Saint of the Day Quote: Saint Simon the Zealot
11 Who also said: Ye men of Galilee, why stand you looking up to heaven? This Jesus who is taken up from you into heaven,…
LeoWatch: Urban II
Presumably the Pope also rejects the Holy Wars that God commanded Israel to fight in the Old Testament. We live in the age of…
Burn of the Day
Must our hapless bench of bishops continually work overtime to make the Church in this country appear to be just another insane Leftist NGO?
History Rhymes
Rigging an election and trying to toss the losing candidate into prison on trumped up charges sounds very familiar to American ears. …
Happy Birthday Colonel!
With the first Roosevelt to occupy the oval office, America strode onto the world stage. From building the Panama Canal, resolving the Russo-Japanese…
Saint of the Day Quote: Saint Elesbaan
In Ethiopia, St. Elesbaan, king, who, after having defeated the enemies of Christ and sent his royal diadem to Jerusalem, in the time of…
LeoWatch: The Pope’s Man in Chicago
Cupich is beyond retirement age. The Pope could remove him at any time. I assume he keeps him in place because he approves of…
Bad Marriages Are A Gift From Satan
My Bride and I have been married for 44 years and three kids. We have known triumph, disaster, great joys and great tears,…
Our Southwest Misadventure
A guest post by my Bride on our trip on the Southwest Chief: Hail to the (Southwest) Chief! Not this Chief, though. This is…
And Many Happy Returns!
Frank Sinatra said it with more conviction:
Blind Guides
I do wonder at times if most bishops believe in anything other than their careers. In my more cynical moments I know that…
Requiescat in Pace: Walter Koenig
Too sad. Walter Koenig has passed away at age 90. He will be always best known for his role as Ensign Chekov on…
This Never Gets Old
Whatever else he does, Trump deserves everlasting thanks to putting paid to that witch’s political ambitions.
Saint of the Day Quote: Saint Cuthbert of Canterbury
[A]ll the most sacred Festivals of Our Lord made Man, in all things pertaining to the same, viz.: in the Office of Baptism, the…
LeoWatch: Leftist Cranks Cosplaying as “Nuns”
Pope Leo has demonstrated an alarming, if unsurprising, taste of raising women associated with dying Leftist female religious orders to positions of power in…
Ordinary Lunacy
Saint Cardinal Newman dealt with this type of utter folly in his day: NOW I am to speak of the Vatican definition,…
October 26, 1921: Warren G. Harding Speaks About Race in Birmingham, Alabama
Americans have a pleasing illusion that politics was at one time a pristine pursuit in the land of the free and the home…
Open Thread: I’m Back!
Most vacations I have taken in my life have been a pleasure, and in the case of a few it has been a…
The Girl Who Reversed Agincourt
Joan was a being so uplifted from the ordinary run of mankind that she finds no equal in a thousand years. She embodied…
Saint of the Day Quote: Saint Ambrose Edward Barlow
Let them fear that have anything to lose which they are unwilling to part with. Saint Ambrose Edward Barlow
Henry V, Shakespeare and Just War
Six hundred and eleven years ago Henry V and his army won an amazing victory over a French army that heavily outnumbered his. Shakespeare…
611 Years Since Agincourt
We are in God’s hand, brother, not in theirs. King Henry V The anniversary of the long ago battle of Saint Crispin’s Day…
Saint of the Day Quote: Saint Anthony Mary Claret
For me to die is a gain. To die, murdered by the haters of Jesus Christ, would be my gain. Saint Anthony…
Albuquerque
Something for the weekend. Glen Campbell singing the song Albuquerque. My Bride and I are returning home today after a train trip to…
St. John Paul II and Science;
What the AI Debate Needs Now.
A Word Before (2026) Yesterday, 22 October, was the feast of St. John Paul II, the anniversary of his papal inauguration in 1978. It is…
October 23, 1935: A Mobster Cheats Satan
Come now, and let us reason together, said the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow;…
Saint of the Day Quote: Saint John of Capistrano
The Lord Who Made the Beginning Will Take Care of the Finish! Saint John of Capistrano
Decline and Fall
I think Gibbon would have approved, although he could be a bit prickly. I rather wish I could have been a fly on the…
Saint of the Day Quote: Blessed Alix Le Clercq
When I prayed to God, I always felt in my mind that I should make a new home for girls to practice all the…
Predicting the Future is Challenging
2000 is the year when I could first get McClarey Manor and the Law Mines hooked up to the internet, access to that technology…
Saint of the Day Quote: Blessed Giuseppe “Pino” Puglis
I’ve been expecting you. Blessed Giuseppe “Pino” Puglis said these words to Mafia hitman before they murdered him on his 56th birthday…
Southwest Chief
My Bride and I this week will be traveling on the Sowthwest Chief, an Amtrak train that goes from Chicago through the Southwest…
You Do Not Distrust Polling Enough
What a bad farce polling has become. Polling worked, barely, when almost all adults had a land line phone and almost all phone…
October 21, 1879: Thomas Edison Invents the Incandescent Light Bulb
“We will make electricity so cheap that only the rich will burn candles.” Thomas Edison, 1879 “ Ah, Thomas…
Saint of the Day Quote: Saint Bertilla Boscardin
We should never allow ourselves to be disturbed by things that are transitory and not eternal. Saint Bertilla Boscardin
Open Thread
The usual Open Thread rules apply: be concise, be charitable and, above all, be amusing!
