Over half a century with no Earthly justice done. Here is Ted Kennedy’s non-mea culpa, notable for how little of the details of the incident he could recall, and an example of how to appear to take responsibility while not taking responsibility. Kennedy was helped by all this occurring while the attention of the nation […]
My Bride and I and our son saw Young Washington (2026) yesterday. We all loved the film and I strongly recommend it. It is a very good movie and true to history. Full review to follow when I have time. In the meantime, here is a decent review by Ben Shapiro.
I go to the Lord as one who has not yet begun to serve Him. Said by Saint Pambo to his monks as he lay dying at age 70 after a lifetime of service to God.
Something for the weekend. Dolly Parton singing a variant of The Ballad of the Green Berets (1966). Bonus:
Contemporary education, with honorable exceptions, has little to do with education. The usual Open Thread rules apply: be concise, be charitable and, above all, be amusing!
You exist in this world to give and to serve. Saint Charbel
Now reigneth pride in prize and covetousness is held wise, and lechery without shame and gluttony without blame. Envy reigneth with treason and sloth is taken in great season. God do boot, for now is time. Amen. John Ball, Priest and one the leaders of the Peasants Revolt Medieval Europe rested upon the work of […]
Fifty-six years ago Apollo XI was traveling 5000 miles per hour on its journey to the Moon, the gravity of the Earth gradually slowing the velocity of the spacecraft from the initial 25,000 miles per hour. The total distance of the trip, one way, was 238, 900 miles. Columbia’s engines were fired for about three […]
I want to teach the young and to inspire them with the love of God and liking for work. I want to help the poor and relieve them of some of their misery. These are the things I want to do. Saint Mary Magdalen Postel
However he is not a devotee of the traditional Mass, so all is well in the eyes of the Vatican. Go here for some background on the award he was given.
HE was descended of a good family in Kent. From his infancy he turned all his thoughts and affections to attain to the most perfect love of God, and studied to devote all his moments to this glorious pursuit. In this earnest desire, in the twelfth year of his age, he retired into […]
Any old woman can love God better than a doctor of theology can. Saint Bonaventure
Georgia was the last of the former Confederate States to be readmitted to the Union. Congress refused to sit Georgia representatives or senators in Congress in 1869 due to the action of the Georgia legislature in expelling black members of that body. This was followed by an attack by a white mob in the town […]
I support this, but I predict that if it becomes law it will be quickly reversed. Kids will be walking to school in darkness and that will cause an avalanche of stories about how unsafe this all is. Happened before in the seventies, in 1973-1974 when I was a junior in high school, and […]
Music and silence—how I detest them both! How thankful we should be that ever since our Father entered Hell—though longer ago than humans, reckoning in light years, could express—no square inch of infernal space and no moment of infernal time has been surrendered to either of those abominable forces, but all has been occupied by […]
“Mother, look at this cross; oh! how beautiful it is! It has been my whole happiness during my life, and I advise you also to make it yours.” Saint Kateri Tekakwitha
Go here to read the article. A favorite author of my Bride. She has read some of her works in the original Norwegian.
Attacking a politician for not having his nose in the trough is a new one on me, and I frequently disagreed with the late Senator Graham.
The three best scenes from Casablanca. Shocked! Shocked! Round up the usual suspects.
I recall when I was a kid that some of the older priests I quietly observed, seemed distinctly less than enthusiastic about Vatican II. They rarely spoke out, but they did not reflect the rah-rah official tone about Vatican II. Of course we were being taught Catechism by reading the Baltimore Catechism, and I could […]
Amazing, and very troubling, that we still know almost nothing about the motivation of the would be assassin, who came within a fraction of an inch of altering American history.
I shall remain always with you and I shall never abandon you! Sain by Saint Clelia Barbieri to her fellow sisters as she was dying at age 23 in 1870. Since that time her voice has been heard during Scriptural readings and hymns at Masses, in houses of the Order she founded, Little Sisters […]
News that I missed, courtesy of The Babylon Bee: BIRMINGHAM, AL — Local man Brett Callahan informed his wife that he wouldn’t be able to mow the lawn today as he was completely tied up playing a lawn-mowing simulator. Despite his wife’s pleas that the grass was now taller than their toddler, who had been […]
The US in the past ten years has grown its economy to be a third larger than the economy of the European Union, and the richest country in the European Union, Germany, has a gross domestic product per capita slightly less than Mississippi, the poorest State in the US. That the average America is […]
Jesus loved everyone. He created each and every person in love. He loved and always will love everyone. His love, the love of God, keeps each person in existence every moment of their lives from now until forever. His love was limitless, divine. It was the kind of love that could not be any greater: […]
“I cannot refuse what you ask in Christ’s name. I grant you your life, and I give you my friendship. Pray that God may forgive me my sin.” Said by Saint John Gaulbert to his brother’s murderer, a man whom the Saint had pledged to kill, and who was now pleading for mercy.
