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Brutally Honest
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"If You Take Away Religion, You Can't Hire Enough Police"
What follows, from Harvard Business Professor Clay Christensen, is true... whether acknowledged or not by the cultural elite: H/T to the Reverend Sensing. Read more
Posted on 09 December 2014 SOCIETY -
What Do You Know About the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception?
Posted on 08 December 2014 SOCIETY -
Best Version of the Hallelujah Song I've Seen Or Heard Yet
With a Christian makeover of the original Leonard Cohen lyrics more fitting for the season, by the band Cloverton: I've heard about this baby boyWho's come... Read more
Posted on 07 December 2014 SOCIETY -
Botched Yemen Rescue Attempt by American Special Forces, Hostages Killed
Tragic news this morning coming out of Yemen: Al Qaeda militants killed American hostage Luke Somers and a South African captive in Yemen during a raid conducte... Read more
Posted on 06 December 2014 SOCIETY -
"That Would Indeed Be a Shocking Thing for a Pope to Say..."
Tom McDonald over at Patheos is setting the record straight on yet another Pope Francis quote causing ripples across the Catholic and cultural landscape: The... Read more
Posted on 05 December 2014 SOCIETY -
Signs of the Apocalypse
The fact that there are some who will watch and listen to what follows and nod agreement with the message being conveyed should scare you. No, really. It.... Read more
Posted on 05 December 2014 SOCIETY -
"I Think I Was the SEC Defensive Player of the Year Last Year ... So I Don't...
It's the thing these days to play the victim. So why shouldn't Michael Sam do the thing: Michael Sam believes he's not on a NFL roster because of the fact he's... Read more
Posted on 04 December 2014 SOCIETY -
What in Hell is Repentance? Why in Hell Does It Matter?
Before I get started here, let me confess what might ought to be obvious. The word hell (twice) in the post's title is admittedly gimmicky. It's my sophomoric... Read more
Posted on 02 December 2014 SOCIETY -
“We Are Living Through a Third World War, a War in Pieces, in Chapters,...
Pope Francis, on his return flight from Turkey, minced no words as to actions Muslims need to take: On his in-flight press conference returning from a... Read more
Posted on 02 December 2014 SOCIETY -
Depressed Much? Unhappy? Might It Be Because You're Adrift?
We all go through times of melancholy and to deny that there might be medical reasons for those times is to deny reality but there might also be spiritual... Read more
Posted on 01 December 2014 SOCIETY -
"God Does Not Play Around with Our Souls"
Love the metaphor used here by W.L. Grayson when he makes the claim that the Church uses live ammo: I’ve observed a general feeling in much of the world today... Read more
Posted on 01 December 2014 SOCIETY -
"Does It Demand Courage to Be a Catholic Today?"
Fr. Martin R. Tripole answers the question we who claim the mantle of Catholicism ought to all be pondering: When is the last time you saw someone display... Read more
Posted on 30 November 2014 SOCIETY -
"We Must Stop Failing."
David Warren is stepping on Catholic toes over at The Catholic Thing, particularly the toes of the dispassionate, lukewarm, flaccid and largely disinterested... Read more
Posted on 29 November 2014 SOCIETY -
Signs of Societal Decay, Holiday Edition
These headlines coming at us from Drudge tell the story: Shoppers Brawl Over BARBIE Doll At WALMART...Cops Pry Women Off Of TVs... 'Shoppers Literally Stealing... Read more
Posted on 28 November 2014 SOCIETY -
What Can Supplant All the Ugliness in the World?
I watched Monday night's happenings in Ferguson with the wife. I watched up until the looting and mayhem began in earnest, ironically at or about the same time... Read more
Posted on 26 November 2014 SOCIETY -
The Error of Impartiality
"It is manifestly most unreasonable that intelligent men should be divided upon the absurd modern principle of regarding every clever man who cannot make up... Read more
Posted on 25 November 2014 SOCIETY -
"A Conscience is a Good Guide…if It is Well-formed."
I look forward to every new Tod Worner post and his latest gives sound reason why that's so: It was at this time that I couldn’t help thinking about St. Read more
Posted on 25 November 2014 SOCIETY -
"The New Compassion That Has Crept into Our Courts... for the Breakers of the...
“The new compassion that has crept into our courts and into our literature and drama is the compassion for the breakers of the law, for the thieves, the dope... Read more
Posted on 24 November 2014 SOCIETY -
"It Makes My Heart Burst"
Via George Sipe at Convert Journal comes word of a CNN piece that was aired last week titled Call to the Collared: CNN’s Lisa Ling produces specials... Read more
Posted on 23 November 2014 SOCIETY -
The Challenge of Catholicism
During his homily last week, Father Mike, my priest, passed along a statistic claiming that only 7% of Catholics are engaged Catholics, passionately active in... Read more
Posted on 23 November 2014 SOCIETY