I want to teach the young and to inspire them with the love of God and liking for work. I want to help the poor and relieve them of some of their misery. These are the things I want to do. Saint Mary Magdalen Postel
However he is not a devotee of the traditional Mass, so all is well in the eyes of the Vatican. Go here for some background on the award he was given.
HE was descended of a good family in Kent. From his infancy he turned all his thoughts and affections to attain to the most perfect love of God, and studied to devote all his moments to this glorious pursuit. In this earnest desire, in the twelfth year of his age, he retired into […]
Any old woman can love God better than a doctor of theology can. Saint Bonaventure
Georgia was the last of the former Confederate States to be readmitted to the Union. Congress refused to sit Georgia representatives or senators in Congress in 1869 due to the action of the Georgia legislature in expelling black members of that body. This was followed by an attack by a white mob in the town […]
I support this, but I predict that if it becomes law it will be quickly reversed. Kids will be walking to school in darkness and that will cause an avalanche of stories about how unsafe this all is. Happened before in the seventies, in 1973-1974 when I was a junior in high school, and […]
Music and silence—how I detest them both! How thankful we should be that ever since our Father entered Hell—though longer ago than humans, reckoning in light years, could express—no square inch of infernal space and no moment of infernal time has been surrendered to either of those abominable forces, but all has been occupied by […]
“Mother, look at this cross; oh! how beautiful it is! It has been my whole happiness during my life, and I advise you also to make it yours.” Saint Kateri Tekakwitha
Go here to read the article. A favorite author of my Bride. She has read some of her works in the original Norwegian.
Attacking a politician for not having his nose in the trough is a new one on me, and I frequently disagreed with the late Senator Graham.
The three best scenes from Casablanca. Shocked! Shocked! Round up the usual suspects.
I recall when I was a kid that some of the older priests I quietly observed, seemed distinctly less than enthusiastic about Vatican II. They rarely spoke out, but they did not reflect the rah-rah official tone about Vatican II. Of course we were being taught Catechism by reading the Baltimore Catechism, and I could […]
Amazing, and very troubling, that we still know almost nothing about the motivation of the would be assassin, who came within a fraction of an inch of altering American history.
I shall remain always with you and I shall never abandon you! Sain by Saint Clelia Barbieri to her fellow sisters as she was dying at age 23 in 1870. Since that time her voice has been heard during Scriptural readings and hymns at Masses, in houses of the Order she founded, Little Sisters […]
News that I missed, courtesy of The Babylon Bee: BIRMINGHAM, AL — Local man Brett Callahan informed his wife that he wouldn’t be able to mow the lawn today as he was completely tied up playing a lawn-mowing simulator. Despite his wife’s pleas that the grass was now taller than their toddler, who had been […]
The US in the past ten years has grown its economy to be a third larger than the economy of the European Union, and the richest country in the European Union, Germany, has a gross domestic product per capita slightly less than Mississippi, the poorest State in the US. That the average America is […]
Jesus loved everyone. He created each and every person in love. He loved and always will love everyone. His love, the love of God, keeps each person in existence every moment of their lives from now until forever. His love was limitless, divine. It was the kind of love that could not be any greater: […]
“I cannot refuse what you ask in Christ’s name. I grant you your life, and I give you my friendship. Pray that God may forgive me my sin.” Said by Saint John Gaulbert to his brother’s murderer, a man whom the Saint had pledged to kill, and who was now pleading for mercy.
Eighth of December 1941 People went crazy Right here in Guam. Oh, Mr. Sam, Sam My dear Uncle Sam, Won’t you please Come back to Guam. Resistance song sung by the people of Guam during World War II Acquired by the US pursuant to the treaty that ended the Spanish-American War in 1898, by the […]
“Since the realm of England was first a realm was there never in it so great a robber and pillager of the Commonwealth read of nor heard of as is our king” (Thomas Hale, Priest executed in the reign of Henry VIII) The Reformation greatly enhanced the power of the Caesars of the day, […]
‘Through thy prayers, Holy Father, may I be preserved from the crafts and assaults of the devil!’ Saint by Saint Olga of Kiev upon her conversion to Christianity
Some people work an entire lifetime and wonder if they ever made a difference to the world. But the Marines don’t have that problem. Ronald Reagan Something for the weekend. The oldest of the official songs of a branch of the US military, the composer of the Marines’ Hymn is unknown, but is thought to have […]
Past time to end this squalid war against the Traditional Mass begun by the evil whim of one or our worst popes.
(Originally published in 2011. One of my more popular posts.) Some men become legends after their deaths and others become legends while they are alive. Lewis Burwell Puller, forever known as “Chesty”, was in the latter category. Enlisting in the Marine Corps in 1918 he would serve until 1955, rising in rank from private to […]
Leftists rely on the foolishness and greed of most of its adherents.
News that I missed, courtesy of The Babylon Bee: BUENOS AIRES — American politician Graham Platner suspended his race for the U.S. Senate this week amid allegations of sexual assault and Nazism, and reportedly fled to Argentina. According to federal agents, Platner was believed to be hiding out in a small house in Vicente López, […]
