Author: S&P
What the rancorous Trump-Biden presidential debate says about us…
The recent presidential debate and the discussion in its wake reflect a disturbing trend. While this trend has been growing for decades, the increase in severity has picked up steam in our overheated culture. It is easy to put all the blame on the candidates and the moderator, but we must recognize that they reflect us. America is at a boiling point. Two divergent views of what our country has bee...
Editor of magazine called “the leading intellectual voice of the American left” posts chilling and revealing tweet: “I think killing little Romanov children was justified”…
You may not have heard of the magazine Jacobin. It’s an intellectual magazine of the democratic socialist left — not the liberal left, but the democratic socialist left. It was founded in 2010 by Bhaskar Sunkara, a radical college student born and raised in suburban New York. From a 2016 Vox profile of him: Jacobin has in the past five years become the leading intellectual voice of the Americ...
50 years ago, Solzhenitsyn received the Nobel Prize for reminding us of a ‘forgotten God’…
COMMENTARY: On Oct. 8, 1970, the Russian writer who exposed communism’s hatred for God was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. “In 1949, some friends and I came upon a noteworthy news item in Nature, a magazine of the Academy of Sciences.” So opens Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s majestic The Gulag Archipelago, a seemingly odd start for a classic on the Soviet gulag, the nation’s forced labor camps. R...
Hong Kong Catholic activist Jimmy Lai: ‘The Lord is suffering with me’…
HONG KONG — A recently arrested Hong Kong entrepreneur and media executive said this week that he plans to stay in Hong Kong to face criminal charges stemming from his support for democracy on the island territory. The executive, Jimmy Lai, said that the Chinese Communist Party wants to supplant religion with government control. “When you lift yourself above your own self-interest, you find ...
Mike Pence and Kamala Harris clash on abortion, Amy Coney Barrett during debate…
CNA Staff, Oct 8, 2020 / 08:30 am MT (CNA).- Vice President Mike Pence and Democratic vice-presidential nominee Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) sparred over accusations of anti-Catholic bias, the Knights of Columbus, and filling a Supreme Court vacancy before election day. The candidates spoke during the in-person debate held on Wednesday evening at the University of Utah. Amy Coney Barrett, a ...
Pope Francis meets with Australian nuncio, amid €700,000 bank transfer allegation…
VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis today received in private audience the apostolic nuncio to Australia amid allegations that hundreds of thousands of euros were sent from the Secretariat of State to the nunciature in Canberra around the time of Cardinal George Pell’s trial for sexual abuse. Vatican sources have told the Register that the Pope summoned Filipino Archbishop Adolfo Tito Yllana to Rom...
Loving one another is the way to go…
It’s 1 a.m., and there’s a helicopter hovering overhead. Seems typical for New York City these days. I was part of the crowd that fled New York for a bit during this pandemic year. So maybe I’m part of the problem. Upon my return, some days, I feel like all I see is human misery. That obviously isn’t the whole story, but consider a few scenes. Healthy-looking, well-dressed, good-looking men in the...
In a new era of menacing wildfires, there are lessons to be learned from the people who stay and defend their properties…
By noon, the skies to the north of the Houstons’ property were pitch-black. Every few minutes they heard the huge explosions of propane tanks erupting. Kathryn had gathered up their pets—three cats, four dogs, a parrot, and a cockatiel—and loaded them into a box trailer parked in the horse pasture, which was bare dirt at that time of year. As the fire drew nearer, they started wetting do...
17 things every Catholic should know about Carlo Acutis…
“I am happy to die because I have lived my life without wasting a minute on those things that do not please God.” —Carlo Acutis As we approach the beatification of Venerable Carlo Acutis on Oct. 10, here are some interesting facts and details to know about this young soon-to-be-saint. An inspiration to so many, including young children and teens, Carlo died a young boy at the age of 15 after a bri...
When I was a Swiss Guard, I learned that the Rosary was my most powerful weapon…
On the liturgical calendar October 7th is the Feast of Our Lady of the Rosary. This feast celebrates the naval victory of the Holy League fleet at Lepanto which in 1571 saved Christian Civilization from defeat at the hands of the Ottoman Empire. Pope Pius V knew well the tremendous importance of resisting the aggressive expansion of the Ottomans and the certain consequences of defe...
Archbishop Sheen was right: America’s cultural decline began “the 6th of August, 1945” when we nuked Hiroshima. Even today, the moral arguments for abortion and the bombing are remarkably similar…..
By Fr. Jerry Pokorsky ( bio – articles – email ) | Oct 05, 2020 Most regular visitors to this site would probably agree that our culture is broken. When did it break? Maybe we lost the culture in 1973 when the Supreme Court presumed to make the “right to abortion” the law of the land. Perhaps the sexual revolution of the 1960s marked the beginning of the end. But our cultural decline m...
Sergio Kato a Brazilian Native
Sergio Kato served the Brazilian Air Force This nation will be the land of the free and only. “Also be prepared for Brazil, for sure will be Breadbasket of the World: Says ~Kato. Oh Brazil, always will be on the right side, and will maintain firm no matter what! Brazil is a wonderful country, of land, of mountains, rivers, Verde Oliva, green Olive”...
