parts of the midlands defendants waiting for a court appearance will be kept in police cells until prison space is available. The system, known as Operation Early… Read More UK “Operation Early Dawn”:  Out with convicts, in with social protestors

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Dr. James Lindsay on the Theosophy of Teilhard de Chardin

“Leftism is religious. In fact, it’s occult-mystical religious, a vast suite of denominations of “transformative” religions of “Progress.” Progress toward what, though? Higher consciousness, in fact, collective consciousness, which is supposedly man’s true but forgotten nature. The goal: to evolve humanity, collectively, to become master of the universe, which is to say God. This religion and… Read More Dr. James Lindsay on the Theosophy of Teilhard de Chardin

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Rory Stewart Attempts to Explain the History of the Israeli – Palestinian Conflicts

“How did Hamas launch one of the largest invasions on Israeli territory in recent history? What happens now? Will this conflict have geo-political ramifications throughout the Middle East? Join Rory and Alastair for this emergency episode of The Rest Is Politics. The CNN interview Rory mentions was with Palestinian National Initiative leader Mustafa Barghouti.” —… Read More Rory Stewart Attempts to Explain the History of the Israeli – Palestinian Conflicts

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Bioethicists scrutinize Pontifical Academy for Life’s new guidance on withdrawing food, water

CNA. After the Pontifical Academy for Life (PAFL) last month issued a booklet summarizing the Church’s teaching on a number of bioethical issues, the section on “artificial nutrition and hydration” (ANH) has some observers concerned about what they see as a departure from previous Church teaching.  The Pontifical Academy for Life was founded in 1994 by St.… Read More Bioethicists scrutinize Pontifical Academy for Life’s new guidance on withdrawing food, water

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A Note on Dr. Larry Chapp — at the edge of Hell. Nothing to lose.

Larry Chapp seems to express a kind of anxiety or apprehension in this video discussion about the obvious problem of the traditional magisterium as he comes “out of the closet” and reveals himself to be, of all things, an eschatological “universalist” wherein, in the end, we can all hope that Scripture and Tradition will be… Read More A Note on Dr. Larry Chapp — at the edge of Hell. Nothing to lose.

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You May Know This Man

A self-identified socialist priest, Helder Pessoa Câmara (1909 – 1999) was an advocate of liberation theology. He did social and political work for  “human rights and democracy”. Câmara preached for a church closer to the disfavoured people .  But that’s only part of his lies story…(more in the video). Get the film Benedict XVI and Liberation Theology National… Read More You May Know This Man

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Karl Marx’s Racism

There are plenty of good reasons to abandon the teachings of Karl Marx. by Jarrett Stepman.The Daily Signal | July 13, 2020. Karl Marx (1818-1883) was a German philosopher, economist, and sociologist whose writings formed the basis of modern communism.  Here’s What You Need to Remember: By the standards of modern “anti-racist” ideologies, Marx, Engels, and the whole… Read More Karl Marx’s Racism

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Lenin everlasting. On the totalitarian’s continued relevance.

The New Criterion.June 2024. Later in this issue, Gary Saul Morson writes about Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s masterwork The Gulag Archipelago. Much of that book is devoted to the details of the dehumanizing brutality of the Stalinist regime: its terrifying sadism and staggering assault on basic human dignity. The Stalinist horror show, in which terror was perfected in… Read More Lenin everlasting. On the totalitarian’s continued relevance.

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David Starkey on Keir Starmer & Schellenberger on “Tyranny”

Supremacy and Rule of Lawyers… “What does Keir Starmer actually want? The UK’s new Labour prime minister is usually described as moderate, pragmatic and non-ideological. Here, historian and broadcaster David Starkey argues that this is an illusion. Starmer, Starkey explains, is a fierce anti-democrat. He wants to transfer power from the UK’s elected parliament to… Read More David Starkey on Keir Starmer & Schellenberger on “Tyranny”

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Nagasaki Was A Strike Against Japan And The Catholic Church

Victor Gaetan is senior international correspondent for the National Catholic Register 8/21. The closer we look at decisions to deploy a second atomic weapon against Japan on August 9, [1945…] the more morally audacious the tactic appears. Step outside the American explanatory cloud—we bombed military installations to force unconditional imperial surrender—defining public understanding to see:… Read More Nagasaki Was A Strike Against Japan And The Catholic Church

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Opinion. Rory Sewart & Alastair John Campbell on Riots in the UK and American Politics

Updated re Alastair Campbell and Douglas Murray. 8/13/24.  Rory Stewart, is a British academic, broadcaster, writer and former diplomat and politician. He served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Penrith and The Border between 2010 and 2019, representing the Conservative Party. Stewart served in the UK Government as Minister of State for Environment (2015-16), International Development (2015-16), Africa (2016-18) and Prisons (2018-19) and then as Secretary of State for International Development (2019). In 2019, Stewart stood for Leader of… Read More Opinion. Rory Sewart & Alastair John Campbell on Riots in the UK and American Politics

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Archbishop Sheen’s Warning of a Crisis in Christendom. 1974.

National Catholic Register. With a saintly long-ranging spiritual vision, Ven. Fulton J. Sheen saw the roots of today’s crisis firmly planted and growing in 1974, but he gave us an antidote. Joseph Pronechen July 29, 2018 “First of all, we are at the end of Christendom,” Archbishop Fulton Sheen solemnly said during a television show in… Read More Archbishop Sheen’s Warning of a Crisis in Christendom. 1974.

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