Nagasaki Was A Strike Against Japan And The Catholic Church

Victor Gaetan is senior international correspondent for the National Catholic Register 8/21. The closer we look at decisions to deploy a second atomic weapon against Japan on August 9, [1945…] the more morally audacious the tactic appears. Step outside the American explanatory cloud—we bombed military installations to force unconditional imperial surrender—defining public understanding to see:… Read More Nagasaki Was A Strike Against Japan And The Catholic Church

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Opinion. Rory Sewart & Alastair John Campbell on Riots in the UK and American Politics

Updated re Alastair Campbell and Douglas Murray. 8/13/24.  Rory Stewart, is a British academic, broadcaster, writer and former diplomat and politician. He served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Penrith and The Border between 2010 and 2019, representing the Conservative Party. Stewart served in the UK Government as Minister of State for Environment (2015-16), International Development (2015-16), Africa (2016-18) and Prisons (2018-19) and then as Secretary of State for International Development (2019). In 2019, Stewart stood for Leader of… Read More Opinion. Rory Sewart & Alastair John Campbell on Riots in the UK and American Politics

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Archbishop Sheen’s Warning of a Crisis in Christendom. 1974.

National Catholic Register. With a saintly long-ranging spiritual vision, Ven. Fulton J. Sheen saw the roots of today’s crisis firmly planted and growing in 1974, but he gave us an antidote. Joseph Pronechen July 29, 2018 “First of all, we are at the end of Christendom,” Archbishop Fulton Sheen solemnly said during a television show in… Read More Archbishop Sheen’s Warning of a Crisis in Christendom. 1974.

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Red Diaper Baby?

It is alleged. Democrats are stuck with Kamala Harris as their nominee against Donald Trump and are working hard to whitewash her record. Google Search Engine put on notice. Kamala Harris has *extensive* communist ties. Author and Filmmaker Trevor Loudon writes,  “I have conducted painstaking research into Kamala Harris, the presumed Democratic presidential nominee. My… Read More Red Diaper Baby?

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Trent Horn on the Emptiness of Political Christianity

Trent takes on the empty absurdities on the other end of the ideological spectrum in so-called “political Christianity.” One good example of “junk” liberal Christianity can be found in a 2019 New York Times interview with Serene Jones, a Protestant minister and president of Union Theological Seminary. Here are a few of her “deepities”: “[The] empty tomb… Read More Trent Horn on the Emptiness of Political Christianity

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Cardinal Gerhard Mueller on  Misunderstandings of Liturgical Substance and Unity

In this interesting interview, despite the heading given by Maike Hickson, Cardinal Gerhard Mueller says he believes Pope Benedict XVI understood liturgical development in the context of sacred Tradition correctly, without prejudice to previous expressions of the same sacred Sacrifice. Diversity of rites have always existed side by side in the Church. Müller accepts diversity… Read More Cardinal Gerhard Mueller on  Misunderstandings of Liturgical Substance and Unity

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Harmony and Differences on Predestination in Catholic Theology

Reginald Garrigou Lagrange and St. Alphonsus Ligouri. The New Oxford Review has been interested in this important subject recently and so I thought the following might assist those likewise interested and / or baffled by it all. See also other essays by following links regarding predestination, grace, free will, etc at this website. 1. Catholic… Read More Harmony and Differences on Predestination in Catholic Theology

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Reading ‘Lord Of The Rings’ And ‘1984’ Could Lead To…

Right-Wing Extremism, Gov’t Report Warns… Feb. 2023. Author Douglas Murray published a scathing review of the British government’s counter-terrorism Prevent program, which has apparently reported that authors like George Orwell, J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis can radicalize readers. In his column, Murray described how Britain’s Prevent program was founded to support counter-terrorism efforts, but has gradually… Read More Reading ‘Lord Of The Rings’ And ‘1984’ Could Lead To…

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Gareth Jones, Malcom Muggeridge, and the Holodomor

Gareth Richard Vaughan Jones (13 August 1905 – 12 August 1935) was a Welsh journalist who in March 1933 first reported in the Western world, without equivocation and under his own name, the existence of the Soviet famine of 1930–1933, including the Holodomor. In mid-October 1932 (less than a month after Malcolm Muggeridge had arrived in Moscow on the… Read More Gareth Jones, Malcom Muggeridge, and the Holodomor

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Dave McCormick and Tulsi Gabbard on Kamala Harris Today

Updated. More Military Industrial Complex and The National Security State. They’ll run the show. Former Democrat Congresswoman and 2020 presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard  is a combat veteran with three deployments to the Middle East and Africa.  Currently, Gabbard serves as a Lieutenant Colonel in the U.S. Army Reserves working as a Civil Affairs Officer.  Gabbard… Read More Dave McCormick and Tulsi Gabbard on Kamala Harris Today

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Kamala Harris Would Impose Abortions Up to Birth on All 50 States

“Kamala Harris is an abortion apologist who represents the extreme pro-abortion position of the Democratic Party. “Kamala Harris has acted as the unofficial Abortion Czar of the Biden-Harris Administration,” Tobias told LifeNews.com, “She has toured the country pushing unlimited abortion and criticizing protective state laws that support women and their preborn children.” As a presidential… Read More Kamala Harris Would Impose Abortions Up to Birth on All 50 States

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Trump’s doctor reveals new details about ex-president’s bullet wound

… 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

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Could Abortion Again Be Viewed As A ‘Fundamentalist’ Catholic Issue Under Donald Trump?

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?

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Jerusalem Post Report: Owens minimizes Nazi medical experiments

“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

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Marx and Hegel: The Philosophy of Communism

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

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Bowling Alone

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

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