Bats in the Belfry
Reminds me of the plan during World War II to trap foxes, paint them luminescent green, and use them to terrify the Japanese garrison…
Saint of the Day Quote: Blessed Vincent Bossilkov
The traces of our blood assure a bright future for the Church in Bulgaria. Blessed Vincent Bossilkov
Well Said Samurai
For people and nations, a dividing line is whether anything is learned by an experience, good and bad. That Japan has been a…
Saint of the Day Quote: Blessed Gregory Lakota
In the Abez concentration camp in Russian Siberia, Blessed Gregory Lakota, Bishop of Przemyśl and martyr, who, seeing the faith of his homeland despised…
Trump Second Term Blues
During his first term Trump said a lot of crazy stuff, but he basically governed like a conservative Republican president. After his near miraculous…
Lest We Forget
The Irish Guards WE’RE not so old in the Army List, But we’re not so young at our trade, For we had the…
Saint of the Day Quote: Saint Martin of Tours
With the sign of the Cross, I shall break through more enemy ranks than if armed with shield and sword. Saint Martin…
Theodore Roosevelt: Remember Them
The men who have died of pneumonia or fever in the hospitals, the men who have been killed in accidents on the airplane training…
Too True
In times of war and not before, God and the soldier we adore. But in times of peace and all things righted, God is…
Burn of the Day
I could have cited other years. The largest majority, for example, was the Democrat majority of 313 in the 1932 election, but I thought…
Saint of the Day Quote: Saint Justus of Canterbury
“In the meantime, Archbishop Justus was taken up to the heavenly kingdom, on the 10th of November, and Honorius, who was elected to the…
LeoWatch: Comrade Bob
How heavily dependent is the Pope on speech writers? I assume he is fluent in Spanish, although I have been told that Argentinian Spanish…
Happy 251st Birthday to the Corps!
You cannot exaggerate about the Marines. They are convinced, to the point of arrogance, that they are the most ferocious fighters on earth…
Our Country Is In the Very Best of Hands
Go here to read the story.
November 9, 1989: Thirty-Seven Years Since the Fall of the Berlin Wall
Thirty-seven years ago today my bride and I arrived home from buying software for our Commodore 64 (Yeah, it is that long ago.) and…
Saint of the Day Quote: Saint Theodore Tyro
I am a Christian. It is Christ alone that I love. He is the King whom I serve, and to Him alone that I…
Truth With the Bark On
16 But the king said to him: I adjure thee again and again, that thou tell me nothing but that which is true in the…
Saint of the Day Quote: Blessed Maria Crucified Satellico
I want to become a nun and, if I succeed, I want to become a saint. Blessed Maria Crucified Satellico
End Times
42 Watch ye therefore, because ye know not what hour your Lord will come. 43 But know this ye, that if the goodman of the house…
Let Us Hear No More of Karl Rove
I also got the election wrong, but my political prognostications are always the musings of an amateur, while Rove’s musings give him national attention. …
November 8, 1864: Lincoln Re-elected
Ohio claims they are due a president as they haven’t had one since Taft. Look at the United States, they have not had…
Burn of the Day
My kids watched Veggie Tales all the time when they were little. Very clever and very funny show with good moral content. I am…
Saint of the Day Quote: Blessed Anthony Baldinucci
“O Lord, I do not know what to ask you. You alone know my real needs, and you love me more than I even…
LeoWatch: Cult of Personality
Some Catholics seem bound and determined to live out the worst slurs against the Church.
The Vikings
Something for the weekend. Remake of the funeral theme from The Vikings (1958). Bonus 1: Bonus 2: Bonus 3:
Trump Gets Ready to Rumble
This does not mean that Trump will not try to cut deal in the new Democrat controlled Congress. Deal making is what Trump was…
Crusaders
Canteens to supply free food and drink to service men and women traveling by train during World War II, all totally privately funded and…
Seventy Years Since the Hungarian Revolt
I stand for God, for the Church and for Hungary. This responsibility has been imposed upon me by the fate of the nation which…
Saint of the Day Quote: Blessed Josefa Naval Girbes
Love, love, and always love. Blessed Josefa Naval Girbes
Open Thread: Cruz Explains It All
Friend of the blog H.W. Crocker III, historian and novelist, pointed out this statement above by Senator Ted Cruz of Texas to me. …
Agreed
I agree with Bill Clinton’s favorite pollster. Mr. Penn has been a voice for sanity in the past ten years. If Trump can take…
And Then You Wake Up
I am all in favor of civility and I try to practice it. However we live in a fallen world, and polite faces can…
Saint of the Day Quote: Saint Zachary
62 And they made signs to his father, how he would have him called. 63 And demanding a writing table, he wrote, saying: John is his…
The Wisdom of Jacob Astley
I have found two quotes by Jacob Astley, a Royalist General in the First English Civil War, to be quite useful during my life. …
John Adams: Washington’s Ten Talents
“The History of our Revolution will be one continued lye [sic] from one end to the other. The essence of the whole will be…
