July 14, 2018

I watched with curiosity the big protest against Trump in London this week. As regular readers will know, I’m not a big fan of Mr Trump, however what we saw in London really had very little to do with Donald Trump. Something else was going on which was much more interesting that Trump, a blimp and a crowd of angry people. What was interesting was the anger. I watched a few interviews with protesters and there seemed to be a... Read more

July 12, 2018

From the beginning I expressed my personal dislike of Donald Trump, and some right wing websites have even branded me a “Never Trumper”. I still don’t like the man, but I think he’s made some good decisions. Time will tell whether his legacy is a good one, or whether he crashes and burns. Putting aside my personal dislike of him, and setting aside his decisions and actions, what interests me most about Trump is his personality type and people’s reactions... Read more

July 9, 2018

Through the marvels of modern technology the whole world is watching the cave rescue in Thailand. I am as caught up in the story as many others, and I got to pondering why the story is so captivating for millions. Of course there are the obvious reasons. Every parent is on tenterhooks as we would be if our own ten year old boy was missing for weeks and stranded in a cave. We’re captivated by the heroes who are going... Read more

July 6, 2018

Amy Coney Barrett is a Catholic. Not what we might call a Kennedy Catholic or a Pelosi Catholic or a Joe Biden Catholic who support gay marriage and abortion and who knows what else. She’s a committed, conservative practicing Catholic. She’s got seven kids–five of her own and two adopted from Haiti. When she was being grilled about her nomination for circuit court judge Dianne Feinstein said, “the dogma lives loudly within you, and that is a concern.” Should a judge’s... Read more

June 29, 2018

Abortion advocates are alarmed that, with the replacement of Justice Anthony Kennedy the Supreme Court will lurch to the right and the constant challenges to abortion from the states will be approved, abortion will continue to be restricted and perhaps the historic Roe v Wade decision will be overturned, opening the way for abortion to be criminalized again. I have always been pro-life, have been on a bunch of March for Life expeditions, led youth groups to Washington for March... Read more

June 5, 2018

There is an interesting angle to the Supreme Court’s decision in favor of the Colorado baker who declined to provide a wedding cake for the wedding of a same sex couple. I believe he made the same case that was brought out in a similar story of the florist who declined to provide flowers for a same sex wedding. Baronelle Suzman’s case has also been appealed to the Supreme Court. She claims that declining to provide flowers for a same sex... Read more

June 1, 2018

I found this story from Fox News fascinating. The seventeen year old Hispanic busboy who knelt over Bobbie Kennedy’s body that summer evening fifty years ago has a story to tell. “I could feel a steady stream of blood coming through my fingers,” Romero reportedly said. “I remember I had a rosary in my shirt pocket and I took it out, thinking that he would need it a lot more than me. I wrapped it around his right hand and... Read more

May 31, 2018

CNN reports about prosperity pastor Jesse Duplantis who want the faithful to cough up $54m for a new jet. It’s all very easy to jump on the band wagon and condemn Pastor Jesse for wanting a new jet and for preaching the prosperity gospel, but what is the big deal? We should realize that Jesse is not just being a prosperity preacher. He’s being a Protestant preacher. Check your history. Protestantism was born out of a particular culture, a particular... Read more

May 29, 2018

My sons go to a camp in North Carolina every summer. This is an old fashioned kind of camp where the boys and girls are segregated. The guys sleep in lumpy bunks in basic cabins, get up early to swim in the turtle infested lake, run around half clad like wild men, and spend the summer avoiding bears in the blueberry patches, chasing each other in mud battles, sleeping under the stars, singing raucous songs and working up an appetite... Read more

May 23, 2018

Jacob Rees Mogg is a not only a perfect English gentleman of the old school, he is also a committed conservative Catholic and a consummate politician. Usually when we hear the word “politician” we think of some grubby, obese slime ball doing back room deals while chomping on a stogie. Not so Mr Rees Mogg. Instead he is consistently articulate, tolerant, street smart and saavy, while being courteous and self deprecating. He also does not compromise his Catholic faith, and... Read more


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