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With this and Common Core, your children will have no protection, no security, unless you as parents step in. http://www.politico.com/stor...

Off to a rare treat of morning rosary and Mass. Americans, have a peaceful and safe Memorial Day, and may God bless our veterans. Also, ...

Thanks to Wiki for photo Saw these today and the past few days: Eastern Meadowlark, Goldfinch, Turkey Vulture, Cooper's Hawk, Green...

There are hundreds of Red-winged Blackbirds here, but today, I distinctly saw a Yellow-winged Blackbird.  I have seen these befor...

There are now two kinds of Phoebes outside my window at this time. One is the Eastern Phoebe. There seems to be a male and female. Th...

to all who have birthdays on this wonderful feast day of May 26th.  SS. Philip Neri and Mariana are just two. I like to think of Philip Ne...

On Confession with no comment.. As regards ourselves, there is another motive: venial sin, though it does not of itself diminish cha...

The series on the predominant fault has received attention lately, so I am continuing posts on this theme. One of the things I must remind...

Many months ago, I wrote on the fact that egotism hinders the work of the virtues in the Church and weakens the Church. Here is one of the...

Wednesday, 20 February 2013 Part 39: Bede, Doctor of the Church and Perfection I am amazed that this is the thirty-ninth...

Wednesday, 20 February 2013 Doctors of the Church Series and Perfection: Bede the Venerable; Part 38 There are only two people ...

Wednesday, 20 February 2013 Part 37: DoC--St Bede the Venerable Two--The Beauty of Simplicity Posted by  Supertradmum I wan...

Wednesday, 20 February 2013 Part 36: Doctors of the Church-Anselm and the Illuminative State Before I finish St. Anselm, I must...

One of my readers asked me recently about the connection between malice and egoism. I think one reason why this question is in the mind of...

http://www.churchmilitant.tv/daily/?today=2014-05-23 Please take time to watch this. As one reader noted, there is some signs of this happ...

http://www.chinatopix.com/articles/2607/20140524/us-asylum-sudanese-christian-woman.htm http://www.zenit.org/en/articles/pope-s-homily-in-...

One of the most unfortunate trends in politics, both in America, and in Europe, is the growth of "tribal politics," a term used in...

A healthy Catholic is one who recognizes that he has gifts and talents from God (not from the self) and that God created him to do something...

In psychology, there is a part of the underdeveloped person who falls into the category of being narcissistic labelled "narcissistic aw...