9/30/26. Updated. Is there more reason to beware? Sacred Scripture says “The coming of the lawless one by the activity of Satan will be with all power and with lying signs and wonders” —2 Thessalonians 2:9. Blessings to those who are helped. They receive gifts despite the means which in the hands of men like… Read More They will make the blind to see and the lame to walk…
In JMT’s first Christian album, in the very first song after the Gloria and through many, many other albums, he uses a very small closing musical phrase to tie up a stanza, heard in this instance after the second chorus and the words “… Let us come with thanksgivingAnd sing songs of joy to the… Read More My request
Saint Alphonsus Liguori on the “ordinary” and sometimes daily sins of people who consider themselves blameless, innocent. “The whispering tongue also is a fire, a world of evil among the parts of the body. It corrupts the whole body, sets the whole course of one’s life on fire, and is itself set on fire by hell.”—James 3:6… Read More Gossip, Whisperers & Detraction: “Triple Murder”
“Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and in my flesh I complete what is lacking in Christ’s afflictions for the sake of his body, that is, the church, 25 of which I became a minister according to the divine office which was given to me for you, to make the word of God fully… Read More The Cross. Fr. Gabriel of St. Mary Magdalen. 1954.
Are modern smartphones and algorithms destroying our capacity for deep thought? In this video essay, Dr. Ryan Topping breaks down the science of attention, addresses 3 myths of the digital mind, and provides 4 practical, tactical skills to master hard books and rebuild your focus.
+ John Paul II on the most decisive confrontation and “history’s last lap.” Karol Wojtyla (St.JPII) wrote, “A non-Catholic philosopher once said to me: ‘You know, I just can’t stop myself reading and rereading and thinking over the first three chapters of Genesis.’ And indeed it seems to me that unless one does so reflect… Read More Popes St. John Paul II and St. Pius X on the AntiWord
Hard Sayings. “For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience [in suffering in Him] and comfort of the scriptures might have hope” of redemption. — Romans 15:4 John 15 18 “If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you. 19 If you were of the… Read More More Terrible Times to Come for Many Christian Families.
‘The desert in the city’, I repeated over and over to myself, looking out of the window, my thoughts reaching to the distant origin of this word ‘desert’ which had been laid on my heart at the best moment of my life. I thought back to nights in the Sahara, to the sand-dunes, to all… Read More The Desert in the City. Carlo Carretto.
Simple acts of charity can leave a lasting impact on both the giver and the recipient. Furthermore, they highlight the human connections that charity fosters, strengthening relationships within communities. By understanding personal accounts of charity, readers can develop a deeper appreciation for altruism and its role in enhancing personal and collective well-being. —Blissful balance Forgiveness… Read More Simple Acts of Charity
“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 of the Faith. No Substantial Evolution of Meaning.
Archbishop (Blessed) Fulton J. Sheen
Only illness at home could make me late posting this. Raymond Arroyo is joined by Fr. Gerald Murray, priest of the Archdiocese of New York, and Robert Royal, editor-in-chief of TheCatholicThing.org, for a very special edition of The World Over from St. Louis, Missouri on the occasion of the Beatification of Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen.… Read More A Blessed Day for the Church!
Preaching to the infirmed, disabled and those who care for them at one of Catholicism’s most iconic shrines, Pope Leo XIV said that “no human law should ever make you lose the certainty of your dignity.” National Catholic Reporter Pope Leo XIV celebrates Sunday Mass at the field alongside the Sanctuary of Our Lady of… Read More From Lourdes, Pope Leo issues stark rejection of France’s assisted dying law
It is not without significance that Divine Mercy Sunday Follows Easter. For Mercy is the fruit of Easter. And Jesus came not to call the righteous but sinners into his kingdom (Luke 5:32). He came “to seek and to save that which was lost”. Mercy is the revelation of the very heart of God and the Good… Read More Nihilism and the Divine Pity
“The doctrine of the Faith which God has revealed is not proposed like a theory of philosophy to be elaborated by the human understanding, but as a divine deposit delivered to the spouse of Christ to be faithfully guarded and infallibly declared…. That sense of the sacred dogmas is to be faithfully kept which Holy Mother Church… Read More Not Proposed Like A Philosophical Theory
Bad and evil ideas have been far more virulent in history than silver, gold, or geopolitical schemes. Our modern errors arose out of the weeds of bad Christian soil, fueled by concupiscence and backed by diverse and mighty powers. King Henry VIII’s ecclesial revolution in England, born in lust and ending in the vast dissolution of the… Read More Philosophers of the New Light
“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
“And lawyers haven’t been this popular /Since Robespierre slaughtered half of France“. Lyrics Sex Kills Joni Mitchell “I pulled up behind a CadillacWe were waiting for the lightAnd I took a look at his license plateAnd it said “Just Ice”. Is justice just ice?Governed by greed and lust.Just the strong doing what they can.And the… Read More Sex Kills. Joni Mitchell pulls up the cultural shades. 2004.
When in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries the avant-garde was given diverse powerful platforms to announce that traditional art forms were passé, and art galleries exchanged space for the mystic likes of Picasso, Surrealism, and, in some degree, Andy Warhol, etc., they arguably prepared the way for the denial of natural gender distinctions and the… Read More From Rembrandt to Picasso
When I began this website it was after I had debated within myself, video podcasts or the written word? God knows I’m handsome enough to do a podcast 🙃. But then I thought that since I wanted to confess the faith, despite my frailties and sins, for my grandchildren’s generation especially, the written word is… Read More Podcast Video or the Written Word?
“Angels are often depicted in art playing stringed instruments like lutes, which are part of a larger family of musical instruments known as chordophones. These instruments produce sound through the vibration of strings, and lutes specifically have a body and a neck that stretches the strings, allowing for a variety of musical expressions. instrushare.com.au / Encyclopedia… Read More Heaven Must Love Stringed Instruments
Roberto de Mattei. “In the Gospels, Jesus makes use of many metaphors to describe the Church He founded. One of the most fitting is the image of the boat threatened by the tempest (Matt. 8:23–27; Mark 4:35–41; Luke 8:22–25). This image was often used by the Church Fathers and saints, who spoke of the Church… Read More The “true reform” that the Church needed in the 20th century
Dr. Arthur Holmes, History of Philosophy. Wheaton College: Repetitio est mater studiorum. 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… Read More History of Philosophy Lectures
Is A Personal* God Improbable? Or is it we who are improbable? Atheism has traditionally scoffed at belief in a God who is Personal or SupraPersonal. I’ve always found their position to be a counterintuitive curiosity. One of the reasons why is that I find myself, a personal being, to exist. I am here. You… Read More A Personal Universe. Creation.
Brennan loved to read, and as such, filled his books and talks with stories he’d found along the way, stories that always gave texture to the invasion of grace in our world. And in that spirit, I’d like to share with you a scene from Kent Meyers’ novel Twisted Tree; and although he has never… Read More Once a priest always a priest.
Tech Moguls, Financial Elites and the Danger of Oligarchy. “What Marxism got right is this: Social classes exist; some of the time, they have some common interests that conflict with the interests of other classes; and class inequality can, if allowed to grow too extreme, become a major social problem. Conservatives once widely recognized at least the… Read More What Marxism Got Right
Rory and Alastair’s Future Worker’s Paradise. The aim has been to tear apart the Christian world and its traditional moral values from the beginning, and to substitute a “Rules Based” “Liberal” Order in a locked down global State. Families would be forever changed by abortion, pill, surgery or legal coercion, children would be pressured away… Read More How Grim Is Their Valley
Pope Benedict XVI: “The church will become small and will have to start afresh more or less from the beginning. She will no longer be able to inhabit many of the edifices she built in prosperity. As the number of her adherents diminishes . . . she will lose many of her social privileges. . .… Read More Blessed are they who endure. The Storms That Threaten.
Eichmann was no slovenly dressed bohemian. His pants were always impeccably creased, his tie knot kept straight, and his shoes were ever clicking and shining. In all of this he saw discipline and virtue. –SH. Thomas Merton. Morality itself is brought into complete contempt by the Eichmann story, by Eichmann’s own appeal to his virtues.… Read More Eichmann on Virtue and Obedience.
Many are looking not to the Tucker-Candace asylum but to this hispanic-speaking steadfast man whose family knows Communism very well indeed. Check out his eloquence here. No endorse of all of the opinions of American Liberty Magazine is implied. The concern here is Leftist ideology pure and simple. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn argued that socialism inherently involves… Read More The Eloquent Marco. Full analysis.
…. He chose to rule out any deity a priori even as he was fulfilling God’s will to the very letter, as we all will: “It is appointed for man once to die and after this the judgment“— Heb. 9:27 Nietzsche first went mad fighting fate (his choices) and subsequently passed away according to God’s… Read More Nietzsche was Doing Precisely God’s will
The Litany of the Saints (Litaniae Sanctorum) is a formal prayer used in the Catholic Church (and other Christian communities) that asks God for mercy and help while calling on the saints to intercede. It is especially sung during ceremonies like the Easter Vigil and during Holy Orders. “we acknowledge a King men did not crown… Read More Liturgy of the Saints
By Father Gabriel of St Mary Magalene, 1953. O Lord, increase my confidence in Your help and grant that in this confidence, I may always find courage to begin again. What most distresses souls of good will who are seriously trying to live a spiritual life, is to find themselves falling so many times, despite… Read More The Courage To Begin Yet Again
Crux Now’s Editor-in-Chief Charles Collins speaks with National Review’s Kathryn Jean Lopez about how legal assisted suicide in England will lead to “disaster.”
The Obama Years. “…on page 786 of Ecoscience, [John] Holdren writes, “Indeed, it has been concluded that compulsory population-control laws, even including laws requiring compulsory abortion, could be sustained under the existing Constitution…On page 838, he states, “If some individuals contribute to general social deterioration by overproducing children, and if the need is compelling, they can be required… Read More Depopulation and the Assault on Gender by Phillip D. Collins
The Lindsay Clancy case continues to attract lunatics on TikTok who will say anything to defend an alleged child killer. Note: I only disagree with Walsh on the penalty in this particular case.
The multi-billon dollar error. Psychology Today. Note: if these drugs work for you, good. But if the following report rings true in relation to your experience it is important that you speak with your provider about choosing a careful withdrawal plan and new path to recovery. Doctors warn against withdrawing suddenly as it may be… Read More Opinion. A Decisive Blow to the Serotonin Hypothesis of Depression
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“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 Debt to Parents
Malcolm Muggeridge. “… Confronted with [our] crazy contradiction between, on the one hand, so many hungry sheep, and, on the other, so many over-indulged ones under constant pressure and persuasion to indulge themselves further, what is to be done? There are those who very properly attempt to rectify the balance by charitable endeavour or political… Read More Malcolm Muggeridge on the teachings of Jesus
