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My pal Greg Willits has a new book out

Here’s a blurb on it: HUNTINGTON, Indiana, August 30, 2017 — Medical issues, broken marriages, financial struggles, addiction and general dissatisfaction all plague our society with anxiety and fear. In fact, studies show 33% of people in the United States feel they are living with extreme stress with 48% feeling their stress has increased over […]

Jacob Rees-Mogg is one the gutsiest people in Britain

Any dolt can go on the Beeb and commit blasphemy like Richard Dawkins.  It takes absolutely no courage at all to spit on Christians and especially Catholics among the Chattering Classes on the Sceptered (or for that matter, Emerald) Isle. Here’s what takes real stones: and, on a related (and emphatically NSFW) note, here is […]

Cdl. Dolan: Bannon’s comments on immigration…

are “insulting” and “ridiculous”: Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York said claims by a former senior adviser to President Trump that Catholic bishops advocate for immigrants for economic benefit and to fill pews are “preposterous and rather insulting.” Speaking to SiriusXM’s The Catholic Channel on Thursday, the cardinal dismissed the comments made to CBS News by Breitbart editor Stephen […]

Prayers for all in Irma’s Path

Please pray especially for reader James Therry and his wife Marina, who are in a building right on Miami Beach. Also, please pray for Brandon Vogt and his family, in Orlando. Thank you!

Anti-Catholics Left and Right

In this corner, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, bringing her astonishing mind reading powers to bear on Amy Coney Barrett, Trump’s nominee to the Seventh Circuit: The Daily Caller has useful background. Feinstein’s comment doesn’t come out of the blue. Amy Coney Barrett, Trump’s nominee to the Seventh Circuit, co-wrote a law review article 20 years ago arguing […]

Sam Rocha and I discuss DACA…

…and some of the weirder anti-Catholic history of the US. Did you know that the original “wetbacks” were Irish? The term only got transferred to Sam’s Mexican ancestors later. But the term was always about Catholics in either case. Also, did you know that in the 20s authorities rounded up and deported American citizens for […]

Lincoln and the Healthy Fear of Hell

The election of 1864 quickly became a referendum on the Civil War itself and no small part of the argument of the Peace Party was that the fog of war had transformed the Northern effort from a battle to save the Union to a battle to free the slaves.  Understand: this was regarded as an […]

Prayer Request

A reader writes: I wanted to ask if you could ask for prayers for me and my family. I was recently fired from my job after facing a situation of bullying and harassment. I am in the process of suing my employer and supervisor and can only hope this behavior is exposed. Lots of people […]

How Not to Argue for the Prolife Position

Matt Walsh sez, “Please don’t complain about deporting children if you support murdering them.” It could have been a piece demonstrating the hypocrisy of the Left, but with an unerring instinct for wrongness that is a golden thread through so much of his work, Walsh instead writes a piece demonstrating the hypocrisy of the anti-abortion-but-not-prolife Christian […]