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”
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
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.
Even when your brain feels like mush. by Alissa Wilkinson | Jul 21, 2022 | Vox.com I doubt you need to be told you should be reading more. There’s a good chance you struggle to make time for reading, and it feels like just another obligation, like hitting your daily step goal, or drinking more water. You’re not… Read More How to fall back in love with reading
India Today. New Delhi: What began as a localised conflict between Israel and Hamas has evolved into a multi-front war, with Israel now facing challenges across West Asia. The war has drawn in key regional players, including Iran, which recently escalated tensions by launching a ballistic missile strike on Israeli targets. This has widened the… Read More Israel’s Multi-front Wars
“I pled guilty guilty to journalism”. In a first major public appearance since his release from prison in June, Julian Assange addresses the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) in a hearing to discuss his imprisonment and its impact on human rights. This comes ahead of a PACE plenary session on Wednesday where… Read More Julian Assange’ 1st Public Statement & Forum After Release From Prison
“…Can the Holy Spirit really be calling the Church to abandon structures of ecclesial governance whose evolution over time the Holy Spirit presumably inspired? How can the Holy Spirit teach us one thing about the ethics of human love and the nature of marriage for two millennia, and then “surprise” us by calling the Church… Read More German ‘Synodality’ and the World Church. George Wiegel.
”Many are the plans in a man’s heart, but it is the Lord’s purpose that prevails.” (Prov. 19:21). “Having dismissed the multitude,He went into a mountain alone to pray.”—Matthew 14:23. By St. Alphonsus Liguori,Doctor of the Church. To preserve recollection of spirit or the constant union of the soul with God, three things are necessary:… Read More Silence, Solitude and the Presence of God
“There is a very good reason for every Catholic to know the great works of literature—and that is because the great works of literature help us to know ourselves. This is the reason that we should learn the humanities—because the humanities teach us about humanity, both our own humanity and the humanity of our neighbours.… Read More Literature: What Every Catholic Should Know. Joseph Pearce.
“The simplest truth about man is that he is a very strange being; almost in the sense of being a stranger on the earth. In all sobriety, he has much more of the external appearance of one bringing alien habits from another land than of a mere growth of this one. He cannot sleep in… Read More G. K. Chesterton on Man
Updated. “On one occasion an expert in the law stood up to test Jesus. “Teacher,” he asked, “what must I do to inherit eternal life?” 26 “What is written in the Law?” he replied. “How do you read it?” 27 He answered, “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all… Read More Missionary, Self-Conversion Time
By Fr. Gabriel of St Mary Magalene, 1953 Grant, O Lord, that by Your grace I may persevere unto the end. 1. To become a saint, it is not enough to be courageous and patient and to practice the other virtues for a few days or a few months, or even for a few years.… Read More Perseverance
The Imitation of Christ, and the Contempt of All the Vanities of the World. Ch. 1. HE that followeth me, walketh not in dark-saith our Lord. Jn 8:12. These are the words of Christ, by which we are admonished, that we must imitate his life and manners, if we would be truly enlightened, and delivered… Read More The doctrine of Christ surpasses all the doctrines of the saints
Sam Kean examines the dark, restless side of the father of the atomic bomb in The Real Tragedy of Robert Oppenheimer In March 1926, four students from Cambridge University took a vacation in Corsica, an island off France. For ten days, they biked around and hiked the craggy hills and stuffed themselves with seafood in… Read More The Deranged Robert Oppenheimer
*|* What’s next for Syria’s Christians After Assad’s Fall? (Opinion) Previous. Hamas and Hezbollah. How They Were Formed and Which Nations Support the Terror Groups. Netanyahu speaks on Israel’s view of its own history. | Also Vantage with Palki Sharma 10/7/23 Hamas launched large-scale attacks into Israel. What is Hamas, the terror organisation that governs… Read More Hamas, Hezbollah and Israel
Divine Intimacy by Father Gabriel of St. Mary Magdalen, O.C.D. It Is Worth It’s Weight in Spiritual Gold. It is not ordinary. It does not allow us to evade the Cross, yet it does not leave us discouraged and without abundant spiritual comfort. On every page we are lifted up and shown the way to… Read More An Incomparable Book for Our Time. Divine Intimacy.
“In the world you will have tribulation; but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world.”—Jn.16:33. Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary.Mary as “blessed among women”. Pope John Paul II 1. The liturgy today commemorates theNativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary.This feast, very important to popular piety, leads us to admire in Mary the… Read More Praying for the Children
“A government that can censor its critics has license for every atrocity” “What most alarms me isn’t how the Democratic Party conducts its internal affairs, or runs it candidates. What alarms me is the resort to censorship and media control, and the weaponization of the federal agencies. When a U.S. President colludes with or outright… Read More RFK Jr. On Kamala Harris, Warns of “Totalitarianism”
William F. Buckley Jr. called out a major aspect of the spiritual struggle in our time, increasingly atheistic education, 1951: “I had always been taught, and experience had fortified the teachings, that an active faith in God and a rigid adherence to Christian principles are the most powerful influences toward the good life… A number of… Read More The Struggle of Our Time
NYT. / 9.8.24. “Donald Trump is stuck. He is a brutally transactional politician who represents a coalition of ideologues. His instinct is to promise the moon, and he’ll say anything to get a vote — or just to get out of a room. He also knows, however, that he has no choice but to dance… Read More New York Times Gloats Over Trump’s “Abortion Headache”
When Scripture’s creation-based, anthropocentric revelation is rejected, and an evolutionary animal continuum (from amoeba to man) is presupposed as the only reality, then human beings begin taking their cues for behavior from the animal-insect world. This rationalization has reached tragically absurd levels today as witness postmodernist writer Steven Shaviro’s longing for the sexual autonomy of… Read More From Creation and Family to the Petri Dish
Too, parents who refuse children gender change face seven years in jail in Scotland. New World Order anti-values triggering… This on top of The Telegraph report, February 2024: Parents who refuse to allow their children to change gender would face up to seven years in jail under SNP plans to ban “conversion therapy”. Proposals published… Read More 7 Years in Jail For Misgendering
John Reith, the first ever Director General of the BBC, talks to Malcolm Muggeridge about his time at the corporation. He explains the thinking behind his decision to instruct BBC broadcasters to speak in the rather artificial manner – which became known as the ‘BBC accent’ – as opposed to their own local dialects. Lord… Read More John Reith to Malcolm Muggeridge on the BBC’s Effects on the Language
Updated. Andrew Doran and Mary Eberstadt | First Things | 9.5.24 Candace Owens, a Catholic convert and former pundit at the Daily Wire, has come under fire for anti-Semitic rhetoric, including promoting the “blood libel” charge and linking Judaism to pedophilia. She is not alone among Jew-bashers with large online followings trying to claim the label of “Catholic right” these days (notorious anti-Semite Nick Fuentes and… Read More Candace Owens Doesn’t Speak for Catholics
By Norman Podhoretz. Sex, drugs, America, the middle class, and “poetry power”: reflections on a literary entanglement of 50 years’ duration. by Norman Podhoretz, 1997. “Allen Ginsberg, Master Poet of Beat Generation, Dies at 70,” proclaimed the headline on the front page of the New York Times for April 6, 1997. Reading it, I was moved more deeply… Read More My War With Allen Ginsberg
Or, dreams come true… In No Speed Limit, author and cultural analyst Steven Shaviro writes, “In his science fiction novel Pop Apocalypse, Lee Konstantinou imagines the existence of a “Creative Destruction” school of Marxist-Leninist thought. The adherents of this school “interpret Marx’s writings as literal predictions of the future, so they consider it their mission… Read More The Creative Destruction school of Marxist-Leninist thought.
Before there was Gloria Steinem or Michel Foucault, there was Dada. And it was deadly serious. Kickoff, Demolition time. “Dada thrives on contradictions. It is creative and destructive. Dada denounces the world and wishes to save it.” So says one narrator of journalist-filmmaker Mick Gold’s Europe After the Rain, a 1978 Arts Council of Great Britain documentary… Read More 1914. Europe After the Rain.
Is A Personal* God Improbable? Or is it we who are improbable? Atheism has traditionally scoffed at belief in a God who is Personal or SupraPersonal. I’ve always found their position to be a counterintuitive curiosity. One of the reasons why is that I find myself, a personal being, to exist. I am here. You… Read More I Am Therefore I Think
Quintero noted that ’51 priests have been exiled without trial, violating their rights to residency and freedom of movement.’ National Catholic Register. Two new reports are out detailing human rights violations in Nicaragua, one focusing on religious freedom and the other citing 870 attacks specifically targeting the Catholic Church. On Aug. 13, the human rights… Read More 870 Attacks Against the Catholic Church Reported in Nicaragua Since 2018
I wish all those responsible would just go back to the Church, confess, and get their sins forgiven by Christ. Then we can all do quiet penance to make the world better, begin anew, knowing that God is more desirous to forgive us all than we ourselves could ever conceive. Cf. Matthew 12:31: “And so I… Read More Iraq and Sleepless nights
Rory Stewart is everything that’s gone wrong with the Tories — Spiked online Note: because Stewart is an interesting bundle of a political person, expect more about him here highlighting both his weaknesses and even a few strengths. SH The Conservatives’ attempts to appease the ‘sensible’, ‘centrist’ types have brought the party to ruin. GARETH… Read More “Rory Stewart is a ludicrous little man”. Let’s pray he recovers
