Masked gunmen shouting Allah Akbar shot and killed 12 people and critically injured 4 others at a Paris newspaper earlier today. Reportedly armed with a Kalashnikov and a rocket launcher, the attackers are said to have hijacked a car, run over a pedestrian and shot at police officers in their escape from the scene. Two police officers are reported to have been killed. The target of the attack was a satirical publication called Charlie Hebdo, which in 2012 reprinted cartoons... Read more
Copyright Thierry Ehrmann, Flickr Commons, used with permission. So, Pope Francis is going to write an encyclical on the environment, and the right wing heretics, the left wing heretics, the corporatists and the nihilists are sharpening their knives. It would be a hopeful sign, that so many of our culture warriors and mega money-men are seemingly besotted with the pope to the point of losing all common sense. It would be. Except … They are not besotted with the Pope... Read more
Copyright: Wonderlane used with permission. The wise men r us. By that I mean they are that vast reach of overlooked humanity that had no part in God’s Covenant with Abraham. The wise men are you and me, who will be, at long last and as St Paul put it, “grafted” onto the original tree of life that God planted when He raised up first a man and his wife, then their family, and finally, a people, to be the flame... Read more
… and the Gospel must first be preached to all nations. Jesus Christ Pope Francis announced the appointment of 15 new cardinals today. The Holy Father chose men from all around the globe, representing such places of Xai-Xai, which is the capital of Gaza Province in Mozambique. He appointed new cardinals for Myanmar, Thailand, Viet Nam and Ethiopia. He also appointed a couple of new cardinals to Italy and one to Portugal. None of the new cardinals were from the... Read more
“‘Will you steal and murder, commit adultery and perjury, burn incense to Baal and follow other gods you have not known, and then come and stand before me in this house, which bears my Name, and say, “We are safe”—safe to do all these detestable things? Has this house, which bears my Name, become a den of robbers to you? But I have been watching! declares theLord. Jeremiah 7: 9-11 Read more
Catholics don’t regard Christmas as one, big rousing day of overeating and gift giving. We see it as a joyful season of the Church. It lasts right up until we celebrate the visit the Wise Men paid to the baby Jesus. That kind of season thinking is hard for Americans, tied as we are to jobs and paychecks. We feel lucky if we can get off work long enough to celebrate that one big day. But a “Season?” No can... Read more
Merry Christmas my friends. Read more
Christmas and The Precious. Does it get any better? Read more
A reader at an on-line piano site that I’ve begun to frequent asked where to find sheet music for a composition called “Storm at Sea.” This composition is required playing for an annual exam given to piano students. Writing Public Catholic has sharpened my Google skills, so I went out on the internet and found links to the sheet music for this guy. Then, just out of curiosity, I went to YouTube and looked up various performances of it. What... Read more
The girls are heading out for last-minute Christmas shopping. The patio-destroying pup is on the left. Read more
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