She lived a life totally for Christ, while unable to feel the presence of God throughout most of her adult life. It was…
Open Thread: Senate Elections 2018
The usual Open Thread rules apply: be concise, be charitable and, above all, be amusing. It is the consensus in the polling…
President Trump’s All Saints Day Message
On All Saints’ Day, I join Christians across our Nation in honoring the men and women through the centuries whose extraordinary lives of faithfulness…
Saint of the Day Quote: Blessed Paul Navarro
For many years I have prayed for this great grace from God but always with some fear, that I would not be heard because…
Torches
He had no faintest conception till that very hour of how they would look, and even doubted their existence. But when he saw them…
Honors
Ah, Mary pierced with sorrow,Remember, reach and saveThe soul that comes to-morrowBefore the God that gave!Since each was born of woman,For each at utter…
Time to Fall Back
We’ve gone back to God’s time thank Him. The silliest thing I know of is daylight saving time. Why don’t they get up…
Saint of the Day Quote: Saint Wolfgang
Our Lord needs from us neither great deeds nor profound thoughts. Neither intelligence nor talents. He cherishes simplicity.” Saint Wolfgang
Early Morning Rain
Something for the weekend. Early Morning Rain (1964) Written and sung by Gordon Lightfoot.
Coup in Poland
The European Union talks constantly about democracy in principal, but seems to be opposed in practice to it. Ostensibly…
Saint of the Day Quote: Blessed Jeremiah of Valachia
Yes, Jesus, come! Thank you! Last words of Blessed Jeremiah of Valachia.
October 30, 1938: War of the Worlds
How little it took to panic the country 87 years ago! The War of the Worlds broadcast on Halloween Eve 1938 by Orson Welles…
Requiescat in Pace: Patrick Stewart
Patrick Stewart, best known as Captain Picard in Star Trek The Next Generation, has passed away at age 86. He had a varied…
Saint of the Day Quote: Blessed Maria Restituta
I have lived for Christ; I want to die for Christ. Last words of Blessed Maria Restituta before being guillotined by the Nazis on…
The Shock of Recognition
News that I missed, courtesy of The Babylon Bee: MEMPHIS, TN – Local man Quinton Parker went to a friend’s house Friday…
Lula, Recall Maduro
The slang term “maduroed” is a political reference to being suddenly captured, ousted, or removed from power by U.S. military or federal authorities, inspired…
Thought for the Day
The Church is always right. It is only the men temporarily misruling her who are ever wrong. Example: the Church follows the command of…
Criminal Conspiracy to Commit Election Fraud
I think that the Democrats just lost the Senate election in Alaska, and Mary Peltola better put a good criminal defense attorney on…
Saint of the Day Quote: Saint Simon the Zealot
11 Who also said: Ye men of Galilee, why stand you looking up to heaven? This Jesus who is taken up from you into heaven,…
LeoWatch: Urban II
Presumably the Pope also rejects the Holy Wars that God commanded Israel to fight in the Old Testament. We live in the age of…
Burn of the Day
Must our hapless bench of bishops continually work overtime to make the Church in this country appear to be just another insane Leftist NGO?
History Rhymes
Rigging an election and trying to toss the losing candidate into prison on trumped up charges sounds very familiar to American ears. …
Happy Birthday Colonel!
With the first Roosevelt to occupy the oval office, America strode onto the world stage. From building the Panama Canal, resolving the Russo-Japanese…
Saint of the Day Quote: Saint Elesbaan
In Ethiopia, St. Elesbaan, king, who, after having defeated the enemies of Christ and sent his royal diadem to Jerusalem, in the time of…
LeoWatch: The Pope’s Man in Chicago
Cupich is beyond retirement age. The Pope could remove him at any time. I assume he keeps him in place because he approves of…
Bad Marriages Are A Gift From Satan
My Bride and I have been married for 44 years and three kids. We have known triumph, disaster, great joys and great tears,…
Our Southwest Misadventure
A guest post by my Bride on our trip on the Southwest Chief: Hail to the (Southwest) Chief! Not this Chief, though. This is…
And Many Happy Returns!
Frank Sinatra said it with more conviction:
Blind Guides
I do wonder at times if most bishops believe in anything other than their careers. In my more cynical moments I know that…
Requiescat in Pace: Walter Koenig
Too sad. Walter Koenig has passed away at age 90. He will be always best known for his role as Ensign Chekov on…
This Never Gets Old
Whatever else he does, Trump deserves everlasting thanks to putting paid to that witch’s political ambitions.
Saint of the Day Quote: Saint Cuthbert of Canterbury
[A]ll the most sacred Festivals of Our Lord made Man, in all things pertaining to the same, viz.: in the Office of Baptism, the…
LeoWatch: Leftist Cranks Cosplaying as “Nuns”
Pope Leo has demonstrated an alarming, if unsurprising, taste of raising women associated with dying Leftist female religious orders to positions of power in…
Ordinary Lunacy
Saint Cardinal Newman dealt with this type of utter folly in his day: NOW I am to speak of the Vatican definition,…
October 26, 1921: Warren G. Harding Speaks About Race in Birmingham, Alabama
Americans have a pleasing illusion that politics was at one time a pristine pursuit in the land of the free and the home…
Open Thread: I’m Back!
Most vacations I have taken in my life have been a pleasure, and in the case of a few it has been a…
The Girl Who Reversed Agincourt
Joan was a being so uplifted from the ordinary run of mankind that she finds no equal in a thousand years. She embodied…
