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The Legion needs to be destroyed bolt by bolt, piece by piece, until there is nothing left of this Maciel-glorifying robot. Machines don’t do what you want them to do. They do what they are designed to do. The Legion is a machine built by a monster of demonic evil to a) facilitate his crimes…
I like the real Therese much better than the de-humanized one presented by her editors and improvers.
He writes:I’ll try to keep what is a long story for me a short one for you. I was baptized, had first confession, first communion, confirmation and was raised Catholic in that weddings, funerals, Christmas and Easter sort of way many people are. Over the years I began questioning everything and I converted to eastern…
It’s no secret that I’m a big Tolkien fan. Not only are his works fantastic literature, they are also rich with Catholic motifs that inspire one to fight for what is good and true in the face of growing darkness. Then there’s the films. While I’m highly disappointed with the new Hobbit movies, I think the Lord of…
Vandals attack the famous Bicycle Tree on Vashon IslandSome kid left his bike on the tree in 1954 and it became one with the plant as the years rolled on.Yr Obdt Svt and the Bicycle in happier times:
This truism, that almost sums up everything you need to know about Catholic Social Teaching, is grasped by The Quartermaster of the Barque, and gives me an excuse posting this essay by Chesterton (and I need little excuse for posting Chesterton):THE DRIFT FROM DOMESTICITYIN the matter of reforming things, as distinct from deforming them, there…
A reader writes:Hi! I hope that you are well and that you had a very nice birthday. As you have been consistently covering on your blog, the situation for Iraqi’s religious minorities and refugees is getting worse, and it seems like nothing is being done about itThere is a very good reason why more people…
You may remember his blog, A Saintly Salmagundi. Now he’s got a brand new groove.
…and it taught him something about love.
In the ongoing metamorphoses of the Thing that Used to be Conservatism into a social movement that manages to get almost everything wrong, here is one of its Shapers of “Thought” hoping against hope that America would just grab the One Ring, and transform itself into a mass-murdering Communist despotism (and the one with more blood…