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All that's necessary for the forces of evil to win in the world is for enough good men to do nothing. Edmund Burke And, Ireland is...

There have been since World War II, psychologists and sociologists who have defined stages of persecution for religions. The first is  stigm...

This is too horrible to pass up. The Federal Government today announced two things. First, birth control pills will be free to all women i...

Last night in Londonderry, two Republican bombs were exploded. People in the area were evacuated quickly. This was not the headline in this ...

Some of you have wondered when I was going to write my anti-Gramsci articles here. Well, here is the first of many. I wrote on this befor...

International Pope warns US against 'radical secularism' January 19, 2012 01:55 PM Pope Benedict XVI. (AP Photo/...

Look at the great article on feminism as a heresy at Crisis , one of the links on my bloglist. And, I am sure all you out there know to cl...

The Irish Catholic online today reported the contentious Labour position which may endanger all religious, denominational schools in th...

OK-- I had the last of Classical Education. We studied Locke, de Tocqueville, Montesquieu, the Federalist and Anti-Federalist Papers. We st...

I write to you in the States and to those on the Continent of Europe. I do not write to those in Great Britain as there is more of an a...

Scholars argue, even today, on Thomas Aquinas' idea of Beauty as an Attribute of God. It depends on whether one sees him as primarily ...

Now, a disclaimer. I never played with Barbie and her friends. I had twenty-two dolls, (I was the only girl), and I duly baptized them all w...

We know that the term "sectarian violence", when used to lie about the persecution of Christians by certain non-Christian religi...

Decree on the Apostolate of the Laity   click here On another blog, there is a discussion on the laity. Fr. Blake has started an importa...

For the first time in decades, a  cerimoniere pontificio  -  Monsignor Marco Agostini , an official in the State Secretariat who has also be...

Now, I am not married, but I live a celibate life-style. However, I have an increasing number of friends, traditional Catholics, who have op...

archived photo of St. Kevin's I spent a lovely morning at the Tridentine Mass at St. Kevin's in Dublin and then had coffee and...

Men did not make room for women and children   Click here for eyewitness report. Check this out. Chivalry is dead. Some of us have known t...

I have been doing a mini-study for an article on illiteracy in 2012. I noticed something very interesting...Note the countries with the lowe...

Do we know longer believe in tough love, that is, love which is real it based on Truth and not on feel-good nicety-nicety? Pray for the bis...