BIG BEAR LAKE, Calif. (AP) – A police officer and a pair of soon-to-be newlyweds were dead. Another officer, riddled with bullets, was in intensive care. Two more police were shot at but got away, one of them grazed by … Continue reading
BIG BEAR LAKE, Calif. (AP) – A police officer and a pair of soon-to-be newlyweds were dead. Another officer, riddled with bullets, was in intensive care. Two more police were shot at but got away, one of them grazed by … Continue reading
Breibart’s Kerry Picket reviews a new book exposing the myth of overpopulation. Despite doom and gloom predictions that never came to pass, overpopulation alarmists continue to make their case that society must restrict the procreation of human beings. In 1968, … Continue reading
Dear Boy Scouts of America, This is a brief message requesting that you maintain the present policy of not admitting homosexuals into Scout membership. If you reverse this policy, you will… reduce the Scout’s pledge [s/b “Scout Oath”] to utter … Continue reading
With the possibility that the BSA will cave to intense pressure, including financial terrorism in the form of attacks upon its corporate sponsors, to overturn their longstanding prohibition of homosexual boys and scout masters, some people, at least, will wonder … Continue reading
In Sullied by Tarantino, “The Eye-Witness” roasts one of the day’s cinematographic sacred cows. Excerpt: No person alive today with a vestige of culture or Christianity, or simple common sense for that matter, would waste a moment’s thought on dung-flinger … Continue reading
One sometimes wonders how far-reaching St. Paul’s comment to the Ephesians was intended to be, to wit: “But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not so much as be named among you, as becometh saints” (Eph. 5:3). Evidently, … Continue reading
Rereading the excellent post on Rorate Caeli, “Religious Liberty or Liberty for Christians?,” led me to some broader considerations on the subject of religious liberty. Roberto de Mattei, the author of the piece, expresses what is no doubt a controversial, … Continue reading
The New York Times has published an Op-Ed piece by Patrick J. McCloskey, a project director at the Center for Catholic School Effectiveness at Loyola University Chicago, and Joseph Claude Harris, a financial analyst. Citing statistics of school closures and … Continue reading
His birth in time transpired thus At Beth’lem’s midnight manger Where Joseph’s toil made all things well, Kept maiden spouse from danger. He forth from blessed womb did come As light through crystal streaming, Sans blight on Virgin’s radiance, True … Continue reading
I was doing some digging in our archives today, and came upon a letter of Brother Francis’ from 2005. Here is an excerpt from it on growing old: Our Lord sanctified all our life, all our states, all our emotions, … Continue reading
Phaeton his father’s fiery chariot could not guide, But reckless, hapless, frenzied, destructive, set earth aflame. He, light from light and living Fire from His Father leaping, Brightens minds, kindles wills, and glorifies God’s holy Name.
The Book of Acts of the Apostles contains many great speeches or sermons, numbering from seventeen to thirty-something, depending on your chosen method of reckoning. The Epistle for today’s Mass is taken, in part, from Saint Stephen’s speech to the … Continue reading
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