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This is a four-post day, as the Internet is so unrealiable at this time, I shall take advantage of the connection. And, I shall try and en...

As a Notre Dame graduate, I am publicly against the fifty faculty members, some of whom were there when I was, for censoring the brave a...

Ruins of Fountains Abbey, destroyed by the civil powers of England Here is a section from lengthy article from the Catholic Herald o...

Language is the key to understanding a person's political stand and philosophy of life. One way Catholics can sense or hear that a perso...

Early in the morning, I stood outside in the wind coming off the English Channel, in temperatures hovering about 37 degrees Fahrenheit, I sa...

As one who has always mistrusted the emotions, I have relied on my good, scholastic training. However, we are all limited in our imaginati...

I have never used this blog for medical posts, but I want to give this link on new discoveries on breast cancer, reiterating something I hav...

Upate from France24 Live Blog: 10:32 According to second round voting intentions,  54% of people will vote for Hollande and 46% for Sar...

What Americans do not realize is the real fight between far-left and either moderate or far-right politics in Europe. More money was just ...

I shall post later today, after news of the French elections come online and on the telly. This will be after 5:00 French time. That the Eur...

Pray for France today and tomorrow. I am very concerned. Read this , please. These are dangerous and crucial times. There is a strange c...

Even though we are not close to the Feast of the Beheading of St. John the Baptist, or the Birth of St. John, both unusually feasts, pointin...

Fascinating that Gramsci and others who did not want the authority and influence of the Church in Europe, South America, and North America u...

I am finally on Fr. Z's bloglist. Sigh. Now, if I could only earn a gold star once on his blog. But, I do not have the right kind of a...

I find it disturbing, yet have some thankfulness, that more and more Catholic writers are using the word, kulturkmapf, which those of ...

"What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of res...

Bismarck in Germany, Croce in Italy (according to some), Dewey in America, Lenin in Russia (although he never wrote an article on pedagogy),...

Some bloggers are more cautious than I am about the SSPX news. I am very hopeful and read these statements as moves to get the SSPX members ...