Random stuff I find interesting and you may not.
A legal battle over two statues in Quincy [Massachusetts] raises the question: Must the public square be secular? TWO 10-FOOT bronze statues — one of St. Michael the Archangel, the other of St. Florian — are locked away in a storage facility in Randolph, casualties of a legal theory that treats the public display of … Read more
Hundreds of Christians in China will likely spend Christmas in jail this year, according to a recent report. Starting on Dec. 13, the Chinese Communist Party mobilized “more than a thousand police officers, SWAT units, anti-riot forces, and firefighters” in the Zhejiang Province’s Yayang Town in Wenzhou City, raiding churches and conducting mass arrests of … Read more
Last month, Communist China launched its largest ever crackdown on Christians. The raids across Beijing, Shanghai and eight other cities mark the beginning of an escalation as the paranoid Xi regime sets out to suppress the growing number of Chinese Christians. While the Communist regime claims that the official number of Christians in China is … Read more
Beginning with the Obama administration, Muslims murdered over 125,000 Christians in Nigeria. This revelation in the latest report from the International Society for Civil Liberties and the Rule of Law documents a Christian genocide that has been taking place in Africa, enabled by Barack Obama and the State Department, and carried out with the complicity … Read more
Christians Fight To Survive: ISIS in Iraq | EWTN News Special Pagan terrorists “EWTN News documentary chronicles Iraq’s Christian history and ISIS impact“ Related PostsPope Leo XIV: Say This at Communion or Miss Heavenly Graces My suffering, united to Your own You always hear me Puff Pieces About Biden’s ‘Faith’ The Death of … Read more
Hindu leaders use WhatsApp to call for violence toward Christians on March 1. During President Trump’s recent meeting with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the conversation centered on trade and economic issues, leaving little room for a far more urgent crisis. In the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh, Hindu leaders have urged men to gather … Read more
“The unofficial anthem of secularism today is John Lennon’s ‘Imagine,’ in which we are encouraged to imagine a world without religion. We don’t have to imagine such a world; the 20th century has given us horrific examples of such worlds.” Cardinal Francis E. George, O.M.I. Cardinal George warns US secularization is more serious than elections … Read more
The Democrats’ presumptive presidential nominee seems downright antagonistic toward Catholic beliefs, institutions, and people. Now that Democratic elites have forced President Biden out of the presidential race and anointed Vice President Kamala Harris as their new candidate, it is worth reminding ourselves just how radical she is — especially when it comes to Catholics in … Read more
Islam, like the Left, promises to destroy a failed world built on oppression and lies, in order to save it. Behind the apocalyptic idealism is the same perversity that led Adam Gadahn to threaten that, “the streets of America shall run red with blood.” Was this rhetoric really all that different from the anarchists, the … Read more
In early October, the world watched in horror as Christian nationalists attacked Israel, killing over 1,400 innocent Israelis in one of the deadliest attacks in the country’s history. In the summer of 2020, the United States was devastated by widespread rioting and looting organized by radical MAGA Republicans in response to the weaponized and politicized … Read more
“F*** your prayers” is the official message of Ranjeev Puri, a leader in Michigan’s Democratic Party. After a horrific mass murder at Michigan State University, Puri, the majority whip in Michigan’s House of Representatives, took to Twitter to take aim at the real bad guys. “Today, we begin to collectively heal from the horrific events … Read more
Saint Stephen’s Feast has not changed much over the years. On the day after Christmas, we begin to celebrate our martyrs. From all over the world, we read that Christians are persecuted; especially in those countries most fashionable to the Left. In North America the prejudice is more genteel than murderous — it belongs to … Read more
When the Supreme Court found a constitutional right to same-sex marriage in 2015, then-president Obama said that there were “Americans of goodwill” on either side of the issue. He stated that opposition was, at least for some people, “based on sincere and deeply held beliefs.” And he emphasized the need to “revere our deep commitment … Read more
The Supreme Court has vindicated religious freedom time and time again in recent years. Faithful Catholics have good reason to celebrate. So why, then, is Helen Alvaré, one of the country’s greatest Catholic legal scholars, not satisfied? Professor Alvaré’s latest book, Religious Freedom After the Sexual Revolution: A Catholic Guide (256 pages; The Catholic University of America … Read more
Our task is not one of producing persuasive propaganda; Christianity shows its greatness when it is hated by the world. St. Ignatius of Antioch Morning Offering Related PostsA Colorado nurse who saved a mother’s baby now fights to keep her medical license Fear not Everything You Need to Know about Bureaucracy, in a Single Tweet … Read more
While the UK braces itself for what the governor of the Bank of England recently described as “economic apocalypse”, spare a thought for Nigeria. The country is home to 20 per cent of Africa’s entire population, and it now accounts for about 14 per cent of the world’s poor. Plagued by crime and corruption, almost … Read more
The Left’s denizens of moral relativism are targeting Catholic Churches. Some claim this is a recent development. History teaches otherwise. Per Catholic Vote: “Since 2020, there have been at least 140 attacks against Catholic churches in the United States, including thefts of sacred tabernacles, fires which severely damaged historic churches, spray-painting and graffiti, windows smashed, … Read more
And guess who the primary hater is? Hate crimes against Christianity and its followers in Europe — formerly and for centuries the guardian and disseminator of Christ’s teachings — are at an all-time high. According to a recent report, at least a quarter of all hate crimes registered in Europe in 2020 were anti-Christian in … Read more
What to make of Christians embracing the U.N. and denying Christ? . . . Even so, since this is the century of illiterate pride (CIP), there seems to be a proliferation of Christians who think it reasonable that Catholic schools not be Catholic, or that Christians apologize for having spread the light of the Gospel … Read more
Following the atrocities of World War II, Europe’s leaders and great thinkers sought to wrestle away authority from governments, which had for too long tended towards tyranny, and place rights in the hands of the individual. The zeal in which legal philosophers promoted the very enlightenment ideas that culminated with the spilling of immense amounts … Read more
The US Conference of Catholic Bishops voted 168-55 to draft a document on “Eucharistic coherence.” A primary issue is whether or not pro-choice politicians can receive communion despite their fundamental disagreement with Rome. The debate gained steam with the election of President Biden, a Catholic who endorses abortion. Communicants are not supposed to participate in … Read more
Even in wars, there are standards. The United Nations defines “war crimes” as “violations of international humanitarian law (treaty or customary law) that incur individual criminal responsibility under international law.” By way of analogy, culture-war crimes constitute horrors done in the name of advancing some ideological agenda that would shock the conscience of any morally … Read more
In 1804, Thomas Jefferson wrote to the Ursuline Sisters to reassure them that the U.S. government would not violate their religious freedom. Allaying fears they had conveyed in a letter to him, Jefferson wrote that the “principles of the constitution and government of the United States” would permit the religious order to “govern itself according … Read more
The same media that never tired of questioning Christian support for Trump now rejoices in the corruption of Christianity under Biden. Christians who supported Trump had sold their souls for political gain, the media told us. Reporters churned out endless stories browbeating Christians for giving hypocritical support to that “coarse” libertine. But “progressive Christians” receive … Read more
Trying to live a righteous Catholic life can be an act of provocation and revolution in our contemporary culture. For our modern world objects to almost every facet and feature of a truly Catholic, Catholic lifestyle. And, with a mere moment’s reflection, this modern toxic reality and adversarial attitude to the moral and factual certainty … Read more