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• There Are Good and Decent People in This World

  

  And some of them live in Bayton, Texas: Texas firefighters finished mowing the lawn of a man who suffered a heart attack mid-mow and comforted his wife in an ac... Read more

  Posted on 31 August 2014 SOCIETY

• "Atrocities Happen Because There Are Those Who Commit Them, and Those Who...

  

  Deacon Greg brings us to these thoughtfully heartfelt and insightfully challenging words given by Cardinal Donald Wuerl, Catholic University of America... Read more

  Posted on 29 August 2014 SOCIETY

• "We Don’t Have a Strategy Yet."

  

  The President of the United States made an incredible, even for him, admission today: President Obama admitted today that his administration does not yet have... Read more

  Posted on 29 August 2014 SOCIETY

• 'It is Absolutely Crucial for the Survival of Western Civilization for Those in...

  

  Fr. Longenecker with a must read warning for every one of us: The majority of people of influence in the West either don't "do religion" or they keep religion... Read more

  Posted on 28 August 2014 SOCIETY

• “Benedict XVI is Probably One of the Few Figures to Have Profoundly Understood...

  

  “... and its struggle to find a place in modern society.” That and much more, all of it worthy, over at Crisis Magazine in this piece by George Rutler called... Read more

  Posted on 27 August 2014 SOCIETY

• "Proving That Climate Change is Directly Responsible Could Be Difficult..."

  

  But since when has that stopped the Church of Chicken Little? And up through the ground came a bubbling greenhouse gas. Researchers have discovered 570 plumes o... Read more

  Posted on 26 August 2014 SOCIETY

• #NatsMass - A Winning Strategy?!

  

  This, in the Washington Post no less, is encouraging: Fans who stream into the Navy Yard district before Nats games are now greeted with increasingly varied... Read more

  Posted on 26 August 2014 SOCIETY

• Are Black Masses Arguments for the Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist?

  

  Daniel Vecchio believes so and breaks down the logic: If Satan directs people to mock that which are a sacrilege to God, then he seems to be divided against... Read more

  Posted on 25 August 2014 SOCIETY

• “If No One is Pope, EVERYONE is Pope!”

  

  Excellent teaching from Msgr. Charles Pope commemorating today's Gospel reading: “If no one is Pope, EVERYONE is pope!” Without a visible head, there is no... Read more

  Posted on 24 August 2014 SOCIETY

• Do We Really Need to Go There My Fellow Christians?

  

  I'm seeing a smattering of my fellow believers using Matthew 6 to criticize the ALS ice bucket challenge: Teaching about Almsgiving. Read more

  Posted on 23 August 2014 SOCIETY

• Yet Another Blow to Religious Liberty

  

  This one in California: Gov. Jerry Brown's administration has reversed an earlier decision to allow two Catholic universities to eliminate coverage of most... Read more

  Posted on 22 August 2014 SOCIETY

• How Might a Two Minute Phone Conversation Threaten Religious Liberty?

  

  Read and learn: The New York State Division of Human Rights (DHR) has ruled that the Roman Catholic owners of an Albany-area farm violated the civil rights of... Read more

  Posted on 22 August 2014 SOCIETY

• "The President Who Was Elected Because He Was a Hot Commodity is Now a Wet...

  

  That and a heckuva lot more from... ready for this?   Maureen Dowd: When Barack Obama first ran for president, he theatrically cast himself as the man alone on... Read more

  Posted on 21 August 2014 SOCIETY

• There Has to Be More to This Story...

  

  ... absolutely has to be more: A high school student was allegedly suspended after breaking a class rule of saying “bless you” after a classmate sneezed. Read more

  Posted on 21 August 2014 SOCIETY

• "In This Very Moment – We Are Being Confronted with a Truth That Shatters All th...

  

  There are two bloggers whose posts I cannot wait to read.   One is The Anchoress.  She has has become a goto person for me for all things Catholic and has been ... Read more

  Posted on 20 August 2014 SOCIETY

• "It Took a Long Time, Almost an Hour to Count 100 Hail Marys off on My Knuckles."

  

  By now you've likely heard about the horrific video purporting to be the ISIS snuff film of journalist James Foley who was kidnapped by rebels in Syria back in... Read more

  Posted on 20 August 2014 SOCIETY

• “Our Sufferings Today Are the Prelude of Those That You, Europeans and Western...

  

  The Archibishop of Mosul is speaking a warning: Amel Shimoun Nona, the Chaldean Catholic archbishop of Mosul, Iraq, who is now living in exile, warned that his... Read more

  Posted on 19 August 2014 SOCIETY

• Young Members of Pope's Extended Family Killed in Argentinian Car Crash

  

  Horrific news for Pope Francis this morning.  CNN with details: Two of Pope Francis' grandnephews and the boys' mother were killed early Tuesday in a car crash... Read more

  Posted on 19 August 2014 SOCIETY

• More Like This Muslim... Please

  

  Via The Blaze: An Iraqi television host started crying on-air over what ISIS has done to his country’s Christians, according to a video and translation... Read more

  Posted on 19 August 2014 SOCIETY

• "Melting Ice Caps, Flooded Cities, Droughts in the Corn Belt and Famine in the...

  

  Mark Shea has stumbled across a dire and alarming prediction "conveyed with great authority by several big-league climatologists from government and private... Read more

  Posted on 18 August 2014 SOCIETY