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The great Spencer has a chilling video on his site today. The entire episode reminded me of the Jesuit saying, "Give us a child in edu...

Prayer for Priests of St. Catherine of  Siena I beseech You, direct the hearts and wills of the servants of Your Bride, the  ...

Prayer to the Virgin Mary for Priests by Blessed John Paul II O Mary,  Mother of Jesus Christ and Mother of priests,  accept this tit...

Brietbart.tv  has a clip of Santorum attacking Obama's connections to the Black Liberation Church in Chicago, which I have written about...

Because I am thinking of the Catholic use of the media today, here is Campion's Brag . If you remember, he printed this up at Stonor Hou...

Part I On Catholics and the Media Having traveled in Europe during the past year, I am struck again and again by the lack of Catholic iden...

Chart is American Statistics for Home Schooling Excellence Homeschooling is illegal in Sweden, and if you are a Catholic, this could be ...

Without Ss. Cyril and Methodius, I might not be Catholic. My ancestors came from the same areas, including Moravia, where the two "equ...

Gramsci noted in his prison notebooks, a new edition which came out last year, and in other earlier editions, that the ruling class will cre...

Once a King or Queen in Narnia, always a King or Queen. This post comes out of a response to the one on marriage below. In my years wo...

This morning I was awakened by the song of the Thrush commonly called the Blackbird. Like the American Robin,  Turdus migratorius , this  ...

Time for a Gramsci post. That Obama is the heir to Gramsci I have been trying to point out since 2007. However, few have listened, and the y...

Many years ago, I taught a class which the students called the "isms" course. It was really a history of ideas and a history of th...

A painful family event in these days is the marriage outside of a Catholic or a Christian service of sons and daughter of practicing Cath...

Are my friends in Kent aware that some of the earliest poetry regarding St. Valentine's Day is from John Gower of Kent? Here is a snip...

See my post below from last Sunday.  Fr. David celebrates a Sung High Mass in the Extraordinary Form in the Church of St. Michael t...

I had posted this in January, but "it got deleted'. I post it again now, as Santorum is the only candidate who has spoken against...

From Creative Minority Report Rick Santorum: Frontrunner! Even when Rick Santorum surprised in Iowa, he was never considered a top c...

Just in case any Americans are stupid enough to accept the so-called compromise, look at this reference given by Margaret on Father Z's ...