Rerum Novarum

Points to Ponder: I can relate to so much of this and have for quite some time. But 2020 sharpened my perceptions if you will. Without furth...

Four Questions For Distributist/Distributivist Apologists... This is the text of an unfinished Facebook note primarily composed on April 1...

My mother in law Raffaelina Barone passed away a year ago this evening. If those who read these words would say a prayer for her and her fam...

Points to Ponder:   (Circa  January 9, 2007 ) He who tells the people revolutionary legends, he who amuses them with sensational stories, is...

They worship cigars at a historic Tampa church building

Points to Ponder: We shall soon be in a world in which a man may be howled down for saying that two and two make four, in which people will ...

As today is Easter Sunday{1}, it seems fitting to revisit some material posted to this site last year. It was originally composed for a Face...

Points to Ponder: It has been years since I had a truly bad Lent --last year was not great but all things considered was not bad. I found my...

On NFP... This is the text of an unpublished Facebook Note From March 31, 2014. My words will be in regular font. And no I am not adding...

Points to Ponder: In John 3, when John the Baptist is asked whether Jesus is the Messiah, John says quite clearly that Jesus is the importan...

The following was an interesting comment from Facebook on the subject of the word perfidious in light of some self-styled traditionalists w...

Proposed Good Friday Prayer For The Perfidious Apologists: Though to be fair, this is only aimed at certain radical apologist reactionary s...

Points to Ponder: [ O]ne who strives to ascend to the highest place must needs rise by steps or paces, and not by leaps. [St. Gregory the Gr...

Life After Death: Blow Me.

Points to Ponder: A fool's mouth is his ruin, and his lips are a snare to his soul. [Proverbs xviii,7]

Grassley to DoJ: Why has no one been charged with crimes over false Kavanaugh allegations?

Quite disappointed Am I with my Lent this year Need to do better

Points to Ponder: Can the liberties of a nation be thought secure, when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of ...

Thermopylae Honour to those who in their lives are committed and guard their Thermopylae. Never stirring from duty; just and upright in all ...

Points to Ponder: Cigars bridge all kinds of gaps, ideological, political…they promote harmony and a feeling of getting along. [Rush Limbaug...