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The New York Times ran a December 12 feature whose thesis is depressingly simple: American elementary and secondary students no longer read full-length books. The title says it all: “Kids Rarely Read Whole Books Anymore. Even in English Class.” “Rarely” now means perhaps one or two books a year—four at most. And even those few…
Jimmy Lai, the Catholic Hong Kong media tycoon and outspoken critic of Beijing, has just been convicted in what many observers are calling a “show trial” under China’s sweeping National Security Law. The trial of the 78-year-old Lai, which was conducted without a jury and overseen by three government‑appointed judges, ended with guilty verdicts on…
Part I: My Soul was Crushed by the Matrix… and then I took over OnePeterFive Part II: Disembodied Antichrist Community: Good out of Evil? So because of the internet, I met someone who made me Catholic. After that, I pretty much unplugged from Skynet, aka, the virtual reality known as the “world wide web.” I…
Today marks the 250th anniversary of the birth of Jane Austen. To some, she is a fluffy authoress of “chick lit”; to others, she is a crypto-feminist and subtle provocateur of conventional (read “traditional”) stereotypes. To me, she is neither. She is simply a brilliant, witty, and extremely insightful writer whose novels expose human foibles…
In 2017, I became fiercely interested in the subject of UFOs or UAP (Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena). This began for me with a New York Times article revealing Pentagon videos of an encounter between U.S. Navy jets on a training exercise and an anomalous object off the coast of San Diego. Initially, my thought was that…
The calendar year draws onward to its end even as we Christians find ourselves already living the new liturgical year. Time is not the same in the City of God as it is in the city of man. We below, angelically aided, strive after Christ, who holds the secret of time and eternity and draws…
On November 26, 2014, a post was made on what was then Twitter by the user @dril (one of the individuals at the forefront of what was affectionately referred to as “weird Twitter”): “my big sons have made a mess of the garage again after being riled up by the good word of the Lord.”…
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Above: The Immaculate Conception by Francisco Rizi (1614–1685) ℣. Grant, Lord, a blessing. Benediction. May God the Father Omnipotent, be to us merciful and clement. ℟. Amen. Reading 4 From the Dogmatic Bull of Pope Pius IX. From of old time continual prayers have been offered to this Apostolic See not only by Bishops, Churchmen,…
Editor’s note: the Oath against Bad Movies was taken by Catholics on Sunday within the Octave of the Immaculate Conception as part of the Confraternity known in America as the “Legion of Decency.” This and other similar confraternities arose after the 1920s attempt by Hollywood to impose evil images (euphemism: “p-rnography”) on the public in…
