“…as far as election is concerned, they are loved on account of the patriarchs…”. Roman 11: 28 “This guilt [for the death of Christ] seems more enormous in us than in the Jews, since according to the testimony of the same Apostle: ‘If they had known it, they would never have crucified the Lord of… Read More He lived and walked there. He wept over Jerusalem. He was scourged, died and Rose again there.
The Communist Manifesto discusses the idea of abolishing the family, arguing that the traditional family structure supports capitalism and patriarchy, making individuals dependent and alienated. Marx and Engels suggest that the family, as it exists in bourgeois society, is a product of historical conditions and can change as society evolves. October 11, 2022 | Maria Keffler. GospelCoalition.com… Read More How to Respond If Your Child ‘Comes Out’
Updated. Candace Owens has reportedly hired a Jewish lawyer in the Macron case. We’ll see if the report holds. “The MAGA movement is experiencing internal conflicts, with factions like those led by Tucker Carlson and Marjorie Taylor Greene criticizing Donald Trump’s policies, particularly his handling of the Iran war. These divisions highlight growing tensions within… Read More The Crackpots
“When war broke out in September 1939, Pound began a letter-writing campaign to the politicians he had petitioned months earlier.[296] On 18 June 1940, after the fall of France, he wrote to Senator Burton K. Wheeler: “I have read a regulation that only those foreigners are to be admitted to the U.S. who are deemed… Read More Robert Frost and Ezra Pound
“A little error in the beginning becomes a great error in the end.” — St. Thomas Aquinas. “He said to him, ‘If they do not hear Moses and the prophets, neither will they be convinced if some one should rise from the dead.’” –Lk.16:31. “See to it that no one makes a prey of you… Read More Pseudoscience and Origins
Return to the beginning. Notes: This is an illustration of C.S Lewis’ third talk of the third radio series called ‘What Christians Believe’. This became Chapter 3 of Book 2, in the book called ‘Mere Christianity’. One need not accept Lewis’ notion of a “mere’ Christianity to appreciate the insights which are sketched here and… Read More The Shocking Alternative by C.S. Lewis.
Vijay Kumar Verma. Life…is a strange kind of journey. Not loud.Not always clear.But deeply, quietly… real. Some days,it wraps you in sunlight—like everything finally makes sense. And some days…it casts a shadow over your soul,and you’re left searching for piecesyou didn’t even know you lost. We walk…and walk…and somewhere along the way,we lose ourselves. Only… Read More The Strange Journey
…and women are being raped. See the protest here
I’m Brennan. I’m an alcoholic. How I got there, why I left there, why I went back, is the story of my life. But it is not the whole story. I’m Brennan. I’m a Catholic. How I got there, why I left there, why I went back, is also the story of my life. But… Read More He lost everything but God’s love
“Everything which comes to pass has been foreseen by God from all eternity, and has been willed or at least permitted by Him“. ”Many are the plans in a man’s heart, but it is the Lord’s purpose that prevails.” (Prov. 19:21) Fr. Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange “Nothing comes to pass either in the material or in the spiritual… Read More Garrigou-Lagrange: Everything Which Comes to Pass is Foreseen…
[Photo: Religious Art in Film. Franco Zefferilli’s Jesus of Nazareth.] The Easter cards we see in ordinary stores give little hint of the shock of the disciples at seeing the empty tomb and beholding the risen Christ. And certainly not of the terrible trauma and ignominy which Our Lord had just gone through: the betrayal,… Read More Christ’s Victory Over Death and Postmodern Despair
Glen Scrivener reacts to Dominic Sandbrook’s recent comments on LBC regarding Tom Holland’s views on Islam. They concern a line Holland said on the Triggernometry podcast. See Sandbrook and Holland here. Implications of Holland’s Views This exchange underscores the complexities surrounding discussions of religion and history, particularly in the context of modern societal values and… Read More Historians Clash Over Islam
Back to the Gospel. I’m aware of what some might criticize as his own form of soft theological and political Leftism, but Bono is certainly correct to this extent: Yahweh. U2 “Take these shoes-Click clacking down some dead end street-Take these shoes-And make them fit-Take this shirt-Polyester white trash made in nowhere-Take this shirt-And make… Read More Crazy political zealotry, Far Left and Right.
“Flagrant public executions of protesters by the thousands by the Iranian regime in January moved residents to cheer on the initial days of attacks by U.S. and Israeli forces as Operation Epic Fury began on Feb. 28.” — More U.S. Bishops Call for Confronting Antisemitism Recognizing our bond with the Jewish people as brothers and… Read More Few Care For Terror State Iran, Many Hate Jews Viscerally.
The Church is intolerant in principle because she believes; she is tolerant in practice because she loves. The enemies of the Church are tolerant in principle, because they do not believe, and intolerant in practice because they do not love.” —Fr. Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange.
One need not be rooting for Vladimir Putin (I certainly don’t) to see the corruption game going on in Ukraine with no interference from the European Union. Here Alastair Campbell, the self-styled “Leftist Internationalist” stands corrected after being schooled by Ukrainian activists about Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy
Tom Donald is the founder and principal of the London Contemporary School of Piano. A composer, and educator who has revolutionized piano education through his emphasis on chords, improvisation, and real-world experience. A passionate advocate for adult amateur musicians, he helps students tap into their inner genius and achieve musical transformations. Donald has taught over… Read More Can random chords actually make music? If so, how?
If I were in our son’s condition, paralyzed since 2006 and subject to recurring pneumonias and even more grave infections and invasive procedures, I have often thought how depressed I would be. As anyone who knows him would tell you, the light in Jeremy’s eyes, seen here below, may be a little brighter than usual,… Read More Jeremy and Massachusetts
Matt. 18: 15-17 If Your Brother Sins Against You 15 “ … go and tell him his fault, between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained your brother. 16 But if he does not listen, take one or two others along with you, that every charge may be established by the evidence… Read More When We See Another Person Sinning
NCReporter. 4/7/26 Catholics across the ideological spectrum, including Pope Leo XIV, expressed alarm and condemned President Donald Trump’s threat that “a whole civilization will die tonight” unless Iran strikes a deal with the United States by 8 p.m. Eastern on April 7. Leo XIV called the threats “truly unacceptable” and said that such attacks would violate… Read More Pope Leo XIV calls Trump’s threat to end Iran ‘truly unacceptable’
It was a dream. Needless to say, it was not a vision. If I ever had a vision I would likely run for the psychiatric couch, not to a pope. I cannot remember whether it was a day or a night dream. The city hung heavy over us all. I was lifting a lantern before… Read More The City and the Cross
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.
By Colleen Barry and Trisha Thomas, AP Friday, April 3, 2026 8:43PM Pope Leo XIV carried a wooden cross for all of the 14 stations of the Way of the Cross at the Colosseum on his first Good Friday as pontiff, marking the first time in decades that a pope carried the cross to every… Read More Pope Leo XIV carries Good Friday cross; the first pontiff to do so in decades
“…the rejection of the transcendent, [is] a one-way street to Dachau”. Samuel T. Francis+ wrote, “… [M]odernism denies or ignores God and concentrates on secular knowledge and action. Human knowledge then can be only empirical; moral statements can be only relative or factual, there being a dichotomy between fact and value; and human action cannot… Read More Modernism & ‘Science’s’ One-way Street.
Unlike so many today, Archbishop Fulton Sheen was biblically-centered. He explicitly rejected Modernistic reinterpretations of Sacred Scripture(1). Here for 4 1/2 continuous hours Bishop Sheen expounds with great erudition on Christ’s Passion and death and beyond, What God has done for us…This is an incomparable Sheen gift for Holy Week —and beyond. Get Sign of… Read More Fulton J Sheen. Holy Week. Sign of Contradiction: Good Friday and Beyond
🎶 “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…” 🎵
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
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
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
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
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
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
