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
Advent and Penance “Two men went up into the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, ‘God, I thank thee that I am not like other men, extortioners, unjust,adulterers, or even like this tax collector.I fast twice a week, I give tithes of… Read More “Extortioners, adulterers, tax collectors…”
Combining reasonable truths with unreasonable anti-Christian animus, Lawrence Wilkerson, is a retired Army colonel and former chief of staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell. With his extensive insights and expertise into the Middle East and American foreign policy, Wilkerson provides a valuable understanding into what a Trump presidency Since the end of his military… Read More The Left’s Irrational Fear of “Christian-Catholic Fascism”
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
“Not only Cardinal Coccopalmerio’s proposal for a “permanent round table” of confrontation between the Church and Masonic lodges: at the meeting in Milan, Bishop Staglianò shatters the doctrinal approach and clears the way for openness in the name of Mercy.” Milan. “Dialogue, and even collaboration, between the Church and Freemasonry must go ahead, perhaps with… Read More Enter Freemasonry.
Israel, Gaza and Lebanon, proportionality and preemptive strikes. Fr. Charles McCarthy, a Melkite Catholic priest in Massachusetts, argues that it might be a “mortal sin” to vote for either Donald Trump or Kamala Harris in this 2024 Presidential election, since each, he says, are in various ways complicit in “grave evil” by supporting and enabling… Read More A Melkite Catholic Priest Bound to Infuriate Many.
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”
Technology, being neutral in itself, can be used for good or evil. But with the development of the Atomic Bomb near the end of WWII and the proliferation and spread of all subsequent weapons of mass destruction, human kind entered a new phase of evil.+ Today additional technological advances, including total surveillance grids, appear more than… Read More The Dark Technological Grid Blanketing the Heavens and the Earth
+ Kissinger’s final warning and the Antichristic: “Prepare now for ‘superhuman’ people to control Earth…Kissinger’s co-authors, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt and longtime Microsoft senior executive Craig Mundie’s bracing message, warning that AI tools have already started outpacing human capabilities so people might need to consider biologically engineering themselves to ensure they are not rendered… Read More Mad Elon Wants to “Wire Your Evolving Brain to the Internet”
And ‘Being Beethoven‘ a BBC documentary chronicling his genius, tragedies and glory. Also, Damian Thompson asks why didn’t Beethoven go to Mass? Too, How did Beethoven feel about Napoleon? And Missa Solemnis. Beethoven and the Catholic Church .By Michael De Sapio.Crisis Magazine. Ludwig van Beethoven, Johann Sebastian Bach, and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart form the great trinity… Read More Beethoven and the Catholic Church
… giving the once most beautiful state over to the Cartels. Imagine sleeping up in your bedroom when suddenly you hear noise downstairs. Looking out your window you see your home is being emptied of the things you worked so hard for. Nobody in the media ever mentions it, but Kamala Harris helped turn the… Read More How Kamala Harris turned Southern California into a Nightmare
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.
Again and again British politicians, commentators and celebrities intone that ‘The War on Drugs has failed’. They then say that this is an argument for abandoning all attempts to reduce drug use through the criminal law. Peter Hitchens shows that in Britain there has been no serious ‘war on drugs’ since 1971, when a Tory… Read More Peter Hitchens: The War We Never Fought
Described as a “Walking Book of Knowledge” by William F. Buckley Jr., Kuehnelt-Leddihn had an encyclopedic knowledge of humanities and was a polyglot, able to speak eight languages and read seventeen others. His early books The Menace of the Herd (1943) and Liberty or Equality (1952) were influential within the American conservative movement. An associate… Read More Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn
One account I read was certainly correct to this extent: “When [the vile] “comedian” Tony Hinchcliffe took the stage at Madison Square Garden in New York City on Sunday for a rally in support of Donald Trump‘s presidential campaign, he didn’t just cross a line — he fully erased it… What he called “humor” was a continuous… Read More Trump’s “Funny” Man?
Pro-choice means what, exactly? A new Charlotte Lozier report finds that more than 95% of U.S. abortions are elective, while less than 5% are due to health risks, rape, or incest, shedding light on the reality of abortion procedures across the country. Analysis Carole Novielli “The media has been spewing out stories right and left… Read More Latest US abortion figures show 95% are procured for ‘elective’ reasons
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
By Arjun Badola, January 5, 2020. The novel, Crime and punishment, is written by the Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky who shows us the plight of an ordinary person and the effect on his psyche after he commits a murder. The protagonist in the novel, Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov, is a former student and is currently living… Read More Raskolnikov, Napoleon & Übermensch
George Eldon Ladd. The uniqueness and the scandal of the Christian religion rest in the mediation of revelation through historical events. The Hebrew-Christian faith stands apart from the religions of its environment because it is a historical faith whereas they were religions rooted in mythology or the cycle of nature. The God of Israel was… Read More The Saving Acts of God
Edward Pentin of the National Catholic Register reports, “At the IX Pax Liturgica Meeting in Rome today, Cardinal Gerhard Müller warned against bishops betraying their divine mission by relativising doctrine and failing to uphold the orthodox faith. “We must not give in to the following suggestion: If you want to reach people today and be… Read More Cardinal Gerhard Müller warns against bishops betraying their divine mission
The lights must never go out, The music must always play, Lest we should see where we are— Lost in a haunted wood; Children afraid of the dark Who have never been happy or good. — George Orwell
Rogue Prosecutors Documentary: How Radical Soros Lawyers Are Destroying America’s Communities explains the origins, beliefs, playbook, funding, and real-life consequences of the “progressive prosecutor” movement—a group of newly elected prosecutors, their allies, and backers that refuse to prosecute crimes, hold criminals accountable, and seek justice for victims. Told through true crime stories from eight different cities,… Read More Rogue Soros Prosecutors Hurting Minorities & All
“… don’t think that I am a fool to talk like this. But even if you do, listen to me, as you would to a foolish person, while I also boast a little. I have been put in prison more often, been whipped times without number, and faced death again and again. 24 Five different times the… Read More St. Paul’s Cross
“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”
The value of sufferings in Christ By Fr. Gabriel of St. Mary Magdalen, O.C.D. O Jesus Crucified, teach me the science of the Cross. 1. The Passion of Jesus teaches us in a concrete way that in the Christian life we must be able to accept suffering for the love of God. This is a… Read More Personal knowledge of the Cross
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
Snyder seems to think that in Donald Trump another furher may be emerging. He had no such concerns about Kamala Harris or Joe Biden. Democracy against all odds, lawfare and bullets gave us Donald Trump. Ergo, Democracy is alive and well in America. I didn’t vote for Donald Trump (or Harris!). But Snyder should be… Read More Timothy Snyder’s Distrust of Democracy
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?
“Seeing nuclear proliferation as a major challenge to American power, John F. Kennedy firmly believed that the United States should use its influence to prevent Israel from going nuclear.” “During 1963, President John F. Kennedy was preoccupied with issues such as Vietnam, the nuclear test ban negotiations, civil rights protests, and Cuba. It is less… Read More Fearing Nuclear Proliferation JFK Sought to prevent Israel from going nuclear
Alleging illegal activity “from murder to extortion”. “In a significant development, India has downgraded its diplomatic ties with Canada. This decision comes in response to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s allegations against India, which the Indian government has termed as baseless. Trudeau accused India of supporting criminal activities on Canadian soil, a claim that India… Read More Trudeau Downgrades Diplomatic Ties With India
Josef Pieper, the renowned Thomist, in his 1953 study, The Silence of St. Thomas (St. Augustine’s Press, South Bend, Indiana) reminds theologians and students of St. Thomas Aquinas that while Pope Pius XI in his 1923 Encyclical Studiorum Ducem insisted that the Angelic Doctor is to be esteemed by all Schools of Theology, he also reminded all… Read More St. Thomas Aquinas and the “Life-blood of Catholic Theology”
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.
*|* What’s next for Syria’s Christians After Assad’s Fall? (Opinion) Previous updates. MSN.com For much of the last year, as Hezbollah and Israel traded blows in an escalating tit-for-tat, the predominantly Christian village of Ain Ebel remained mostly out of the crossfire: Hezbollah cadres didn’t use the village as staging ground for attacks, and Israeli warplanes and… Read More Christian villages were neutral in the Israel-Hezbollah conflict. That didn’t save them.
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
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