After an event like WACO it appears Ms. Clinton begs for endless punishment. She can’t wipe the blood off of her hands. It was Attorney General Janet Reno who took the political fall (1) —for the Clintons. “The incident began when the ATF attempted to raid the church with 75 armed agents, two cattle trailers… Read More Report: Hillary Clinton Might Run if Biden Resigns
… and just how close he came to dying. A former physician to Donald Trump revealed it’s an ‘absolute miracle he wasn’t killed’ after examining his ear post-assassination attempt. Ronny L Jackson, 57, met Trump, 78, in Bedminster, New Jersey following his near-death experience to ‘personally check on him.’ ‘I am extremely thankful his life was spared,’ Jackson wrote… Read More Trump’s doctor reveals new details about ex-president’s bullet wound
I hope not. But then add “Catholics” like Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi, and Fr. James Martin into the mix roaring against prolife Catholics and then public confusion easily reaches critical mass (no pun intended). In this episode, Trent Horn shows how Protestantism’s response to legal abortion reveals it’s underlying authority problem. Trent Horn earned three… Read More Could Abortion Again Be Viewed As A ‘Fundamentalist’ Catholic Issue Under Donald Trump?
Has Vance betrayed his his Pro-Life Principles? I certainly don’t want to rain on anyone’s parade, but obviously this is no small matter for Catholics. One cannot play Pontius Pilate to the crowds and hedge ones bets when it comes to the unborn, not if one wishes to have clean hands. J.D. Vance needs to… Read More J.D. Vance, the RNC, and the Abortion Pill
“The New York Post cited a source close to Owens who claimed the clip circulating was misleading and that Owens did not deny Mengele’s experiments but condemned medical experiments in general. Owens herself responded on social media, posting a longer clip of her podcast and criticizing Zionists for trying to ban the episode. Owens made the remarks on her… Read More Jerusalem Post Report: Owens minimizes Nazi medical experiments
And the philosophy of science. The Philosophy of Science challenges a fundamental facet of the modern outlook: that science as such can answer ultimate questions about ourselves, the universe, and God. Disdaining mere discussion or mordant criticism of purely scientific conclusions, Sheen opens science to a realm of thought commonly diminished at best and denigrated… Read More Marx and Hegel: The Philosophy of Communism
Updated. Freddy Gray is joined by writer Roger Kimball to discuss the attempted assassination of Former President Donald Trump. With the dust beginning to settle from the attempted assassination of Donald Trump, they look at how this could have happened, and what’s gone wrong. They also take a look at how important Donald Trump’s Vice… Read More Roger Kimball on Gross Negligence and Diversity Hires
“While the Catholic Church clearly differs from the popular culture on the issue of sexuality and sexual identity, at the same time the moral teaching of the Church is steadfast in promoting and protecting the dignity of every person as a child of God. We can respectfully disagree with someone when their opinions differ from… Read More Clear Difference on Moral Issues…
“For the average person, all problems date to World War II; for the more informed, to World War I; for the genuine historian, to the French Revolution.” —Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn
Loneliness in the West. “Once we bowled in leagues, usually after work — but no longer. This seemingly small phenomenon symbolizes a significant social change that Robert Putnam has identified in this brilliant volume, Bowling Alone, which The Economist hailed as “a prodigious achievement.” Drawing on vast new data that reveal Americans’ changing behavior, Putnam shows how we have… Read More Bowling Alone
Updated.: ‘Lock the S.O.B.s Up,’ he said or indicated many times’: Joe Biden and the Era of Mass Incarceration. / NYT June 2019: “The truth is,” Mr. Biden had boasted … in a speech on the Senate floor, “every major crime bill since 1976 that’s come out of this Congress, every minor crime bill, has… Read More Glenn Greenwald: Is Joe Biden a “Good and Decent Man”?
Thomas Hobbs writes. “In the introductory voice-over to Woody Allen’s film You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger (2010), the narrator quotes Macbeth’s lines: “Life is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.” In an interview with Commonweal just after the release of the film Whatever Works (2009) and… Read More Nihilism and Guilt American Style Revisited
“To be an Olympian is to be entangled in a complex dialectic involving elitism and egalitarianism. The foundational elitism of the Olympian lies in self ascribed rationality, generally picked up on an academic campus. Egalitarianism involves a formal adherence to democracy as a rejection of all forms of traditional authority, but with no commitment to… Read More “Christophobia” and the West
First, the Problem. The famous Thomist philosopher Etienne Gilson writes, surely accurately, in his Christian Philosophy of St. Thomas Aquinas, “… at the very place where the Summa of Alexander and the Commentary of St. Bonaventure undertake to show that the existence of God is evident, St. Thomas devotes an article to proving that it… Read More Gilson, Saint Thomas and The Self-Attesting God
Larry Chapp: Traditionis Custodes’ 3 Years On: Pope Francis’ Latin Mass ‘Motu Proprio’ Has Generated Division, Not Unity Three years after the promulgation of the motu proprio Traditionis Custodes, imposing severe restrictions on the celebration of the Mass in Latin, controversy over the use of the old Latin Mass is as strong as ever. Therefore, if Pope… Read More Traditionis Custodes’ 3 Years On
New York Times 7/7/24: Even as vote counting was still underway across France on Sunday night, one thing was clear: The left-wing coalition called the New Popular Front did much better than expected and helped deny the far right a victory. Projections show the coalition coming out in front and gaining dozens of seats —… Read More Communists, Socialists, Greens, far-left Parties surge in France
Brad S. Gregory is Dorothy G. Griffin Professor of Early Modern European History at the University of Notre Dame, a world-class historian, and award-winning author of Salvation at Stake: Christian Martyrdom in Early Modern Europe and The Unintended Reformation: How a Religious Revolution Secularized Society. He received his Ph.D. from Princeton University and was a Junior Fellow in the Harvard… Read More The Reformation: Historical Conditions, Unintended Consequences
The Pillar. “Prominent U.K. figures in the arts, business, journalism, and politics have appealed to the Vatican not to impose new restrictions on the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite, also known as the Traditional Latin Mass. In a letter to the Times of London, published July 3, more than 40 signatories, Catholic and non-Catholic … Read More UK cultural grandees urge Vatican to keep TLM in new ‘Agatha Christie’ letter
Jeffrey Dahmer murdered 17 men between the late ‘70s and early ‘90s, killing them in the most horrendous ways. His killing spree involved rape, dismemberment, necrophilia, and cannibalism. Few crimes in modern history are seen as disgusting and evil as Dahmers’. Police discovered mutilated bodies, refrigerated skulls, a shrine and a barrel with headless torsos,… Read More Jeffrey Dahmer’s Confession
SH Note: Never-ending media and book seller hatred for JFK is just what the warmongering Deep State wants. Media is influential after all. The objective has always been to murder even the memory of this President who so opposed that same Deep State and its dangerous amoral ways. See also, What Changed on November 22, 1963… Read More The Posthumous Assassination of JFK
“Countless people…will hate the New World Order…and will die protesting against it…we have to bear in mind the distress of a generation or so of malcontents.” — H. G. Wells from his book, “The New World Order.” And every Christian on this, their, Internet is potentially writing his or her own indictment for the sake… Read More CNBC: A New World Order is Emerging
On overcoming. St. Augustine teaches, “When the unlawful pleasure of concupiscence tempts you, fight, resist, do not consent; and the saying is fulfilled, Go not after thy desires.” Still further, he says elsewhere that of two persons who have the same temptation to impurity, it sometimes happens that one consents to it and the other… Read More Predominant Sin of Our Times
Updated 2x. “Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò on Friday said he will not participate in a Vatican summons to face charges of schism, reiterating his claims that Pope Francis is not the legitimate pope of the Catholic Church. The archbishop had previously revealed he received an email from the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith… Read More Declared Excommunicated. Vigano Refused Vatican Summons.
By AFP – Agence France PresseJune 28, 2024 Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday said he was drawing up a “comprehensive plan” for how Kyiv believes the war with Russia should end. There are no public talks ongoing between Ukraine and Russia and based on public statements by Zelensky and Russian President Vladimir Putin, the… Read More Zelensky Says Preparing ‘Plan’ To End War With Russia
“Pro-Hamas and Hezbollah extremists violently attacked American Jews in Los Angeles and the politicians ordered the police to do nothing to defend them.” — Mark Dubowitz By JNS STAFFJune 24, 2024, 1:46 pm. Los Angeles City Hall. (JNS) Early Sunday morning, The Los Angeles Times dubbed Karen Bass “mayor of the city of the eternal future”… Read More Los Angeles mayor, Biden DOJ failed to protect Jews amid ‘pogrom’ in LA
And soon everyone in the medical professions —and way beyond— will be required to sign on to the ideology which in truth takes direct aim at the heart of Creation, the family, law, education and human identity itself. Christine Niles reports, “Dr. John Money: pedophile founder of gender ideology. Dr. John Money coined the phrases… Read More Our Medical Schools Are Being Transformed
A discussion between Robert Moynihan, editor of Inside the Vatican magazine, and Fr. C. Murr on the reportedly imminent excommunication of Carlo Maria Viganò who served as Apostolic Nuncio to the United States 2011 to 2016. Archbishop Vigano previously served as secretary-general of the Governorate of Vatican City State from 2009 to 2011. Vatican officials have said that if such… Read More Archbishop Vigano’s Fate
Poland’s role in NATO is doubtless a tactical necessity from their point of view. But can it ever be a heartfelt alliance of trust after WWII? SH. 1997. The Betrayal of Poland 1939-1945August 29, 1997. Make America Think Again! by Patrick J. Buchanan – August 29, 1997 With Poland’s membership in NATO at issue, a… Read More Poland’s 6 Million
Let a good and just Evangelical preacher tell us more truth in a half hour than a Democrat on MSNBC will tell us in four whole years. Vince Everett Ellison was born on a cotton plantation in Haywood County, Tennessee. His parents at that time were sharecroppers. Through hard work and a belief in Jesus… Read More Social Justice? Really?
Du Bois: “Joseph Stalin was a great man; few other men of the 20th century approach his stature. He was simple, calm and courageous. He seldom lost his poise; pondered his problems slowly, made his decisions clearly and firmly; never yielded to ostentation nor coyly refrained from holding his rightful place with dignity. He was… Read More W.E.B. Du Bois and Khrushchev on Stalin
“This man Joe has been “president” for 3 and a half years and he needs a week to practice standing and a week to learn how to talk about what he’s done to America? If you actually have been president and running the country…. and you actually believed in what you’ve done… would you need… Read More Can Joe Biden Stand To Be President?
“He regards the liturgy as reactionary and effeminate” Damian Thompson. A month ago, 18,000 young people walked on pilgrimage from Paris to Chartres Cathedral in order to demonstrate their love of the Traditional Latin Mass — an intricate and solemn ceremony which, to the horror of Pope Francis, is attracting an unlikely following among Generation Z Catholics. Inside the… Read More Will Pope Francis kill the Latin Mass?
Edward Feser writes, “Fathers have the authority to teach and discipline their children, but this authority is not absolute. They may not teach their children to do evil, and they may not discipline them with unjust harshness. Everyone knows this, though everyone also knows that there are fathers who do in fact abuse their children or teach… Read More The Church permits criticism of popes under certain circumstances
St. Paul. Phillipians 1: “I want you to know, brethren, that what has happened to me has really served to advance the gospel, 13 so that it has become known throughout the whole praetorian guard and to all the rest that my imprisonment is for Christ; 14 and most of the brethren have been made confident in the Lord… Read More Prison Amidst Rivalry and Good Will
Romans 8: 18 I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed to us. 19 For the creation waits with eager longing for the revealing of the sons of God; 20 for the creation was subjected to futility, not of its own will but by the will of… Read More Holding On, Pressing On
Updated. “The popular understanding of The Crusades in the West is that they involved barbaric, violent Christians invading the peaceful and enlightened Islamic world. Films like Kingdom of Heaven and Mankind: The Story of Us reinforce this narrative. But the truth is the reality of the Crusades is much, much different. In fact, it’s the… Read More “Why the Crusades Were Awesome, Actually”
Published June 13, 2024 at 11:49 PM EDT, HealthNews Florida The high court threw out a challenge to the FDA’s rules on the abortion drug. A recently enacted Florida law permits use of the pill up to six weeks of gestation, but the medication must be taken in front of a doctor.The U.S. Supreme Court on… Read More What does the Supreme Court’s mifepristone decision mean for Florida?
You haven’t liveduntil you’ve fallen intocoma. Between eternity and earth. It happened to meabout five weeks ago. It was otherwise an ordinary day.I went to work, came home,had dinner with my beloved. Then a few hours laterI began to feel uncomfortablystrange — sick, pins and needlesascended my entire body. I told my wife I must… Read More Coma
Traditionally called St. Patrick’s Breastplate. I arise today Through a mighty strength, the invocation of the Trinity,Through belief in the Threeness,Through confession of the Onenessof the Creator of creation. I arise todayThrough the strength of Christ’s birth with His baptism,Through the strength of His crucifixion with His burial,Through the strength of His resurrection with His ascension,Through… Read More Courage and Strength Through the Sacred Heart of Jesus
By John C. Cort | New Oxford Review. January-February 1987. I’ve been thinking a lot about Karl Marx lately. Nearly two billion members of the human race liver under Marxist regimes, while leaders of the major opposition to oppressive regimes in Africa and Latin America usually look to Marx — and sometimes to a queer composite… Read More Neither Karl Marx Nor Adam Smith
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