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Category Archives: The future and our choices
Pres. Obama declared 16 January “Religious Freedom Day”?!?
I saw at the blog of Syte Reitz in an entry labelled “The Deceiver” that – I am not making this up – Pres. Obama had declared Thursday 16 January to be “Religious Freedom Day”. Religious Freedom Day? It takes some … Read More
DEVELOPING: U.N. panel with Holy See officials on clerical abuse cases
This is a developing story. In Geneva, there was a U.N. panel with representatives of the Holy See concerning clerical sexual abuse of children. From what I can tell, this seems to have been a bit of a kangaroo court, … Read More
California: 1st grade girl punished for mentioning Bible verse
With a tip of the biretta to my pal Vicki McKenna (Twitter), I share this tale of woe from FNC. Todd Starnes reports: First-grader told to stop talking about Bible The parents of a 6-year-old girl said their daughter was … Read More
USA no longer in the world’s top 10
We all want a certain level of economic prosperity, which also is the only bridge for the poor out of poverty. To have economic prosperity, we have to have a basic level of rule of law. There must be some … Read More
Posted in The Coming Storm, The Drill, The future and our choices
Tagged debt, economic freedom, free markets, government regulation, taxes
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¡Vaya lío! Flash ‘Mass Mobs’ help struggling parishes.
From the Buffalo News: ‘Mass Mob’ breathes life into Catholic church [Nice of them to demote the Church to ‘church’, no?] Sam Kolodziej Jr. had a few more people than normal in his pew on Sunday morning. In fact, there … Read More
“immensely complex… huge ramifications… major reverberations…”
The Holy Father baptized the baby of a couple who are only civilly married. ¡Vaya lío! From the excellent Canon Law blog of Ed Peters… who is probably smart not to have an open combox. Or .. maybe he just … Read More
Archbp. Cordileone establishes “Benedict XVI Institute for Sacred Music and Divine Worship”
For your Brick by Brick file, I was sent a link to an entry at Catholic San Francisco about a new liturgical institute established by Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone. Archbishop explains goal of new liturgical institute On the eve of the … Read More
Numbers down in England and Wales
A depressing bit of news from not-too-Catholic-friendly RNS: Roman Catholics decline in England, Wales CANTERBURY, England (RNS) The number of Roman Catholic adherents in England and Wales fell by more than 90,000 in 2012, despite a wave of immigrants from … Read More
Posted in Hard-Identity Catholicism, The Coming Storm, The Drill, The future and our choices
Tagged England, Wales
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Jamie Stiehm the anti-Catholic bigot columnist v. Justice Sotomayor, Little Sisters, Bishops… Catholics…
US News and Word Report went off the deep end long ago. But this is a new low. They picked up a syndicated Creators Syndicate column by anti-Catholic bigot Jamie Steihm. They posted a piece which is amazing in the sheer … Read More
