I read a book this weekend, Even Silence has an End, by Ingrid Betancourt. Doctor Betancourt is a former senator and candidate for the presidency of Columbia. She was kidnapped by FARC Communist rebels while she was en route to a campaign appearance in her race for the presidency and held prisoner for six years. Even Silence has an End describes her long years in captivity. A number of her fellow captives have also written a book, Out of Captivity. ... Read more
Here is Archbishop Coakley’s letter calling for prayer and penance about the black mass in Oklahoma City. The video from Bishop Slattery, of Tulsa, Oklahoma is below that. August 4, 2014 The Memorial of St. John Vianney Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, By now you are probably aware that a Satanic group has scheduled a so-called Black Mass for Sunday, September 21 at the Civic Center Music Hall in Oklahoma City. Even though tickets are being sold for this... Read more
The story originally said 20 churches burned. Then, it was updated to 45 churches burned. It’s an old story. Out of date. After all, it happened a year ago. Which means, I suppose, that we should dust our hands of it and forget. But it’s more than a year-old story. It’s part of an on-going, continuous pattern of blood violence that rises to a genocidal scale directed at Christians by various Muslim groups throughout a whole region of the... Read more
Texas Governor Rick Perry has been indicted by a grand jury for “abuse of power.” His crime? He vetoed funding for the Travis County District Attorney’s office after District Attorney Rosemary Lehmberg refused to resign after she was convicted of a DWI. Governor Perry was indicted on two felonies: Abuse of Official Capacity, and Coercion of Public Servant. District Attorney Lehmberg was arrested for drunk driving in April of 2013. She was fined and sentenced to 45 days in... Read more
I wrote this a couple of years ago. Since I was too busy to write anything yesterday, I’ve decided to post it again today. It’s in serious need of updating in light of recent events, (which I may do on Monday) but I think it’s still worth a look, as it is. Genocide was the 20th Century’s iconic crime. It was, for much of the world, a 100-year bloodbath. Murderous governments used killers armed with everything from Xyklon B to machetes to wage... Read more
I’ve been too busy with family matters to write today. Here are a few headlines from the last 12 hours. ISIS’ and Boko Haram: ISIS Massacres 80 Yazidis in Northern Iraq. Boko Haram Abducts Dozens in Northern Nigeria. Syrian Christians facing extinction: ‘A tragedy of historic proportions’ What’s Behind Europe’s New Tolerance of Anti-Semitism? And Ebola: WHO: Ebola Outbreak ‘Vastly Underestimated.’ Inside the Ebola Outbreak with the CDC America: Hundreds Attend Emotional Charged Meeting on Firing of Church’s Gay Music... Read more
The Church is growing in South Korea. Read more
Are we watching fake shark attacks on the Discovery Channel? You decide. Read more
It looks shiny and new. But it’s hardly the limousine visiting heads of state normally use. Here’s a video of Pope Francis, stepping into his Kia for his Korean visit. Read more
I published a post a few minutes ago asking the question if the Muslim leaders who had condemned the genocide in Iraq were coming from just one side of the Sunni/Shia hostilities My colleague, Hind Makki, of the Patheos Muslim Channel, answered me with a “no.” She also supplied details as to why I was wrong in my thinking, I updated my original post with her reply. But this is important enough that I want to also do it in... Read more
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