The beatification Mass of Bishop Sheen will be tomorrow at the Saint Louis Cathedral and will be live streamed. Sheen’s encounter with the FBI and their noting that he talked his way out of a ticket with a cop in 1943, reminds me of my late friend Ollie Zivney. A Navy Corpsman during World War
God and God, only God, forever! I love prayer; quiet nights outdoors under the sky are my happiness. Blessed Bernardina Maria Jablonska
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The “Checkers Speech” given by Richard Nixon which allowed him to stay on the ticket as Vice-President on September 23, 1952. The speech got its name from Nixon’s use of the pet dog given to his daughters, Checkers, to gain sympathy by stating that the girls had gotten fond of the dog and he
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My apologies from the outset. I am fully aware that is an unabashedly “hook” title. Hobson’s Choices The hook title above presents an unreal “Hobson’s choice” for young catholic women, e.g., choices unrealistically limited, such as choosing between: A rock or a hard place The frying pan or the fire Scylla and Charybis The lesser
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A woman’s strength lies in her faith. Saint Lioba
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Voltaire, in the eighteenth century, took the absence of the Hittite Empire from Greek and Roman classical sources as evidence of the unreliability of Scripture. Mr. Blake, that is your cue: Mock on, mock on, Voltaire, Rousseau; Mock on, mock on; ’tis all in vain! You throw the sand against the wind, And the
Thy kingdom come. The last words said by Saint Maura Troyes as she was saying a Pater Noster at the time of her death.
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Bryan got the Democrat nomination in 1896, a complete dark horse candidate, due to his Cross of Gold speech delivered on July 9, 1896. It catapulted Bryan, the youngest nominee of any major party at age 36, into the Democratic nomination for president in 1896. Perhaps the greatest American orator of his time,
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History is the paint that God uses as the Greatest Artist He is.
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Trump was put on this Earth to make deals. That is the essence of the man. His enemies always forget this, and too often his friends do also.
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Bring up all the comments you had stored up while the blog was down. The usual Open Thread rules apply: be concise, be charitable and, above all, be amusing!
God will provide Saint José María de Yermo y Parres
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I think we have the gremlins flying back to Moscow now! The blog received a malicious attack and it took us a while to resolve the issues, but we are back in business! Thank you Saint Vidicon of Cathode!
At Barcelona in Spain, blessed Maria de Cervellione, Virgin of the Order of Our Lady of Ransom. She is commonly called Maria of Help on account of the prompt assistance she renders to those who invoke her. Roman Martyrology
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It will be as God wishes. Said by Blessed Carlo Erana Guruceta during the weeks prior to his murder at the hands of Spanish Republican militiamen at the onset of the Spanish Civil War.
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The school of Christ is the school of love. In the last day, when the general examination takes place… Love will be the whole syllabus. Saint Robert Bellarmine
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Using a computer at the law mines and I am able to get through to the dash board. I will post what I can between legal activities.
The God I love looks to the heart and not to the dress. Saint Edith of Wilton
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The most successful partisan in American history, Francis Marion, and his colleagues Thomas Sumter and Andrew Pickens, and a host of others, led bands of irregulars in South Carolina after the British took Charleston in 1780. The diminutive Marion kept his men under tight control, and launched constant raids on the British. When regular
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And when I hear it said that God is good and He will pardon us, and then see that men cease not from evil-doing, oh, how it grieves me! The infinite goodness with which God communicates with us, sinners as we are, should constantly make us love and serve Him better; but we, on the
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June 25, 1950, the North Koreans, at the instigation of Stalin, invaded South Korea. The US, under UN auspices, and with the help of allied nations around the globe, intervened under General Douglas MacArthur. In a brilliant campaign, MacArthur led the American and allied forces to victory, largely destroying the North Korean Army and conquering
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Soviet troops used to call it “Going Hollywood” when they rode in American trucks and ate Spam.
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At Treves, the holy bishop Maternus, a disciple of the blessed apostle Peter, who brought to the faith of Christ the inhabitants of Tongres, Cologne, Treves, and of the neighboring country. Roman Martyrology
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Burton made the film Where Eagles Dare (1968) because his kids wanted to see him in an exciting action film. Burton consumed around four bottles of vodka a day during filming, and often delayed filming by going on drunken binges, the self destructive behavior which would lead him to an early grave in 1984
As James Madison noted in Federalist 46, the freedom to keep and bear arms is a safeguard against tyranny: Notwithstanding the military establishments in the several kingdoms of Europe, which are carried as far as the public resources will bear, the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms. And it is
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Whether we deserve them or not. We must always remember that the Church is both a human and a divine institution: One of our great allies at present is the Church itself. Do not misunderstand me. I do riot mean the Church as we see her spread but through all time and space and rooted
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Mercy imitates God and disappoints Satan. Saint John Chrysostom
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Anyone who expects anything out of this Pope except usual lockstep adherence to the hoof prints of Francis will likely be disappointed.
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Most elected Democrats have usually had only brief periods of private sector employment, if that, before becoming full time politicians.
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Hattip to Amanda Servello for the pic at the beginning of this post. Today we recall the charge of the winged Polish hussars on September 12, 1683, 343 years ago, that broke the back of the Turkish army besieging Vienna. John Sobieski, the Polish King, fifty-four years old, had been fighting the Turks since
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Look to the star of the sea, call upon Mary … in danger, in distress, in doubt, think of Mary, call upon Mary. May her name never be far from your lips, or far from your heart … If you follow her, you will not stray; if you pray to her, you will not despair;
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Anyone who could look at the September 11 attack and completely ignore Islamic terrorism is an ideologue who should not be trusted by any Christian.
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Something for the weekend. Samuel Barber’s Adagio for Strings, performed as a tribute to our September 11, 2001 dead. Never forget them.
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This should be taught in our schools. Ordinary Americans, faced with the knowledge that their hijackers were going to use the plane they were on as a guided missile to attack America, fought back and made sure that their hijackers would kill only them that day. Before they attacked they took a vote, because
