ALEX writes:

Shall I say what the Church was when I was growing up in Chicago in the late ’50s?

Six a.m. mass said in the cold, dark of winter with one little old lady dressed in black occupying the back row.

Ringing the church bells for Mass and allowing the rope to carry you up 15 feet to the ceiling.

Christmas High Mass at midnight with hundreds of parishioners and many altar servers.

The doors to the church open late everyday so you could pray when it came on you. (more…)

THE CENTER for Medical Progress’ grisly tour de force continues with the tenth undercover video of Planned Parenthood personnel who admit to trafficking in the bodies of babies.

From Breitbart:

“We’ve just been working with people who want particular tissues, like, you know, they want cardiac, or they want eyes, or they want neural,” Dr. Carolyn Westhoff, Senior Medical Advisor for Planned Parenthood for America tells a hidden camera. “Certainly, everything we provide–oh, gonads! Oh my God, gonads. Everything we provide is fresh.”

But don’t hold your breath waiting for Planned Parenthood to be defunded or expect anyone to be charged with a crime. The organization continues to get millions in federal funds and the mainstream media continues to underplay the story. (more…)

THE ACTRESS Kim Cattrall says she’s a mother even though she has no children.

Cattrall is right that one can be maternal without having children, but she takes that idea too far. (more…)

IT SEEMS that the functions on my home page are not all working correctly so that it is no longer possible to access the previous pages. I am working on fixing it. For now, you should be able to access previous pages by putting dates in the search box or through the monthly archives function in the sidebar.

IN THIS recent interview, Ron Paul blames U.S. intervention in the Middle East for the "utter mess" we are now witnessing.

FROM VOCATIV: Every year, about more than 9.2 million people from around the world enter America’s Green Card lottery. If they are one of about 50,000 names picked at random, they get a free pass to legally resettle in the U.S. But there’s also another way to get the doors to the U.S. to open: cough up half-a-million dollars. And the Chinese are taking full advantage of it. More than 9,000 Chinese immigrants basically bought their way into America last year. Chinese citizens were issued roughly 40 times more investor visas (also known as EB-5 visas) than any other country. South Korea was second, with just 225 immigrant investor visas. Five countries — China, South Korea, Vietnam, China (Taiwan-born) and Mexico — accounted for a staggering 90 percent of all investor visas issued in 2014, according to the U.S. Department of State.

ALEX THOMAS writes:

Over the last few months there has been a tremendous amount of speculation and claims that portions of the mainstream media promoted Black Lives Matter movement are actively promoting and actually carrying out the killing of police officers throughout the country. (more…)

BRUCE B. writes in response to this previous post:

A common assertion by modern Christians (I saw a women claim this recently in an online Catholic discussion forum) is that God wants us “to be happy.” If I understand Christianity correctly, this is the wrong “H” word. God wants us to be holy. Being holy can and often does conflict with our happiness. Isn’t that what taking up our crosses means? So while God doesn’t literally want the opposite (for us to be unhappy), saying that God wants us to be (in an earthly sense) unhappy would be closer to the truth. (more…)

  ARETHA FRANKLIN, the superannuated "Queen of Soul" who is a standard at mass public events, will be among those performing for "Pope" Francis in Philadelphia on Sept. 26. In this video, the Protestant divorceé sings her hit "Sisters Doin' It for Themselves," a paean to humility and modesty in women.  

VOX DAY writes that "immigration is invasion."

“Photographer Tara Ruby says she hopes the picture will show that military moms ‘can be amazing mothers and soldiers at the same time.'” — Source

Totalitarian countries love the military gal!

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  KENTUCKY clerk Kim Davis returned to work today after her six-day jail stay and made a moving statement (see video here.) She said she will not issue same-sex marriage licenses under her name because of her religious objections and any licenses signed by her deputies must state they were issued under federal authority. She pleaded for what she calls a "modest accommodation" whereby the licenses would be issued by the state or federal government instead of her office. The video of her statement is well worth watching (despite the commercials). "I don't want to have this conflict, I don't want to be in the spotlight, and I certainly don't want to be a whipping post," she tearfully says. "I am no hero, I am just a person who has been transformed by the grace of God and who wants to work and to be with my family. I want to serve my neighbors quietly without violating my conscience." "While my case might be the most visible right now, there are millions of people out there in the private and public sector who face similar situations and they need reasonable accommodations." The 2004 Kentucky marriage amendment, which did not allow for homosexual unions, was approved by 74 percent of those who voted. This instance of oppressive federal authority makes the tax and sovereignty disputes which launched the American Revolution seem minor by comparison.

FROM Catholic Tradition Newsletter by the Rev. Fr. Courtney Edward Krier:

One thing faithful Catholics must always remember is that priests are not happiologists. Somehow the common masses, of which spirit the majority of pagan Catholics have absorbed, believe that the Church is there to make them happy. If they mess up their lives, the Church is there to take away the consequences and restore them to happiness. If their marriage is unhappy, the Church is there to remove the husband or wife or children that are making them unhappy and give them another husband or wife or children that will make them happy. If they become diseased because of their lifestyle, the Church is there to miraculously restore their health so they can continue to live happily in their lifestyle.  (more…)

I WILL be back in action today after a few days away from the computer. I have received some comments on recent entries that I have yet to post.  

SHEFALI writes from India: Growing up as a convent-educated woman, I wistfully dreamt of the old country. Lace tablecloths, cups of the finest Darjeeling over a Charles Dickens. I know now the West I once lionized with the civility and beauty lacking in my own surroundings is an illusion that exists in the minds of us bigots. It's exactly like you said, first same-sex marriage, then siblings, then a menage-de-trois, then maybe one with your own pet. In times like these, you know that either you are insane or the whole world is.