Donald R. McClarey

Saint of the Day Quote: Saint Edith of Polesworth

Early England can be proud of having around forty holy abbesses, most of whom were of royal origin. One of them is St. Edith (also Editha, Eadgyth) who became Abbess of Polesworth in central England. One of the earliest testimonies

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PopeWatch: Italian Healthcare

Italy’s socialized health care system struggles along multiple dimensions, ranking third-to-last in the World Index of Healthcare Innovation, with a score of 37.29 (#29). While Italy’s fiscal crisis is well known, Italy ranked 19th in Fiscal Sustainability with a score

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Regime Police

The Left always charges the Right with what the Left is in the process of doing.  All authoritarian regimes need a Praetorian Guard/Stasi.

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Donald R. McClarey

Trump: Miss Me Yet? A Continuing Series-112

The RNC-led Republican majority in Georgia refused to do their constitutionally delegated duty to protect against a corrupted, irredeemably compromised election because the RNC didn’t support the truth. And now the truth is coming out. pic.twitter.com/LNvN6PhXN9 — Jenna Ellis (@JennaEllisEsq)

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Big Man

  Broadcast on February 5, 1968 the message of the episode, Goober Goes to an Auto Show, has always stayed with me: Goober goes to Raleigh with Andy, Opie and Aunt Bee to visit the auto show. While there, he

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Donald R. McClarey

The Science is Settled

Leonard Nimoy on global cooling 🥶 pic.twitter.com/RYkqpcv3MU — wilder (@wilderfortruth) July 12, 2021 Well, at least the global coolist alarmists of half a century ago could plausibly argue that we still were in an interstitial glacial period.  The global warming

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Saint of the Day Quote: Saint Procopius of Sazava

Saint Procopius of Sázava (died March 25, 1053) was a Bohemian canon and hermit, canonized as a saint of the Roman Catholic church in 1204. Little about his life is known with certainty. According to hagiographical tradition, he was born

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Donald R. McClarey

PopeWatch: Coalition For Canceled Priests

Father Z gives us the news: Go here to read the rest.  These days if a priest isn’t irritating his Bishop for the sake of orthodoxy, he either is blessed with a very good Bishop, or the priest needs to

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Donald R. McClarey

Socialism Explained

More images out of cuba! I won’t stop posting, patria y vida. #PatriaYVida #CubaSOS #Cuba pic.twitter.com/2mxV7hlCaP — daylin dulzaides (@DaylinDulzaides) July 13, 2021     News that I missed, courtesy of The Babylon Bee: MIAMI, FL—While on his way to

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In The Navy

  You can hear millions of swab jockies turning over in their graves: The official findings, considered a nonpartisan exercise of congressional oversight, discovered that the Navy’s surface warfare forces have systemic training and leadership issues, including an intense focus

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Donald R. McClarey

Our Oldest Adversary

Even in his old age the should-be-Blessed Sheen still had an acute mind and rare spiritual insight.  His talk above on the Devil is chillingly relevant to our time.   Man is always quite competent at doing evil himself, but we

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Donald R. McClarey

Forgiveness: A Hard Christian Virtue

Dave Griffey at Daffey Thoughts notes that the Catholic Left is not big on forgiveness:   Courtesy of the New Prolife Catholic movement.  So apparently Rebecca Bratten Weiss posted this on her Twitter feed:   Wow.  There was a time

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Donald R. McClarey

Saint of the Day Quote: Saint Myrope

The Holy Martyr Myrope was born in the city of Ephesus at the beginning of the third century. She lost her father at an early age, and her mother raised her in the Christian Faith. Saint Myrope frequently visited the

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PopeWatch: Free

“A health service that is free and guarantees good service accessible to all … This precious good should not be lost. It must be maintained and everyone should be committed to this. Because everyone needs it …,” he said.  Pope

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Donald R. McClarey

Communism: Next Time For Sure

News that I missed, courtesy of The Babylon Bee: U.S.—According to sources, several prominent leftists are expressing worry that Communism failing every time it’s tried could be making Communism look bad. “This is a real problem,” said Dr. Petri Smirnoff,

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Donald R. McClarey

Thought For the Day

Cubans carrying a statue of the Blessed Mother held high as they protest against the communist regime 🙏🏻✝️ pic.twitter.com/oZpNSTxsQC — Jack Posobiec 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) July 12, 2021

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Unexpectedly

Every now and then people need to be reminded:  So this is why my old man always said that he would sooner chew his right arm off than vote for a Democrat.

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Burn Witch, Burn!

News that I missed, courtesy of The Babylon Bee: PODUNK, KS—Vice President Kamala Harris caused quite a stir while trying to help rural Americans vote. She traveled to some of the most backwater areas of America — thousands of miles

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Donald R. McClarey

The Horror, The Horror

I was at a closing last Friday.  The Buyers told me that they knew no one in Dwight.  I told them by this time next year they would know everyone in Dwight.  Only a slight exaggeration.

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Trump: Miss Me Yet? A Continuing Series-111

Kamala Harris absurdly says it’s “almost impossible” for rural Americans to photocopy their ID pic.twitter.com/J94IuGBFLv — RNC Research (@RNCResearch) July 10, 2021 Waal, I live in rural Illinois.  Amazing what we have now:  copiers, faxes, cell phones that take pictures

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Saint of the Day Quote: Blessed David Gonson

A Knight of Malta who joined the Order on Malta in 1553. He returned to England in 1540 and was soon arrested on a charge of treason. The writ against him claimed that in Malta “He denied that King Henry

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PopeWatch: Father Jims

Father James Altman, a fearless voice for orthodoxy, is removed from his parish by his Bishop.  The heterodox Father James Martin is embraced by the Pope.  Those wondering why the Church is in such a mess have their answer:  the

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Donald R. McClarey

Thought For the Day

Ramos Clemente, a would-be god in dungarees, strangled by an illusion, that will-o’-the-wisp mirage that dangles from the sky in front of the eyes of all ambitious men, all tyrants—and any resemblance to tyrants living or dead is hardly coincidental,

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Donald R. McClarey

Cuba Libre?

  Please God.  Massive demonstrations have broken out throughout Cuba today: Thousands of people took to the streets at several locations in Cuba including the capital Havana on Sunday to call for the end of the decades-old dictatorship and to

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Donald R. McClarey

Saint of the Day Quote: Pope Saint Pius I

ACCORDING to the pontificals, he was the son of one Rufinus, and a native of Aquileia. He had served the church among the clergy at Rome many years under Adrian and Antoninus Pius, 1 when, according to Tillemont, in the

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He is Right

  Tucker Carlson Reading @martyrmade's Viral Thread On Why So Many Trump Supporters Have Questions About The 2020 Election & Their Distrust Of The Mainstream Media pic.twitter.com/HY6MECgd3s — The Columbia Bugle 🇺🇸 (@ColumbiaBugle) July 10, 2021   I think I’ve

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Bystanders Save the Day

Bystanders at the Cherry Festival in Traverse City, Michigan rushed over to stop a carnival ride from tipping over https://t.co/OeE4sASyF6 pic.twitter.com/ulLbxgQNRB — philip lewis (@Phil_Lewis_) July 10, 2021   There is a lot of good in this world.

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