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
The song starts off with a slow intro in which the abandoned husband describes his two sons. “If you look at them both for awhile, you can see that are you, they are me,” he says, beautifully summing up the way we see ourselves in our children, not just physically but emotionally. “You should have… Read More Time Out. Sinatra: Michael and Peter
Consider Materialism. Whatever his origin, if man is presently and constantly “evolving” in a godless universe, then it follows that his thinking, and especially his philosophical views, cannot be worth much ultimately; his thoughts would be inherently unstable, unguided, random, merely emerging fragments in process, or mutation, on route to nowhere. / sh
& Sarah’s feminism. Yes Minister is a British political satire sitcom written by Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn. Comprising three seven-episode series, it was first transmitted on BBC2 from 1980 to 1984. A sequel, Yes, Prime Minister, ran for 16 episodes from 1986 to 1988. All but one of the episodes lasted half an hour, and almost all ended with a variation of the… Read More Theology is a Progressive Device? 😟
“Someone said, drink the water, but I will drink the wineSomeone said, take a poor man, rich folk don’t have a dime Go fool yourselves if you will, I just haven’t got the timeYes you can drink the water (yes you can drink the water)But I will drink the wine Someone gave me some small… Read More Time Out. Sinatra’s Cup.
Father Jacques Philippe Commentaries, October 1, 2025 | National Catholic Register This year, the Catholic Church celebrates the centenary of the canonization of St. Thérèse of Lisieux. On the occasion of the 150th anniversary of her birth in 2023, Pope Francis wrote an apostolic exhortation entitled “It Is Trust,” which is a beautiful synthesis of the spirituality… Read More The Little Way of Saint Thérèse of Lisieux Is a Path of Hope
The Telegraph 2024 Is the UN still relevant? The organisation faces numerous unresolved conflicts, a cash crisis, deep polarisation among its members, a bloated bureaucracy and the waning interest of its biggest backer, the US. Venetia Rainey speaks to Richard Gowan, veteran UN watcher and UN director for the US think tank International Crisis Group.… Read More Is the UN Still Relevant?
“I appeal also to philosophers, and to all teachers of philosophy, asking them to have the courage to recover, in the flow of an enduringly valid philosophical tradition, the range of authentic wisdom and truth — metaphysical truth included — which is proper to philosophical inquiry — John Paul II, Fides et Ratio # 106… Read More John Paul II’s Battle Against Nihilism
NOR editor, Pieter Vree, writes, “The NOR was contacted by a neocon foundation — right out of the blue” …”As my father wrote, “We at the NOR are glad to be independent of the ideological bigwigs. We don’t have to run around on the New York and D.C. cocktail-party circuit. We don’t have to kiss… Read More New Oxford Review’s Finest Hour
By Dr. Richard Bauckham. A groundbreaking work in New Testament studies, expanded and updated. Winner of the 2007 Christianity Today Book Award in Biblical Studies, this momentous volume argues that the four Gospels are closely based on the eyewitness testimony of those who personally knew Jesus. Noted New Testament scholar Richard Bauckham challenges the prevailing assumption that… Read More Jesus and the Eyewitnesses
It was fascinating to watch Mike Pompeo shock duo. Rory was as jumpy as a stage monkey. He knew he had been hashed. So they tried in vain to recover, i.e., by ad hominem, after Pompeo had left the studio. If you wish to see how obsequious and temperamental the posh one can become when… Read More Mike Pompeo Tells Stewart and Campbell No Way A Two State Solution
Neither Socialism nor lassez faire CapitalismOctober 1, 2001 | By Mark and Louise Zwick The following was a talk given at the American Chesterton Society annual conference in St. Paul, Minnesota, in June 2001. Dorothy Day and G. K. Chesterton were contemporaries. Both came into Catholicism in the 1920’s, Chesterton in 1922 at age 48… Read More G.K. Chesterton and Dorothy Day on Economics
Moses said to the LORD, “Pardon your servant, Lord. I have never been eloquent, neither in the past nor since you have spoken to your servant. I am slow of speech and tongue.” — Exodus 4:10 I know the feeling. Someone said, writing is easy, It is the editing that is hard. I hope visitors… Read More Slow of Speech and Tongue
“Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.” (Jn. 15:13) The Alleged Killer Full 33-hour timeline of Tyler Robinson’s movements… and the frightening gaps unaccounted for Joe Hutchinson, US News Reporter Daily Mail, UK, 18 September 2025p PROVO, Utah — Tyler Robinson, the 22-year-old accused of… Read More No Greater Love
W.B Yeats “When You Are Old” is a poem by W.B. Yeats that reflects on love and aging, urging the addressee to remember their past beauty and the true love that transcends superficial admiration. It is often interpreted as a poignant reminder of the deeper connections in life. Verses below. By William Butler Yeats When you… Read More When You Are Old.
“Never be entirely idle; but either be reading, or writing, or praying or meditating or endeavoring something for the public good.”— Thomas a Kempis, 15th century
Best friends & much more forever 51 years and counting in 2025 Kahlil Gibran “You were born [again]] together, and together you shall be forevermore… But let there be spaces in your togetherness, and let the winds of the heavens dance between you.” ‘For better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health… Read More In Sickness and in Health, For Better or for Worse, for Richer or for poorer…till death do we part.
…Taylor.” Strange to place her here, but it’s a Time Out and it was the song which drew me in. “The song [see pg. bottom] is a hauntingly tender ballad from his 1970 concept album Watertown. The album itself is a departure from his usual style—it’s a narrative-driven piece (summary song). 🎶 About the Song:… Read More Time Out. Sinatra: “Elizabeth”
And a discussion about the friends and supporters of Antifa Victor Davis Hanson: In a recent and now widely seen Tucker Carlson interview, a guest named Darryl Cooper casually presented a surprising number of flawed theories about the Second World War. He focused his misstatements on the respective roles of Winston Churchill’s Britain and Adolf… Read More The “Lunacy of the Anti- Churchillians”
St. Patrick’s Cathedral in Manhattan has unveiled a 25-foot-tall mural honoring migrants to New York City. Housed in the entryway of the iconic New York church, the mural, “What’s So Funny About Peace, Love, and Understanding,” portrays the apparition of Mary, Joseph, and St. John the Evangelist to the Irish village of Knock as well… Read More Massive mural honoring NYC migrants unveiled at St. Patrick’s Cathedral
By Brendan O’Neill, Spiked Online “Normally a left-wing party has to exist before it can start splitting. Not Your Party. The Corbyn-Sultana loonfest has leapt right over the founding conference and manifesto-writing business and gone straight for the People’s Front of Judea routine. This fledgling gang of soy socialists that promised to save Britain from… Read More The collapse of Your Party is hilarious — Opinion
The Jerusalem Report By JACOB SIVAK Published: MARCH 10, 2022 15:54 The renowned American author and masterful satirist Samuel Clemens, also known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an abolitionist, a supporter of women’s rights and a supporter of Jewish emancipation. His attitude toward Jews is evident in his earliest book, The Innocents Abroad (1869). The book chronicles… Read More Was Mark Twain’s depiction of Israel in the 1800s accurate?
The suspect in Charlie Kirk’s assassination became ‘more political’ in recent years and spoke about disliking the conservative activist’s ideas, officials said on Thursday. The suspect was named as 22-year-old Tyler Robinson, from Washington, Utah. Robinson was turned into police overnight by his father and a minister in southern Utah after authorities shared images of the… Read More Kirk’s Alleged Assassin Motive Revealed
Who were they? Why was Alger Hiss convicted as a perjurer? In this episode of America’s Untold Stories, we delve into the intriguing story of Whittaker Chambers and Alger Hiss and uncover the fascinating connection between these two individuals. Whittaker Chambers, a former Soviet spy turned anti-communist, and Alger Hiss, a prominent American government official,… Read More Cold War Spies: Whittaker Chambers v. Alger Hiss
Charlie Kirk, the founder of the conservative youth activist organization Turning Point USA, has died after he was shot during an event at Utah Valley University on Wednesday, President Donald Trump said. “The Great, and even Legendary, Charlie Kirk, is dead,” Trump said on social media. “No one understood or had the Heart of the… Read More Outrageous
Hail, Victim of salvation! Eternal King! Incarnate Word, sacrificed for me and all mankind! Hail, precious Body of the Son of God! Hail, sacred flesh, torn with nails, pierced with a lance, and bleeding on a cross, for us poor sinners! O amazing goodness O infinite love! Oh! let that tender love plead now in… Read More Traditional Prayer at the Consecration
ByMichael LiedtkeSydney Morning HeraldOctober 21, 2020 In Google’s infancy, co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin reviled Microsoft as a technological bully that ruthlessly abused its dominance of the personal computer software market to choke off competition that could spawn better products. Their disdain for Microsoft spurred Google to adopt “Don’t be evil” as a corporate… Read More ‘Don’t be evil’: How Google evolved from ‘cuddly’ startup to antitrust target
Updated. Succinctly put, Judith Butler is a mess. You may not know her, but your daughter very likely will —or did. We can forget all about Butler’s sophist philosophical rationalizations. They are a mishmash of true and false. None lead necessarily to her systematic conclusions. Judith Butler has, by her own intentional will, become a… Read More Judith Butler, Feminist. A Brush of Her (or Its) Thought.
From the early 1970s to the early 1990s, Jimmy Page of Led Zeplin owned Boleskine House (See below) the former residence of occultist Aleister Crowley.[150][151] below. Sections of Page’s fantasy sequence in the film The Song Remains the Same were filmed at night on the mountainside directly behind Boleskine House.—Wikipedia Heart performs Stairway to Heaven at the Kennedy Center Honors for Led… Read More Composers of a New Stairway
The alleged Minnesota Catholic school shooter has been identified as Robin Westman, reportedly identified as a transgender activist. His manifesto included pride flags and a gun with “kiII Trump” etched onto it. –X. WAPO –The Shooter was ID’d after 2 children were killed, and 17 people injured at Minneapolis Catholic school Mass. Shooting site photo.… Read More Children killed and 17 people injured in shooting at Minneapolis Catholic school Mass
By Mitch Teemly. Old Myth: When a lady wants to be a mommy, a stork magically appears overhead with a baby in its beak and drops it into the lady’s house! But if the lady doesn’t want it–poof!–the stork takes it away! New Myth: When a lady wants to be a mommy, a lump of… Read More Where Do Babies Come From?
Updated. President Donald Trump said Monday there is a “reasonable chance of ending the war” if White House talks with Volodymyr Zelensky and European leaders pave the way for a trilateral meeting with Vladimir Putin. Key Details: Diving Deeper: President Donald Trump expressed cautious optimism on Monday that a long-awaited breakthrough in Ukraine could be… Read More Gotta love the smell of a Trump peace gathering in the morning
Extra Ecclesiam nulla Salus Dear Dr… Thank you very much for the revised version of your article on the theological understanding of the efficacy of the “baptisms” of desire and blood* for salvation [absent water baptism]—in certain circumstances. As you’ll see by the enclosed letter which I wrote to a friend, I am on the… Read More On Fr. Leonard Feeney
Better to act practically alone than to associate in any way with the views of newbie (or oldie) publicity-seeking “Catholics” like #CandaceOwens (or her spiritual father[s]). They’re embarrassing. But look at the size of her following. What it says about our times is frightening. SH. The 1566 Catechism of the Council of Trent states: “This guilt… Read More Candace and Her Spiritual Father(s)
During a conversation on “Washington Week with the Atlantic,” ABC News chief Washington correspondent Jon Karl, MSNBC’s Jonathan Lemire, and The New York Times White House correspondent Tyler Pager were discussing President Donald Trump’s announcement that he and private donors would foot the bill for a new ballroom costing $200 million at the White House. “I mean, he’s planning… Read More NYT Reporter: Trump “Way More Effective” in Second Term
Apropos of everything: Because Martin Heidegger forsook his early roots in Thomistic [objective] Christian philosophy, the unapologetic Nazi who enjoyed philosophy was forced to create a new and eccentric philosophical superstructure [undecipherable and irrelevant to most human beings] to dodge the consequent existential void. It was necessary because his system toppled the Holy Trinity in… Read More Being and Bunk.
Faculty said to be “demoralized,” students “totally perplexed”. Dr. Janet Smith explains the implications. Dr. Smith, former Professor at Sacred Heart Major Seminary in Detroit, on the recent dismissals of several distinguished professors there. Dr. Ralph Martin speaks…
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
You are my hiding place. You will protect me from trouble and surround me with songs of deliverance. “… Cleanse me with hyssop, and I will be clean; wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.Let me hear joy and gladness; let the bones you have crushed rejoice.Hide your face from my sins and blot out all my iniquity. Create in… Read More Blessed is the One Whose Sins Are Forgiven
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