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What has the “Prolife” MAGA Cult achieved?

C.S. Lewis makes a terrifying and strangely ironic observation in his essay “The World’s Last Night” that applies profoundly to the evil heretical fertility cult of Mars that now has come to make unjust war the latest in the train of evils they use the unborn as human shields to defend: I can imagine no […]

Just to be clear, our new war does not meet a single criterion of Just War doctrine

To review, the early Church was a pacifist Church.  Jesus told Peter to put up his sword and he got the message so well that his only counsel to a viciously persecuted Church under Nero–the Emperor who would crucify him–was “Be sure you die well”.  Not a word about “standing your ground” or “hitting them […]

Since it’s Epiphany…

Here’s a little excerpt from Mary, Mother of the Son, addressing the peculiar notion that all contact between the Catholic faith and paganism can only mean that Catholic faith is “corrupted”: We Three Kings of Orient Are /Astrologers Who Traverse Afar As a young Evangelical, one of the things I routinely heard from critics of Christianity […]

Tales of the Unexplained!!!!

Somebody sent me this a while back and I thought I would pass it on mostly because (even though I never heard about it till just now) this apparently happened right over my house:

On this Friday in Christmas…

it is only fitting that God’s beloved poor be made sharers in the great feast of the Incarnation. I am huge fan of the work being done by Fausta Nalubega and her husband Ross Earl Hoffman for the beautiful community supported by Mercy for Life. From beautiful little James, who needed antibiotics… to these good […]

Because it is still Christmas…

…and I am still therefore giving myself up to revelry and jollification till Twelfth Night, I hereby present you with an interesting and educational article on the history of Christmas music from the medieval period to Sufjan Stevens.  Here’s a taste, but do click the link and read (and listen to) the rest: Whether it’s […]

New Year’s Chimes

What is the song the stars sing? (And a million songs are as song of one) This is the song the stars sing: (Sweeter song’s none) One to set, and many to sing, (And a million songs are as song of one) One to stand, and many to cling, The many things, and the one […]

Year’s End

Now winter downs the dying of the year, And night is all a settlement of snow; From the soft street the rooms of houses show A gathered light, a shapen atmosphere, Like frozen-over lakes whose ice is thin And still allows some stirring down within. I’ve known the wind by water banks to shake The […]

The Feast of the Holy Family…

…was yesterday: “Waiting for the Wise Men” by Lee Kaercher pic.twitter.com/FHgfYJMh5W — Ron Joseph (@questar1959_ron) January 2, 2019 The biggest assault on Catholics taking place on US soil is not the suffering of white conservative Catholics ginned up into their yearly round of butthurt by liars shrieking about the “War on Christmas”. It is the […]

Nothing Says “Christmas” like “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” in 9th Century Gregorian Chant

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