Category Archives: TEOTWAWKI

When the Global Killer Asteroid arrives, let’s do better than the Great Successor!

Posted on 12 April 2012 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

How are we going to get Bruce Willis up to 2011 AG5, that killer asteroid that’s heading our way?!?
Don’t ask North Korea’s Great Successor Kim Jong-un!
Whatever their next act is, Ladies and Gents, it’ll be a blast too.
I think I’ll watch … Continue reading →

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Vatican opposes UN promotion of unnatural “marriage”

Posted on 9 March 2012 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

The UN is trying to create a new category of human rights. We have been across this ground before (HERE and HERE).
That right, pushed by the UN, is freedom from discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender. Ostensibly, … Continue reading →

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“the risk of a despotism freed from every fetter”

Posted on 17 October 2011 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

The other day I stood at the place where King Henry VIII was born.  I recall the exhibit at the British Library a couple years back for the centenary of the coronation of that King.  On the way into the … Continue reading →

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Chilling: SCOTUS hears case touching on right of Churches to self-determination, “ministerial exception”, discrimination

Posted on 10 October 2011 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

From CWN:
In argument before the Supreme Court on an anti-discrimination case, the solicitor general—representing the Obama administration—said that the government would uphold the right of the Catholic Church to preserve an all-male priesthood, [NB:] but only “because the balance of … Continue reading →

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A reader’s story of an emergency room confession and advice to readers

Posted on 17 September 2011 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

From a reader:
Yesterday (Friday) and I was rushed to the E.R. with a possible aortic dissection. It turned out that it was just muscle pain. I asked for a Catholic priest, and, to my great fortune, my regular parish priest … Continue reading →

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The future and our choices

Posted on 4 September 2011 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

Here is an interesting story from The Mail Online:
Christian nurse ‘ordered to remove crucifix… at hospital where Muslims were allowed to wear headscarves’
By Luke Salkeld
A Christian nurse was ‘forced to choose between her job and her faith’ after being ordered … Continue reading →

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MUST READ: Young person’s account of harassment and violence at WYD

Posted on 21 August 2011 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

Nolite mirari fratres si odit vos mundus.
Wonder not, brethren, if the world hate you.
1 John 3:13
In Madrid during WYD the were no lack of twisted, benighted wing-nut protesters harrassing the pilgrims and young people.
One of the readers here has a … Continue reading →

Posted in Brick by Brick, Modern Martyrs, New Evangelization, Non Nobis and Te Deum, One Man & One Woman, Our Catholic Identity, TEOTWAWKI, The future and our choices, The Last Acceptable Prejudice, Throwing a Nutty | Tagged , , , , , , , , | 73 Comments

The Debt Crisis: Washington’s Kabuki Dance and “NO!” Play

Posted on 29 July 2011 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

The debt crisis is likened to a Washington Kabuki dance.
Oh yah?
Let’s just see if it is anything like.
In the first video below we have a kabuki presentation of the debt crisis.
President Obama appears, with aides, Daley and Carney (you have … Continue reading →

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A giant SPACE SNAKE is going to swallow the Earth! Wherein Fr. Z rants!

Posted on 27 July 2011 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

From Space Weather:
BIG SUNSPOTS: After more than a week of quiet, solar activity is picking up with the emergence of two large sunspot groups on the sun’s northeastern limb.  The active regions are crackling with C- and M-class solar flares.  … Continue reading →

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Do you have a plan?

Posted on 20 July 2011 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

This story from CNA brings something to mind, which I will get to after the article…
Jakarta, Indonesia, Jul 20, 2011 / 10:24 am (CNA).- Christian churches have moved quickly to help the more than 5,000 people who have fled the … Continue reading →

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