ALAN writes: The hard-drinking, twice-divorced American novelist and short story writer Jean Stafford, writing in the midst of the turmoil of the late 1960s-early 1970s, said the following: “….I believe our society is an utterly decadent one.  And I believe so because I believe any society is decadent in which the family is not the basic unit—the basic moral, social, economic unit.   ….  Of course families cause us great pain, but unless we are decadent we must be willing to suffer for principles.   …. The structure of the family, of whom the woman is the architect, has been weakened to the point of debility ….  Nothing obliges us to love our parents or our cousins…but, plainly, the individual must be nurtured within an edifice, within a form.” [The Interior Castle: The Art and Life of Jean Stafford, Ann Hulbert; Knopf, 1992, pp. 350-51 ]

  IN 2009, Luka Wall Kang, a 50-year-old Sudanese refugee, drove into a group of children walking home from school in Salt Lake City. He told police at the time that he was depressed and couldn't find a job. Kang is not the only Sudanese to have trouble adjusting to life in America or involved in violent incidents. Refugee Resettlement Watch has a long archive of newspaper articles from the U.S. and Canada on the subject. It includes articles about AIDS, murder, and hostility American blacks have shown toward the Africans. This fall, the Ron Howard film, The Good Lie will be released. Reese Witherspoon stars as an American woman who helps four Sudanese men resettle in this country. Judging from the trailer, it is fair to say it does not tell the whole story.

  ACCORDING to The Daily Mail: ISIS militants and their supporters are using social media to encourage protesters in Ferguson to embrace radical Islam and fight against the U.S. government. Jihadists in Syria and Iraq and their sympathisers in the West have taken to Twitter to send messages of support to hundreds of demonstrators taking part in a ninth night of angry protests in the U.S. city following the shooting by police of unarmed black teenager Michael Brown.  Other developments in the Michael Brown case: Autopsies show that he was shot in the front, not in the  back, and, according to The Washington Post, Brown tested positive for marijuana. You can listen to rap songs allegedly recorded by Michael Brown here. WARNING: Graphic content and photos.

  RICHARD NEWMAN writes at Public Discourse: Later this fall, the UK’s Department of Health will be launching a national sperm bank to “meet demand,” using £77,000 in public funds to effectively subsidize fatherlessness. British women can reduce their child’s father to the conveniently assorted drop-down menu categories of ethnicity, eye color, hair color and education level with just the click of a mouse.

THE Anonymous Us website collects first-person accounts of the reproductive industry. Here is a letter from a person conceived with an anonymous sperm donor. It reads in part:

Dear Father,

I thought I saw you the other day.

I was standing in the hall of the DMV office, waiting for someone, when a man walked past me to reach the door. And, for a moment, I couldn’t breathe.

This had never happened to me before. Mainly, I had never seen anyone in public who was so close to your height, but this man was very tall, like you. He was naturally tan, like you. And he was young, like you. I had never seen anyone who could have so easily been you.

So I stood there for a moment, not breathing, and waiting for something, though for what I don’t know. He disappeared around the corner of the door, but the tears that had begun were still there as I stared at the spot he had occupied. It scared me slightly, this encounter, because he could have been you. It scared me how easily any man could be you. (more…)

DESIGNER Maria Sjödin offers stylish clerical wear for women. It’s comfortable, professional and alluring.

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THOMAS DROLESKEY writes:

All one needs to know about Jorge Mario Bergoglio’s visit to the Republic of Korea, more commonly referred to as South Korea, is that he is always at home bashing believing Catholics where[ever] in the world he finds himself.

Just consider the following passage from the Argentine Apostate’s address to the conciliar “bishops” of the Republic of Korea: (more…)

AN alleged friend of Officer Darren Wilson, the officer who shot Michael Brown, gave an account on a radio show of what transpired when Brown was shot:

He [Wilson] pulled up ahead of them. And then he got a call-in that there was a strong-arm robbery. And, they gave a description. And, he’s looking at them and they got something in their hands and it looks like it could be what, you know those cigars or whatever. So he goes in reverse back to them. Tries to get out of his car. They slam his door shut violently. I think he said Michael did. And, then he opened the car again. He tried to get out. He stands up.

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    WHY are modern Catholic churches so hideous and desolating? In short, these spaceships are not Catholic. See the post at Novus Ordo Watch.

  IN an article that appeared in The American Thinker last April, Robert Oscar Lopez, who was raised by lesbians, wrote: Gay parenting is built on sheer adult selfishness, but too many conservatives are scared of saying so because they have family members and colleagues they don’t want to offend.  It wouldn’t be so bad if they chose to live in silence but at least supported those of us who are willing to call people out for doing things that are wrong.  Yet when I say things like this, conservatives get scared; the radio silence deepens, and I end up in Europe again. Europe is another world entirely.  The French fill the streets and fight gay adoption – not because they are arguing for more civil discourse, but rather because kids have a right to a mom and a dad, and it is urgent to fight people who violate that right.  They invoke the history of slavery when they see people who want to import children conceived by Indian surrogates.  They compare lesbians engaging in sperm-banking and genetic design schemes to Nazi eugenicists, because the parallel is obvious.  They refer to homosexual adoption as child abuse and remind people that it’s cultural genocide and a violation of international law to use children to engage in social experiments that will alienate them from the civic traditions of their biological parents.

Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com  HERE is terrific analysis from a wild-eyed, black "minister" named Johnathan Gentry. He criticizes Al Sharpton, the NAACP, and Obama. "We're just going around in a cycle, year after year, decade after decade. Excuses, excuses, excuses," he says. Of the police officers defending blacks from criminals, he says, "My heart goes out to them." Of Obama, he says, "Where were you in Chicago on Fourth of July weekend when there were 16 drive-by shootings. You're not there for the black community." He says Michael Brown would never have been shot if he had obeyed the police officer's simple order. The Fox interviewers are truly obnoxious. They call his statement a "rant" and suggest he is "giving in" and is "extreme."

ACCORDING to the latest from the Ferguson, Missouri police department, Michael Brown, the teenager killed by an officer last Saturday, was not the “gentle giant” he has been widely reported to be. The police account contradicts the report by Brown’s friend, Dorian Johnson, who never mentioned anything about a robbery and said the two had been accosted by the officer simply for walking in the middle of the street. Here is the latest from Fox News:

A suburban St. Louis police chief on Friday identified the officer whose fatal shooting of an unarmed black teenager ignited days of heated protests, and released documents alleging the teen was killed after a robbery in which he was suspected of stealing a $48.99 box of cigars.

Ferguson, Mo., Police Chief Thomas Jackson said that the robbery took place just before noon on Saturday at a nearby convenience store roughly 10 minutes before a police officer identified as Darren Wilson fired the bullet that killed Michael Brown. Police say that the shot was fired after a struggled touched off by Wilson’s confronting Brown. Jackson said Wilson is a six-year veteran with no disciplinary action on his record. (more…)

  Hail Mary, Full of Grace. The Lord is with thee. Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners now, and at the hour of our death. Amen.

MASON K. writes:

Two Italian college students flew to Syria, against their parents’ wishes, and have now been captured by militant Islamists. I don’t like to contemplate what is happening to them now.

As gruesome as this is, I thought it fits your current theme of “summer victims” and your perennial theme of the Eloi tax.

By the way, I’m a first-time commenter, but I’ve been reading your blog, on and off, for some time. I am a relatively young man at 29, and I had never encountered any thoughtful conservative opinions until just a few years ago. (more…)

ONE gets the impression from the news that the homosexual agenda is approaching almost universal acceptance. At Tradition in Action, Stefano Gennarini writes:

The most powerful countries and institutions in the world promoting homosexual “rights” are finding resistance even where gay activists thought the battle had been won.

The goal of normalizing same-sex relations through legislation is hitting roadblocks in legislatures, courts, and among people around the globe. (more…)