Sunday, October 29, 2023

The Return of the Bond Vigilantes

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The bond market is sending a message to Washington; get your act together.  It looks like Wall Street is no longer willing to look the other...
Wednesday, October 25, 2023

Casual state dinners?

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The US hosted the Prime Minister of Australia at a state dinner last night and President Biden showed up dressed like an undertaker. You wou...

The GOP: Is it time for a divorce?

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End of an era: It’s time for the Republicans to break up
Monday, October 23, 2023

A reflection on the Roman Catholic Church’s liturgical reforms in an ecumenical perspective

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“Where to look for genuine ecumenism?” An Eastern Orthodox Perspective This is excellent. (HT: Dr Tighe)
Sunday, October 22, 2023

What is the difference between Roman Catholicism and liberal Protestantism?

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At the rate things are going, I'd say about ten years . This needs to be said plainly; what Francis has unleashed in the Catholic Church...

Some good news

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Communion restored between Antioch and Jerusalem
Saturday, October 21, 2023

Quote of the day

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“ He is unquestionably mentally unstable, and he is racist, bigoted, misogynistic, xenophobic, vulgar and prone to violence. There is simply...
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Friday, October 20, 2023

Bibi Netanyahu

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According to a new poll roughly 80% of Israelis hold Benajamin Netanyahu responsible for the pogrom of October 7 and the deaths of more than...
Monday, October 16, 2023

On forgiveness and the state

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In times past, kings wielded the power of life and death in God's name. But with that terrible power came the duty to exercise not only ...
Sunday, October 15, 2023

Israel

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Whatever Israel's sins, and there are many, they cannot excuse this butchery. This was a modern-day pogrom and should be so labeled. Ham...
Saturday, October 14, 2023

Putin arrests Alexei Navalny's lawyers

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Fascist dictators doing what dictators do. A reminder that freedom is under attack all over the world, not just in Israel. 
Sunday, October 08, 2023

The House GOP Is a Failed State

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...McCarthy’s ouster is dramatic evidence, if redundant, about the state of the modern GOP. A party that used to have an instinctual orienta...
Wednesday, October 04, 2023

Two on the Catholic's Big Synod

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‘The assumption must be faced that Pope Francis is consciously breaking with the Church’s tradition’ Never a Dull Moment HT: Dr. Tighe FTR I...
Tuesday, October 03, 2023

Video of ultra-Orthodox Jews Spitting at Christians Sparks Controversy

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A video of ultra-Orthodox Jews spitting on the ground beside a procession of foreign Christian worshippers carrying a wooden cross in the ho...

Pope Francis Hints at Homosexual "Blessings" and Openness to Female Ordination

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The crisis in the Catholic Church is obviously accelerating at an alarming rate. The mainstream press/media are almost giddy at the revoluti...
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Tuesday, September 26, 2023

Thousands of Armenian Christians flee Azerbaijan rule

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Thousands of Armenian Christians have fled their ancestral homeland in the region of Nagorno-Karabakh over the weekend and more are expected...

James II/VII

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Sunday, September 24, 2023

ABC News/Washington Post Poll Gives Trump Big Lead Over Biden

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Both ABC and the Post moved quickly to cast doubt on their own poll . 

In mass protest, some British police are refusing to carry firearms.

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Most UK police do not carry lethal weapons. This is a longstanding national tradition that enjoys widespread support both from the public a...

China Continues Aggressive Militarization of South China Sea Alarming Neighbors

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...The world’s most brazen maritime militarization is gaining muscle in waters through which one-third of global ocean trade passes. Here, o...