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Duane Mandible on the Jewish Question

Guest blogger, Duane Mandible is a contributing editor to The Truth Hurts, a bi-monthly journal of politics, economics and opinion. He also contributes regularly to Freedom Monthly; Illuminations and The Sojourner. Duane is the author of Guns and Knives will Save Your Children’s Lives. He is Vice President of the Sacred Society of St Philibustre, and enjoys hunting rattlesnakes, square dancing [Read More...]

Are Traddie Catholics Anti-Semitic?

In a post yesterday I made some generalized observations about traditionalist Catholics. Never mind that I took care to say “some” and “sometimes” and “a few” and “too often” thus avoiding blaming all traditional Catholics of anti-Semitism, not caring for the poor etc. Still some commenters jumped on it and assumed I was throwing mud [Read More...]

The Pope’s Prophetic Option for the Poor

Here is my latest article for Aleteia: What is the significance of Pope Francis emphasis on poverty and the poor?

Powerful Prophetic Poetry

A prophet is a seer. He sees what others cannot or will not see in his own culture, and he therefore sees what others cannot or will not see in the future. A prophet looks deeply into the reality of the present moment and sees beneath all the facades, the subterfuge, trickery, lying and chicanery [Read More...]

Our Lady — Or Your Lady?

Some years ago I wrote a dialogue book with an old college friend from Bob Jones University. David Gustafson graduated top of our class at BJU and has gone on to get his law degree and now works as a federal judge. He and I wrote Mary-A Catholic Evangelical Debate which was published by Brazos Press. [Read More...]

Peace and Justice Catholics – Just Aging Hippies?

There seems to be an undefined group of Catholics who some call “Peace and Justice Catholics”. They are typified as aging hippies. They named their churches “Prince of Peace” in the sixties as a kind of flower power protest. These peace and justice Catholics are portrayed by conservatives as left wing, tree hugging, bra burning, [Read More...]

The Vicar Retires

Guest blogger, The Rev’d Humphrey Blytherington is Vicar of St Hilda’s, Little Snoring with All Saints, Great Snoring. He is a graduate of Plymouth University. He completed his studies for the ministry at Latimer Hall, Durham. He is married to Daphne and enjoys home brewing, model railroading and is an avid member of the Great [Read More...]

The Catholic Faith – Ever Ancient Ever Young

Two events converged for me today. One was the simplicity of celebrating a daily Mass and as I said the words I say so often, realizing that my own life is caught up in something far more stupendous and ancient than I am usually aware of. Here, in a humble church in Greenville, South Carolina [Read More...]

The Crescat and the Chupacabra

 Did our own Crescat have a paranormal visitation? Was it the Chupacabra? On Facebook she reports: I just saw this… a shadowy animal, smaller than a deer, bigger than a dog, lean and shaped like a great dane, about the size of a mastiff. It wasn’t furry, or it least it had a short coat [Read More...]

Satanism and Skinning Your Mom

OK.  Don’t read this story if you have a weak stomach. To sum it up, a Satan worshipper has been jailed for life for killing his mother, dismembering her, skinning her and dissecting her. So a kid does that to his mother? Gross! Disgusting! Horrible! Shocking! Hold on. But mothers are allowed to do that [Read More...]