Wednesday, July 29, 2015

What Makes a Priest Rejoice at Confession

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What gives you joy when one person after another lines up to take confession? Not when you hear the confession that many call, “on duty”, ...
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Monday, July 27, 2015

On Park Avenue, a Picture of the Catholic Church Divided

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Here’s the broad outline: Our Saviour was a sleepy parish in the Murray Hill neighborhood of midtown Manhattan when Father George W. Rutler,...
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Saturday, July 25, 2015

Illinois Moves to Slash Welfare for the Dead

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As anyone paying any attention at all will be aware, Illinois is a fiscal train wreck, plagued by years of one party government (guess which...
Thursday, July 23, 2015

Fr. John Whiteford on Monarchy

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... So is monarchy superior to democracy? St. John of Kronstadt once observed "Hell is a democracy but heaven is a kingdom." Howe...
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Wednesday, July 22, 2015

The LCMS Calls a Post a Post

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If the role of religion in America today is to teach the faithful to bend over and kiss the ring of postmodernity and beg for forgiveness f...
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Monday, July 20, 2015

America the Great?

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...America has not yet become Babylon the Great, despite the recent legal ruling. But even if it does, so what? We can peek at the end of ...

Judge slams State Department over Hillary Clinton-related records

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A federal judge is lashing out at the State Department for delaying for years in providing responses to Associated Press Freedom of Informat...
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Saturday, July 18, 2015

On the Sacramental Nature of Marriage

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One of the obvious differences between the Orthodox and Western understanding of marriage is that in the West, marriage is what two people d...
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Friday, July 17, 2015

The Donald

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Donald Trump is a political chameleon and always has been. He will say whatever he thinks will score him points with whoever he is t...
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Feast of the Royal Martyrs of Russia

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Wednesday, July 15, 2015

New York City Council Moves To Decriminalize Urination In Public and Turnstile Jumping

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Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito (left) is moving forward with a controversial plan to decriminalize such offenses as urinating in publ...
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Man Says He Danced on Police Car's Roof to Summon Aid Against Vampires

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Details In a world where men are being encouraged to believe they are women, and to submit to surgical mutilation, who am I to judge?
Tuesday, July 14, 2015

How liberalism became an intolerant dogma

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At the risk of sounding like Paul Krugman — who returns to a handful of cherished topics over and over again in his New York Times column — ...
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Solzhenitsyn Mourned Bastille Day - So Should All Christians

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Tuesday, July 14 probably passes without much fanfare in your home, but the date, Bastille Day, marks the beginning of the greatest organize...

Firefox blocks Adobe Flash, the much-loathed, bug-plagued relic of a browser plugin

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Details . Thank God! That thing has been nothing but a giant pain in the @$$ for ages. Constant computer slowdowns and even outright free...
Monday, July 13, 2015

Pope Francis Calls for More Church Openness

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ASUNCIÓN, Paraguay— Pope Francis called for a more welcoming Catholic church, open even to those don’t accept its teachings, as he preached ...
Saturday, July 11, 2015

In Fiery Speeches, Francis Excoriates Global Capitalism

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ASUNCIÓN, Paraguay — His speeches can blend biblical fury with apocalyptic doom. Pope Francis does not just criticize the excesses of global...
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Friday, July 10, 2015

Lotteries, payday lending, and the swindling of America’s poor

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...But there is one set of related policy ideas that would dramatically help the poor and should not be ideologically divisive. How about a ...
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Revisiting Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's warnings to the West

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... According to Solzhenitsyn it was no coincidence that Soviet Russia shared certain common problems with the West, for he saw socialism ...
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Wednesday, July 08, 2015

Bill Cosby

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I don’t pay much attention to celebrities and their often bizarre lifestyles and politics (this criticism coming from an avowed monarchist,...
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