This is a video for Darrell Waltrip’s full speech at the National Prayer Breakfast last week. Read more
This is a video for Darrell Waltrip’s full speech at the National Prayer Breakfast last week. Read more
Pope Francis and I have something in common. He asks St Thomas More to pray for him every day and so do I. He also listed “15 diseases of the Curia” in the same address to Vatican officials. Among the “diseases of the curia” are spiritual petrification, existential schizophrenia, spiritual Alzheimer’s, funeral face and gossip. I think all of us suffer from the same diseases to some degree. They are spiritual diseases of our times, and of the fallen human.... Read more
Our two-tier educational system has become essentially a trade-school education for people who live in most of the zips codes of these United States. Among other things that kids in most of our schools aren’t taught are music, philosophy, the arts and history. It is entirely possible to graduate from our public school system, go on to college and earn advanced degrees and never learn anything of these subjects at all except a smidgen of anthologized literature and a gloss of... Read more
The I Aborted My Baby because He was a Boy story is almost too perfect. By “perfect,” I mean that it reads like someone took every crazy accusation anyone ever leveled against man-hating feminists and characterized them in a blog post. Is this story a not-so-funny first-person prank? Did someone make up a tale about how they murdered their baby boy with abortion? The bedeviling thing, to me at least, is that I’ve dealt with people just as crazy... Read more
Ascension Press has released the beautiful video below to encourage young men to consider the priesthood. I am drawn to the raw honesty of these young men’s testimony. It also appeals to me that this is a video about vocation to the priesthood that focuses on God, instead of us. Too much of our discussion about vocations focuses on attacks on the liturgy, women in the Church and other things that are supposed to make us more worthy of God. That leads... Read more
President Obama’s tiresome predilection for offending Christians showed itself again at the National Prayer Breakfast last week. It seems that our prez will besmirch Christianity, even if he has to dredge up stuff from a thousand years ago and mis-characterize history to do it. I’m going to put a video of the full text of his speech below. Parts of it are good. But, as usual when President Obama talks about religion, he can’t resist taking a swipe at Christianity. This... Read more
The woman in question is Lana. Lana wrote a post for a blog called Injustice Stories. I don’t know if Injustice Stories is a series of confabulations or not, but even if it is, it’s still horrifying. In one blog post she related how she murdered her baby boy with abortion just because he was a boy. As chilling as that is, the post is worse. It’s a long explanation about how this woman killed her own child because she saw... Read more
Lt Muath al-Kasabeh, the Jordanian pilot ISIS burned alive, did not die in vain. Jordan has responded to this infamy with vows to “wipe out” ISIS and they appear to be willing to put firepower into the endeavor. Here are Jordan’s military objectives against ISIS: 1. Target top leadership, with al-Baghdadi at the helm. 2. Stop illegal revenues which ISIS has been getting from fuel. 3. Weaken and destroy training centers and logistical centers. These are sound military objectives. From... Read more
I love the piano. I mean, I really love the piano. The fact that I’ve taken it up late in life and have no ambitions about it — and I mean absolutely no ambitions about it — is part of the reason why I love it. My elderly mother is constantly telling me how much she regrets that she and my father didn’t give me piano lessons when I was a child. “You could have been someone really great, a concert pianist,”... Read more
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