"It is a smaller sin to follow evil which you think is good, than not to venture to defend what you know for certain is good. If we cannot endure threats, injustice, poverty, how shall we overcome the flames of Babylon? Let us not lose by hollow peace what we have preserved by war. I should be sorry to allow my fears to teach me faithlessness, when Christ has put the true faith in the power of my choice." --- Saint Jerome, Prologue to the Treatise Against the Pelagians

SEE the report at the DailyKenn blog.

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NOVUS ORDO WATCH reports on the Holy Spirit Chapel at Berkeley University:

The perpetrators of this infernal dungeon are Stephen De Staebler (sculptures) and Mario J. Ciampi with Richard L. Jorasch (architectural design). The work was commissioned — you guessed it — in the latter half of the 1960s, when the new religion of Vatican II began to be implemented.

More photos of this pseudo-liturgical crime scene, if you can handle them, can be found at this link. …

One thing about this is positive, however: It gives perfect external expression to the diabolical Modernist religion. This hellish “worship space” is to Catholic sanctuary what Francis is to Pope, what the Novus Ordo Sect is to Catholic Church, what Modernism is to Catholicism. The Vatican II Sect has nothing to do with the Catholic Church of our Blessed Lord Jesus Christ, whose last known Pope was Pius XII, and the more it is externally manifested, the better.

To see what a Catholic church looks like on the inside, click here.

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THIS scrumptious-looking pizza cake (recipe here) is another marvelous example of the virtually limitless creativity of a pizza-based culture. Why stop at four stories? Go for ten or twenty!

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  ACCORDING TO Fox News, Virginia State Police say they have evidence that links Jesse Matthew, the 32-year-old black football player and former taxi driver who is suspected of abducting missing University of Virginia student Hannah Graham, with the kidnapping and murder of Virginia Tech student Morgan Harrington in 2009. Harrington was last seen at a Metallica concert in Charlottesville on Oct. 17, 2009. Her body was found three months later.

FROM Lifesitenews, the story of Janna Darnelle:

In the fall of 2007, my husband of almost ten years told me that he was gay and that he wanted a divorce. In an instant, the world that I had known and loved—the life we had built together—was shattered. (more…)

  MARK STEYN writes: [M]any westerners are willing to live with a certain amount of decapitation rather than abandon the multiculti pieties.

  IN ADDITION to threatening the due process rights of the accused, California's new campus anti-sexual assault bill, signed by Governor Moonbeam yesterday, is a major affirmation of fornication. The government is essentially saying that it's okay for students to engage in de-personalized promiscuity before marriage, just as long as they go about it the right way.

LYDIA SHERMAN writes:

You once wrote on the topic of the charities that drain our personal resources. After recently attending an evening tea social gathering, (or what I had been told was a formal tea), I noticed that many of the women there were pushing charity-type ministries, and were rarely at home. Many of them were working for multiple charities and marketing several multi-level businesses at the same time.

The women made a point of informing me of their particular ministries and charities. I was cornered by a woman who insisted on relating her experiences leading up to being involved in a ministry. Her “testimony” lasted 20 minutes.

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  SOPHIA writes: Here is a disturbing news article about a German man who had been adopted as a child and later married his biological sister, had four children with her, and was sent to jail under incest laws. The German Ethics Council now on his side has dismissed the protection of the family as "abstract" subordinating it to "sexual self-determination," while three of their children happen to be disabled! Western governments, so obsessed with talk of "rights," have ironically tossed natural law and the actual rights that follow from it out the window.

THIS IS Alton Alexander Nolten, 30, the man who is accused of beheading a co-worker at an Oklahoma food plant yesterday. Nolten was fired from the plant Thursday for unknown reasons and returned to Vaughan Foods in apparent revenge. He was shot by the CEO of the company after beheading Colleen Hufford and stabbing another woman.

Nolen converted to Islam in prison, a fairly common phenomenon among black U.S. inmates. According to The Daily Mail:

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  TEXANNE writes: Following this National Review article about Wesleyan University in Connecticut and its decision to order fraternities to become coed, there's a great line from a commenter: Every institution is going to require both male and female representation except marriage.

STEFAN MOLYNEUX reviews the Disney movie Maleficent, which he offers as a disturbing look at the selfishness and self-glorification of women today.  The moral of the movie: “Men are disposable slaves. Women are dark, justified goddesses of retaliatory magic.”

“It is not healthy to tell women that men are bad. It is not healthy to tell daughters that fathers are bad. It is not healthy to tell wives that husbands are bad, because the absence of fathers is killing the world,” he says.

“A society without respect for men has no respect for nature, or property, or currency, or solvency, for its own children or its own future, which shortens every day.”

But for a little off-color language in this, which is why I wouldn’t recommend listening to it when children are in the room, this is very well done. However, Molyneux ventures into “men’s rights” hyperbole when he says women are proven to be more abusive than men. No one could possibly prove that.

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ACCORDING to The Daily Mail:

Jesse ‘LJ’ Matthew, the man charged with the abduction of missing UVA student Hannah Graham, was accused of rape when he studied at Liberty University, MailOnline can exclusively reveal.

Matthew was expelled from the Christian university founded by Jerry Falwell in Lynchburg, Virginia, in 2002, following the alleged sex attack on a female student but was not charged with any crime, former teammates said. (more…)