Ilana Mercer paints a starkly unflattering portrait of Honest Abe in Lincoln lied, people died. Regular readers of this site may be familiar with Gary Potter’s Catholicism and the Old South, which takes a similarly negative attitude toward the much … Continue reading
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The King of Big Mountain
At the Whitefish Mountain Resort in Whitefish, Montana, there’s something unusual near the top of Big Mountain’s Chair 2. It’s a statue of Our Lord Jesus Christ, not something one would normally associate with a ski resort. The story of … Continue reading
Sojourners in the Land of Egypt
The headline reads “Egyptian Christians Worry about Radical Islamic Takeover.” The worry is a legitimate one. Instability in the Arab world, caused by revolutions against western-backed strong men, could well empower fanatical Islamists. The downfall of our US-backed Persian strong … Continue reading
Another Anti-SPLC Article
This one from The New American. Excerpt: Smells of a Smear But nowadays the SPLC has become infamous for its commando-aggressive, slick campaigns against mainstream Americans who support constitutional government, the Second Amendment, sound money, traditional marriage, and legal immigration. … Continue reading
Chaplains Predicted to Resist ‘Gay’-Ban Repeal
WorldNetDaily reports on the opposition to the repeal of DADT in the military chaplaincy. It focuses on the Evangelicals, with a brief mention of the Southern Baptists. We hope and pray that there is at least as much resistance in … Continue reading
‘I Was in Prison, and You Came to Me’
I just made the acquaintance of a man named Chris Quinn, who volunteers at the Roederer Correctional Facility in LaGrange, Kentucky. He and other Catholic laymen have an apostolate among the prisoners there. Mr. Quinn wrote to tell me how … Continue reading
Breakdown in Communication
I happened to be reading A Meditation on Modernism by Fr. Thomas Crean O.P., and realized that I’ve seen this sort of thing before — and it can be dangerous. First, read this description of how Modernists use the same … Continue reading
Canon Law and Lay Apostles
The apostolate is not something reserved to clergy and religious. It never was. Long before Vatican II — which, according to a strange mythology, first asserted the importance of the laity in propagating the Catholic message — Saint Vincent Pallotti … Continue reading
A Modest Proposal on Church Unity
His Eminence Walter Cardinal Kasper was recently awarded the Lambeth Cross, an award from the Anglican Church to honor a non-Anglican who has advanced the cause of ecumenism. In his address to the Nikean club on that occasion, His Eminence … Continue reading
Margaret Sanger, H.G. Wells, George B. Shaw: Racist Eugenicists with a Mind to Exterminate Inferiors
Michael Coren has a worthwhile article on the Catholic Online website. He quotes Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood, saying that “we do not want word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population ‘because it … Continue reading
Professor Indred Wichman and the MSU Muslim Student’s Association
A small victory of the anti-PC forces. An academic at Michigan State University makes statements critical of Islam and gets away with it when the hue and cry is raised against him. For now, anyway, one can openly criticize Islam … Continue reading
Why Women Should Wear a Veil in Church
Msgr. Pope, as always, has another informative article here on the Washington D.C. diocesan website pertaining to the age-old custom of women wearing veils or head covering in church. He cites a pastor in Sri-Lanka who wants to restore the … Continue reading
Dictator Hu Jintao Denies China Has Forced Abortion Policy
What would one expect from a Communist? The truth? “Promises are like pie-crusts–made to be broken,” said Stalin. Or, to quote from the Little Red Book of Chairman Mao, who is virtually worshiped by Chinese Reds: “Political power comes out … Continue reading
Confederate General Sterling Price, Father John Bannon Was the Greatest Soldier He Ever Met.
Donald McClarey of The American Catholic introduces another American Catholic hero, Chaplain John Bannon, from General Sterling Price’s First Missouri Confederate Brigade. “There were a great many brave men, during the Civil War, but I think it is a safe … Continue reading
Venerable Nelson Baker’s un-PC Prayer
The Servant of God, Father Nelson Baker, recently declared venerable, is a figure that will probably go down in history as one of the great American saints. In the early Church, long before the modern process of canonization, he probably … Continue reading