August 27, 1776: Battle of Long Island
The beginning of a cascade of defeats 250 years ago that had the American Revolution on life support by December. The year in…
Saint of the Day Quote: Saint Monica
There is no place that is far from God. Saint Monica
That Would Be During the Particular Judgment
News that I missed, courtesy of The Babylon Bee: ETERNITY — According to heavenly sources, the newly deceased who enter into the Lord’s rest…
Coyote v. Acme
Seeing this with my Bride and our son on Satuday. I suspect that the lawyers in the family might be laughing at the…
Saint of the Day Quote: Blessed Thomas Percy
“I am a Percy in life and in death.” Said just prior to his execution, after he scornfully rejected an offer to abjure his…
Pride of Peoria
(I originally wrote this post on December 18, 2008. Time to dust it off in light of Sheen’s beatification date coming up of September…
Hmmm
Let us pray that Putin is not planning to add to a losing war in Ukraine with a lashing out against NATO. I…
Saint of the Day Quote: Saint Louis King of France
Become not fainthearted, in adversity. Become not elevated, in the days of prosperity. Saint Louis King of France
Open Thread
Justice delayed seventeen years. No one has been punished, so far as I know, for pushing this murderous incompetent up the ranks for…
August 25, 2026: Feast Day of the Crusader King
Louis IX appeared to be a prince destined to reform Europe, if she could have been reformed, to render France triumphant and…
Saint of the Day Quote: Saint Jane Antide Thouret
God asks us to do what we can, and to leave the rest to Him. Saint Jane Antide Thouret
Preaching Nothing but Christ and Him Crucified is so Harsh
News that I missed, courtesy of The Babylon Bee: JERUSALEM — Apostolic sources report that the Apostle Paul was called into the head office…
Our Hemisphere
From Theodore Roosevelt’ s 1904 annual message to Congress: The steady aim of this Nation, as of all enlightened nations, should…
Burn of the Day
Remember when the query “Is the Pope Catholic?” was purely rhetorical?
Saint of the Day Quote: Saint Rose of Lima
Apart from the cross, there is no other ladder by which we may get to heaven. Saint Rose of Lima
LeoWatch: Rupnik
The ongoing protection of Rupnik is only one manifestation of the mania of Pope Leo to have Pope Francis be a permanent incubus on…
Burn of the Day
Evidence, if any is needed, that the Left in our time is absolutely bonkers.
August 23, 1865: Lincoln, Argentina
Americans traveling through Argentina are sometimes surprised when they come across the town of Lincoln. Founded in 1871, the name of the town was the…
HAURIETIS AQUAS
ENCYCLICAL OF POPE PIUS XII HAURIETIS AQUAS ON DEVOTION TO THE SACRED HEART May 15, 1956 Venerable Brethren: Health and Apostolic Benediction. “You…
Saint of the Day Quote: Saint John Kemble
According to the course of nature, I have but a few years to live. It will be an advantage to suffer for my religion…
Overture to El Cid
Something for the weekend. Overture to El Cid (1961) Bonus:
Saint of the Day Quote: Pope Saint Pius X
Truly we are passing through disastrous times, when we may well make our own the lamentation of the Prophet: ‘There is no…
Watching Movies With Dad
Shane: Yeah, you’ve lived too long. Your kind of days are over. Ryker: My days! What about yours, gunfighter? Shane: The difference is…
So Are the Days of Our Lives
I have a framed print of this painting up in my law library, but I didn’t know the back story until now. I always…
It Wasn’t Just the Men Who Were Iron Men in Pioneer Days
Western Wagons They went with axe and rifle, when the trail was still to blaze, They went with wife and children, in…
Saint of the Day Quote: Saint Bernard of Clairvaux
There are those who seek knowledge for the sake of knowledge; that is Curiosity. There are those who seek knowledge to be known by…
LeoWatch: A Flat Failure
Go here to read more on the Pope’s remarks. As an American, he has to know what a tedious mess, bad hymns preserved in…
Reichstag Fire
The J6 debacle was used to attempt to crush any opposition to the Democrat party for many years. It was a trap and President…
Saint of the Day Quote: Blessed Emily Bicchieri
I am not alone, my sisters; see, I bring Jesus to bless you. Blessed Emily Bicchieri
Remember Him
We will all die happy if we meet death with a fraction of his faith, courage and hope. Viva Cristo Rey!
Open Thread
Nice idealized version, with all three of our kids little again. On my very best days, perhaps, within shouting distance of reality. On others,…
Insanity Never Looked Sweeter
Of course that is assuming that Dowd is insane. At the end of the film it is implied that Harvey is real. Jimmy Stewart…
Saint of the Day Quote: Saint Helena
With faith, let us seek the Cross of Christ, for in it is our salvation. Saint Helena, mother of the Emperor Constantine, who found…
