Wednesday, 21 August 2013

Readers, I hope you understand what this means

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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/08/20/groklaw_to_shut_down/ We are heading for tyranny.

Good news for the Catholic Church in Scotland

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http://www.catholicherald.co.uk/news/2013/08/21/american-dominican-sisters-move-to-scotland/  You might recognize this group from other post...

Watch France 24 for good coverage on Egypt

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http://www.france24.com/en/ and very good on Syria, as well.

EU Joint Statement in Support of the Copts

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http://www.consilium.europa.eu/uedocs/cms_data/docs/pressdata/EN/foraff/138599.pdf

Battle of Aljubarrota (14th August 1385)

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I missed this date last week with so many feasts and events, but today  I want to highlight St. Nuno Avarez Pereria, who was a soldier,...

For my good readers, a thought for you today

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2  But having suffered many things before, and been shamefully treated (as you know) at Philippi, we had confidence in our God, to speak un...

The Dark Night Part 40 and Blaming Satan Three

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The devil, as Father Phelim points out, can only"gain a foothold on the soul through the working on its faculties." This is why...

Very interesting on Byzantium

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http://www.nationalreview.com/article/355824/siege-byzantium-raymond-ibrahim

Postscript on The Dark Night of the Soul

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I could write twenty more posts on the Dark Night as developed by St. John of the Cross. In my posts, I have been trying to unpack the poe...

Consumerism, Materialism, Pride and the Theological Virtues-The Dark Night of the Soul, Part 39

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Catholics receive the theological virtues directly from God. We all have human virtues, but the theological virtues pave the way to heave...

Portinari-another blog poem

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Io mi senti' svegliar dentro a lo core Un spirito amoroso che dormia: E poi vidi venir da lungi Amore Allegro sì, che appena il conosc...

For parents, a borrowed comment and repeated story

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I have told this story on line before. Bear with me. I had a hard birth with my son. He stopped breathing five times in the womb. I know h...
Tuesday, 20 August 2013

This is interesting...

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http://www.newsmax.com/Politics/cruz-canadian-citizenship/2013/08/19/id/521213?s=al&promo_code=14964-1

How much proof do we need? Religion of what--two

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http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2013/08/19/Muslim-Brotherhood-memo-blesses-Egyptian-church-burnings

More on my favourite saint's family

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http://supertradmum-etheldredasplace.blogspot.ie/2013/02/saints-of-february-continuedhumbeline.html

Christie comes out as not really understanding something basic

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http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/christie-homosexuality-not-sin/2013/08/19/id/521143?s=al&promo_code=14948-1  I would not support him ...

Freedom of the press?

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http://ca.news.yahoo.com/britain-forced-guardian-destroy-copy-snowden-material-222933670.html http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/201...

As usual, Buchanan is spot-on

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http://buchanan.org/blog/who-owns-the-future-2-5767 And he asks the same question I had been asking my students in the past for years, reg...

Why are the bishops silent? This is tragic.

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No statement from the USCCB, or the Great Britain or Ireland conferences of bishops on the horrible persecution of our brothers and sisters ...

A Compendium of Supertradmum on St. Bernard of Clairvaux

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Happy Feast Day, St. Bernard of Clairvaux. Here is an incomplete list of the posts on this blog concerning him. Etheldredaspl...