A video protesting Radical Islamic nutjobs has gone viral in the Middle East. 30,000 Muslims in the UK marched against ISIS. Why didn’t we hear about it? Also, the Muslim community tried to warn the cops about the bomber. They didn’t listen. The failure of the cops should not blind us to the fact that the Muslim community is trying to be vigilant about the nuts. Moreover, 70,000 Indian Muslim clerics issued a fatwa against terrorism. So did a Pakistani... Read more
A reader writes: Mark, please share this prayer request through any social media or blog. I was part of the Catholic blogosphere many years ago under the name Mephibosheth and the blog “And Also with You.” I was moved by Simcha’s recent news because we are going through the exact same experience. My mother has been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s for some 18 months now, and she has been able to remain home with my father under home health. However sometime... Read more
…that killing was only 3% of what he did. It was only 300,000 victims a year. He’s actually a hero when you think about it, mentally, I mean. Read more
From The Man Who Was Thursday, one of the strangest and most novels ever written: You’ve got that eternal idiotic idea that if anarchy came it would come from the poor. Why should it? The poor have been rebels, but they have never been anarchists; they have more interest than anyone else in there being some decent government. The poor man really has a stake in the country. The rich man hasn’t; he can go away to New Guinea in... Read more
Her mother has advanced Alzheimer’s and it’s a trying time right now. Read more
One man died with the words a saint might say on his lips: “He said, ‘Tell them, I want everybody to know, I want everybody on the train to know, I love them.'” Another was a heroic Catholic father of four. Both stepped forward to defend two women from a white racist who wrote this: Christian was much like this white racist and this white racist and joined the growing ranks of deadly white racists that take their inspiration from our... Read more
White House had a Communications Director! He just quit because who wouldn’t? Startling news for people amazed at the communications chaos pouring from the most incompetent Administration in US history. Meanwhile, I am reminded of Chesterton’s remark that the principle work of newspapers is announcing “Admiral Bangs is Dead!” to a world that never knew Admiral Bangs had been born. Read more
A ferry, green and white, chased by gulls’ cries threads waters skinned with dancing diamonds and blows its great horn to announce Work dies and Play bursts its chrysalis in the sun. We camp in a place where nothing happens. A dramatist’s desert, where story starves for lack of conflict but poems a pen pours out in praise of the greening harvest. Our sole duty is Eucharist, fitting for a place pregnant with the truth that Thanks is the first act... Read more
Merkel says Germany can no longer rely on Amerikkka under Donald Trump But, of course, the Alt Right Trump supporter notes that this is (((David Frum))). Read more
In Pittsburgh, it’s not enough for people with a consistent life ethic that cherishes human life from conception to natural death to be opposed to war. First, they must pass a completely irrelevant litmus test by believing and professing the goodness of abortion. Aimee Christine Murphy, God bless her, continues to bear consistent witness to the sacredness of human life and continues to shame the leftist ideologues who would rather war continue than that the sacrament of abortion be questioned... Read more
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