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Someone asked me yesterday about the gift of discernment. Now, I have written about this several times on the blog. All Catholics who are b...

One needs St. John’s commentaries on his poetry. One needs all the help one can get in understanding the passive time of purgation. ...

Moving out of the Dark Night is noted by St. John of the Cross as the time of betrothal of the spiritual marriage. He is clear that the l...

I can honestly say that this being in America is like a death experience. Dying to self means dying to all one has desired and hoped. Thi...

Dear Readers, Please pray for two immediate needs. I am very ill.  And, I do not have internet or phone access where I am. The McDonald...

...please, for me. And, thanks. His feast day is coming up on Monday. I am invoking him as one of the patron saints of tailors.

Briefly, Fr. Chad Ripperger, whose book highlighted this past week on this blog readers should get, notes several principles ignored by thos...

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2013/11/08/207924/us-popularity-in-germany-on-a.html And, in other EU countries, America is increasingly seen a...

In the movie, Ben-Hur , one of my favorites, Judah Ben-Hur is a slave to his hatred until he forgives and is healed at the foot of the C...

http://www3.niu.edu/~td0raf1/radicalunionism/unemployed.htm Worth reading and thinking about....if there are holes, the Marxists will fill...

Well, Dear Readers, I am in Chicago, Illinois. Nice to see colored leaves and trees. Do not ask me why I am here, as I do not know yet. ...

http://www.realclearreligion.org/articles/2013/11/06/the_end_of_religious_liberty.html

Today, I briefly met a monk-priest from Mt. Athos. He gave me a prayer bracelet, called the  Komboskini   Mine does not have a cross. B...

There will be hardly any countries left in the western world by the end of this year which will not allow ssm. These trends have not happene...

Autumn and a Lady in Malta There are no falling leaves here Desert plants do not acknowledge Autumn nor reveal the pains of Mel...

Take time to read all my Gramsci and Marxism posts. These will help you understand what is happening in America and in Europe-the underminin...

Two weeks ago, I finally found out what was biting my legs. I have taken walks on the Sliema Promenade and stopped to say the rosary there...

...you are not getting news.

Senate passes gay discrimination bill.

http://new.livestream.com/churchmilitanttv/events/2504158