“Humans are a plague on the Earth that need to be controlled by limiting population growth, according to Sir David Attenborough.” So reports The Telegraph. The most intelligent thing Attenborough said comes toward the end: “I’m not sure there’s any … Continue reading
Ethics be damned. The Mail Online informs us that “Professor George Church of Harvard Medical School believes he can reconstruct Neanderthal DNA. His ambitious plan requires a human volunteer willing to allow the DNA to be put into stem cells, … 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
These bred bull dogs are demonic. No different than rattle snakes. They ought to be rounded up and destroyed. They look like little imps. And, yes, they can attack their masters without provocation. Did I say I hate these dogs? … Continue reading
A friend writes: No wonder the confessionals are mostly empty in our churches. People “confess” to Oprah now. While they are “wrapping” (her spelling) with the Queen of TV Talk. And speaking of wrapping, a rapper named Shyne is joining … Continue reading
The Chesterton Review, founded in 1974, is the quarterly journal of the G.K. Chesterton Institute for Faith & Culture and has been widely praised for both its scholarship and the quality of its writing. It was founded to promote an … 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
Nat Hentoff penned a hard-hitting op-ed piece on the patent hypocrisy of President Obama’s tears for the Sandy Hook victims. Pro-lifers will see the point right away, since the same man who shed those tears is the most viciously pro-abortion … 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
Trent Beattie of National Catholic Register has an interesting article on Notre Dame football. Although the “Catholicity” of the college has been undermined by scandalously compromising presidents, such as Father Theodore Hesburgh (member of Council on Foreign Relations, past president of … Continue reading
(RebuildingChristendom.com) If you are a craftsman/tradesman who makes/sells a product, offers a service, or can train people to do these things, consider forming a guild. There are books available on this topic; please read them. IHS Press currently offers a … 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
Thanks to the guiding wisdom of my teacher, Brother Francis, I have a strong disdain for modern biblical criticism. Initiated by eighteenth century Protestant rationalists, such as Eichorn and Schleiermacher, this school of skeptics for two centuries now have been … 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.
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