Heck, we don’t to want turn away important allies in seeking to restore at least some “old” values anywhere, and it’s got to be better than what Kamala Harris was selling, but some of this is seeming a bit exploitative and schlocky. SH. “Viewers tuning into Fox News on Thursday afternoon were treated to an… Read More Selling America? Donald Trump Hawking Bibles, Sneakers and cologne.
…Or does he want to develop them with Ukraine to the benefit of the American people? Opinion. Washington Post 12/18/24 Donald Trump often says that liberating Iraq without getting its oil resources was one of America’s biggest foreign policy blunders. He has a chance to avoid a similar mistake in Ukraine. Ukraine is not only… Read More Does Trump Want Putin to Get Ukraine’s $26 trillion in gas and minerals?
LifeNews: The Biden administration is pressuring Sierra Leone to pass an unpopular pro-abortion bill before President-elect Donald Trump takes office, a former senior U.S. government official who has worked in the West African region told The Daily Signal. It is common knowledge among nongovernmental organizations, or NGOs, in Sierra Leone that a U.S. foreign aid agency… Read More Biden to Deny African Nation $480 Million in Aid if It Doesn’t Legalize Abortion
Physical condition Besides the stigmata which he bore most of his life and the lifelong periods of the dark Night of the soul, “Padre Pio’s medical reports [from the time he was a young man and then friar], as was evident from the symptoms mentioned in the letters, never showed a clean bill of health.… Read More The Divine Illnesses and “Wasted Body” of Padre Pio of Pietrelcina
Makes one wonder what his post-Trump plans will be. “Musk’s posts on X have received a total of 133 billion views since July, data analysis by The Washington Post shows. That’s 15 times Trump’s audience in the same period —- and more than 16 times the combined reach of all accounts belonging to members of… Read More Musk Outranks Trump & Congress in Views on X By Orders of Magnitude
Fetaltissue.org. 2021. | “Fetal tissue vaccines are the everyday means by which pro-lifers unawares develop some complicity in an industry they oppose. Our aim is to accessibly summarise the relevant facts regarding fetal tissue vaccines — which are obscured behind a veil of academia and technical jargon, concealing from the public legitimate moral & ethical… Read More Fetal Tissue Vaccines: 12 Faulty Assumptions
“Failure is a better teacher than success.” Variants of this old saying have been attributed to a number of different people over the years. It has also been the rallying cry of sports teams, working professionals, academics, entrepreneurs and almost anyone else who has struggled, failed and been determined to come back stronger. People make… Read More 7 Famous Sinners and What We Can Learn From Them
Updated. 95% of all abortions are procured for elective not emergency reasons. Who needs Roe v. Wade anyway in this day and age? The beat goes on, just not the beating of the baby’s heart which can easily be stopped when decided upon. + ‘Planned Parenthood Direct’ ‘Telehealth’ App to Circumvent Funding Cuts + Why… Read More The Little Pills That Will “Terminate” With Extreme Prejudice. A Global Phenomenon.
And a response. It Ain’t Broke, But Let’s Fix It Anyhow June 2004 We picked up a Catholic magazine, and on the cover was one big headline, and it was a striking one: “Was Vatican II a Mistake?” In the background to the headline were a litany of post-Vatican II disasters: “practicing homosexuals in the… Read More The New Oxford Review Debate on Whether Vatican II Was Necessary
The Jewish Prolife Foundation: “Perhaps our Arab brothers are now fulfilling their role as they contend with us, reminding us that our birthright is contingent upon maintaining holiness. Holiness can be restored to Jerusalem in several ways. Israel can become self sufficient and God dependent again by manufacturing her own military hardware and instituting a… Read More Jewish Prolife Foundation: “cease to enable abortion, other lifestyle practices that violate morality”.
The Catholic people as individual souls and peoples, wherever we may be, may adapt and make our own the profession, pledge and spirit found in the salutary Preamble of the 1937 Irish Constitution which once restored* the Holy Trinity to absolute centrality and ultimacy, above all mere politics, for all humankind: “In the Name of… Read More To Which We Pledge Heart, Mind and Soul
“A major area of distress for [Dorothy Day] in the 1970’s was what seemed to her the erosion occurring in the spiritual life of her fellow Catholics, including those in the Catholic Worker movement. More than ever Catholics seemed attentive to social issues she had been raising for forty years, but they were increasingly neglectful… Read More The Real Dorothy Day
While vandalism and arson appear to have been ruled out (at the official level) in the 2019 Notre Dame Cathedral fire, the following reports sketched the context of concerns at the time. Catholic News Agency: “…. According to the most recent figures (as of 2021) from France’s central criminal intelligence unit, 877 attacks on Catholic places of… Read More 2019-2024 Look back: “Why France is losing one religious building every two weeks.”
28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus. 29 And if you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham’s descendants, heirs according to promise. Galatians 3:28-29 Not a few on the political far Right, alas, seem… Read More Not Ethnicity or Race, Not Blood and Soil…
Did “Hamas actually want Israel to invade Gaza? Is there a danger that this tragic situation will strengthen the hand of the ultra-nationalist Israeli right? How should the international community respond to the war between Israel and Hamas?Alastair Campbell and Rory Stewart last year were joined by Israeli historian Yuval Noah Harari to address all… Read More Can Israel Ever Live Peacefully With Gazans Again?
Dawn McCarty writes regarding our broken immigration system, “The immigration laws on the books are designed to fail. That is their purpose. Making it virtually impossible for most workers to be admitted legally, in the face of both a tremendous need for their labor in this country and the difficulty or impossibility of their getting… Read More Are Corporate Entities Deliberately Creating an Underclass of Low-Paid Workers?
Niall Ferguson, Victor Davis Hanson, and Andrew Roberts are senior fellows at the Hoover Institution and among the most prestigious and popular historians in the world. This is the first time they have appeared together in a public forum. Among the topics they cover in this wide-ranging discussion: the recent controversy regarding Winston Churchill’s role… Read More What the 1619 Project and Tucker Carlson Have in Common: Pseudo-history
“Dickens must have known it would have worked on the consciences of the Parliamentarians too, as it did!” At least for a time. “By advocating that population should be controlled voluntarily through birth control, abstinence, or delayed marriage – or involuntarily, and through the scourges “of war, famine, and disease,” [Thomas] Malthus was derided by his peers… Read More Scrooge and Thomas Malthus
Mgr. Louis Gaston de Ségur writes, “The good God does everything in His time. His wisdom united itself to His mercy in giving to the Church the divine treasure of the Heart of Jesus for the time when it was going to have the greatest need of it. The Savior said so Himself, first to… Read More The Sacred Heart in a Time of Tribulations
“O Lord, You are my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? You are the protector of my life; of whom shall I be afraid? If armies in camp should stand together against me, my heart shall not fear. If a battle should rise up against me, in this will I be confident. One… Read More Whom Shall I Fear? Expect the Lord.
“We, the Ordinary People of the Streets“. The words express the core of Madeleine Delbrel’s vision: These are the people who have an ordinary job, an ordinary household, or an ordinary celibacy. People with ordinary sicknesses, and ordinary times of grieving. People with an ordinary house, and ordinary clothes. These are the people of ordinary… Read More We the Ordinary
by Thomas W. Carroll.First Things.11 . 5 . 24 / An alarming number of children from Catholic families lose their faith during elementary and secondary school. By age thirteen, 50 percent fall away from the Church; by eighteen, it’s 86 percent. This exodus is not unique to Catholics—other Christian communities struggle with similar problems. But… Read More Reclaiming Our Catholic Schools
Matthew Hanley.The Catholic Thing.Jan 2012. It is no secret that secularists generally react to Christianity with hostility, but to Islam with obsequiousness – or silence in the face of belligerence and even of atrocities such as the Ft. Hood massacre. The most elementary explanation for this curious phenomenon, aside from cowardice, might simply come from… Read More Aquinas on Islam
Edward Pentin. National Catholic Register. Traditional Latin Mass communities are flourishing around the world with rising vocations and strong Mass attendance but their existence was ignored in the Synod on Synodality’s October assembly and final report. VATICAN CITY — One of the persistent criticisms of the final assembly of the Synod on Synodality has been… Read More Why Was the Synod So Silent on the Traditional Latin Mass?
Mocking retro-politics, retro-sexual morality and “Q-Anon Adjacent” traditional Catholics: “Beneath the veil of the internet’s ‘Trad Caths’”. “… there’s been an uptick in “Trad Cath” content — internet for “traditionalist Catholic” — promoting traditions like the Latin Mass and women wearing veils in church. A lot of these traditions are vibes and aesthetic-based, and easily… Read More NPR and the TLM
MARK ANTONIO WRIGHT November 6, 2024 7:11 AM The 2024 election will be discussed from a million angles. In the days and weeks ahead, the knives will come out in the ranks of the losers. Post-mortems will be written, and the arguments will be fought out over what could have been different or which strategies should have been tried.… Read More The Most Remarkable Political Comeback in American History
It is better to fear the world’s admiration than to fear its mockery or ostracization. “He to whom the eternal Word speaks is set at liberty from a multitude of opinions.From one word are all things, and of this one all things speak; and this is the beginning which also speaketh to us. From one… Read More “Without this word no one understands or judges rightly”
The Curiosity of Family Ownership in the United States. By Phillip Campbell.The Distributist Review. In this essay we will consider an interesting social phenomenon in the United States whereby a very large number of small businesses across a variety of sectors are owned by first generation immigrants. If you do not know what I mean,… Read More The Blessings of Legal Immigration. Aspiring to Ownership.
I awakened this morning unexpectedly thinking of a painful absence, the absence of the sounds of Church bells, which, when we were young, summoned us to to prayer and Mass. Not that we always appreciated this when young to be sure. But it was always there. It was just there, like the rising and setting… Read More The Absence of the Bells
Young supposedly privileged women are being taught in school to retool their own desires. They are told they need to be instructed by “experts” on how to be socialized, whereas most often young men learn to socialize themselves, on route to innovating and building the world. Retooled privileged Women seem to aspire to and do best… Read More The Corporatization of Women
“He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds.” – Psalm 147:3 “Heal me, LORD, and I will be healed; save me and I will be saved, for you are the one I praise.” – Jeremiah 17:14 A most beautiful offering for the sick of body, soul or mind. Robert Reed today is an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of… Read More Rosary for the Sick. Sorrowful Mysteries.
Konstantin Krisin is Author of ‘An Immigrant’s Love Letter to the West’. In this conversation, Konstantin discusses topics such as, how wokeness has lost true meaning, the dangers of a victim mindset, the real reason men are struggling, and the ongoing war in Ukraine. Konstantin Kisin is a Russian-British satirist and co-host of the podcast… Read More “A Kernel of Truth to Tell Gigantic Lies”
How Israel and Palestine Became Enemies According to Scripture *|* What’s next for Syria’s Christians After Assad’s Fall? (Opinion) “The complex and tumultuous history behind one of the world’s most enduring conflicts… How some Protestant-Evangelical [and some Catholics] see the roots of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, exploring the key events, ideologies, and interests that have driven… Read More All Eyes on the Israel-Palestine Conflict
“For if God did not spare the natural branches, neither will he spare you.”— Romans 11 Historian Tom Holland writes, “Not even the gift of the Promised Land had been able to keep Israel from idolatry. ‘They chose new gods.’ In book after book the same cycle was repeated: apostasy, punishment, repentance. Jews, reading of… Read More As It Was For Our Forefathers, So for Ourselves
OSV. German Cardinal Gerhard Müller, prefect of the Vatican Congregation (now Dicastery) for the Doctrine of the Faith from 2012 to 2017, spoke with OSV News briefly as he wound down a three-week visit to the United States with a quick stop at a health care ethics seminar hosted by the National Catholic Bioethics Center in… Read More Cardinal Gerhard Müller Questions Canonical Legitimacy of Synod
Updated. An apparent death cult disguised as a human rights campaign for women reigns in the land. A Harris administration will certainly broaden access to abortion, including pills. But what about Donald Trump’s moral schizophrenia in this regard? Abortion is a major issue in the upcoming Presidential election. “Health Secretary Xavier Becerra promised to “leave… Read More Harris’ Personal Search and Destroy Mission. And Trump / Vance?
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
Debunking centuries of Anti-Catholic history Joshua Charles wrote on ‘X’, “Many of the atheist “Enlightenment” attacks on Christianity are regurgitated versions of earlier protestant lies about the Catholic Church. When you realize how badly so many of us have been lied to, you can’t unsee it.” Rodney Stark writes, “It seems pertinent to point out… Read More Bearing False Witness. Rodney Stark.
by Peter Hitchens. Has the mass murder of Europe’s Jews eclipsed the other significant horrors of Hitler’s Germany? Does it matter? And is it possible to address this without being accused by the thought police of belittling the Holocaust? Let me try. These questions are raised in the greatest film released in the past year, Never… Read More Hitler the Progressive
Updates. October 10. 1st February 1979 Ayatollah Khomeini returned to Iran after fifteen years in exile, and set about establishing the country as the world’s first Islamic Republic. Ruhollah Khomeini was born in the first few years of the twentieth century, in Kohmeyn, central Iran. His father was an Islamic religious scholar, and from an… Read More 1979. Ayatollah Khomeini. Updates on Israel-Iran-Mideast War.
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