ALAN writes:

Dear Grandma,

Many years have gone by since we last spoke. I remember that you were always there at home every day of my life; well, at least until I got to be seven years old, when you went away through no choice of your own.

I remember that my mother asked our good friend Betty to look after me for several hours on that day in 1957. You and Grandpa are pictured in a photograph from 1945 that I keep on my bookshelves, and I have often talked to you there.

I know that in the 1930s-‘40s, you and my mother enjoyed listening to Kay Kyser’s radio program and that its theme song was “Thinking of You”.  So tonight I am thinking of you, Grandma.

I miss you terribly and I miss any chance to express to you the gratitude that seven-year-old boys are too young to understand.

Any number of things prompt me to remember you, from Christmas photographs to flowers in the back yard, from the unbearable heat of summer days to the night in 1956 when we watched television news reports about the sinking of the Andrea Doria.  The Homer Laughlin “Tulips in a Basket” chinaware in the cabinet across the room from me reminds me of you and how you chose to use that china only on special occasions.

One evening in 1994 I happened by chance to hear the 1920 song “Love Nest”. Its melody reminded me instantly of the comfort I felt when you sat there with me on nights in the 1950s and we enjoyed the comedy of George and Gracie on “The Burns and Allen Show” on black-and-white TV, for which “Love Nest” was the theme song.

And this offers me a chance to show you an example of how stupid modern Americans have become:  You would consider it the nuttiest idea you ever heard—which it is—but modern Americans believe that boys can become girls and men can become women.  By contrast, consider the following lines from the Burns and Allen radio show of Jan. 17, 1946.  George and Gracie are talking about orchestra leader Meredith Willson and a women’s club called the Beverly Hills Uplift Society. (more…)

AN IMPORTANT piece at The Anti-New York Times looks at how corporate CEO's have been forced to participate in a Communist-style Revolution: It explains why so many companies allowed themselves to be “shaken down” by the “anti-capitalist” Marxists of Black Lives Matter. You see, it wasn’t actually a small group of Black lesbian street activists who forced Corporate America to promote BLM on their company websites while collectively pledging an estimated $1.6 Billion dollars to the Reds. No sir. It was the Vanguard-BlackRock-State Street Investment Mafia that did that! Wow, this makes a lot of sense out of recent events.  

ANOTHER report showing that CV-19 has mysteriously not been as contagious in America's prisons as it is alleged to be at large.  

AS YOU probably already know, there have been many attacks against churches here and abroad in the last two months. Correct me if I’m wrong, but I believe every single one of these attacks is against Catholic buildings or statues. Satanists, anarchists, Communists, Muslims — they know there is one true Church. (These buildings sadly no longer house Catholic worship, but that’s another issue and the attackers are attacking the Catholic faith nevertheless.)

Here’s a piece from yesterday’s Catholic News Agency:

The fire that ripped through the Gothic Cathedral of St. Peter and St. Paul in Nantes July 18 was reported around the world. But suspected arson attacks on French churches usually do not make international headlines.

Since 2010, the Paris-based L’Observatoire de la Christianophobie (Observatory of Christianophobia) has chronicled anti-Christian incidents in France and around the world.

It has recorded these events month by month on interactive maps since 2017, placing them in six categories: arson, murder/assault, vandalism, theft, bombing, and abduction.

Following Saturday’s fire at Nantes, the organization has reported several less well-publicized incidents, including the destruction of a crucifix on the Île-d’Arz in Brittany, the slashing of paintings in a church in Auxerre, and the decapitation of a statue of the Virgin Mary in Montaud.

Statistics suggest there are nearly three such attacks a day in France, which is sometimes described as the “eldest daughter of the Church” because the Frankish King Clovis I embraced Catholicism in 496.

The French Interior Ministry recorded 996 anti-Christian acts in 2019 — an average of 2.7 per day. The true figure may be higher, as it is thought that officials do not count fires of undetermined cause at churches across the country.

On July 4, for example, fire devastated the Parish of St. Paul in Corbeil-Essonnes. Investigators concluded that the blaze resulted from a gas leak caused by squatters, but locals questioned the official explanation. (more…)

TRUMP sent good wishes yesterday to Ghislaine Maxwell, awaiting trial in New York for sex crimes against minors:

Donald Trump has sent a message of support to Ghislaine Maxwell as pedophile billionaire Jeffrey Epstein’s accused madam awaits her trial for sex trafficking minors.

The president admitted meeting Maxwell ‘numerous times’ over the years and wished her well in his Tuesday White House press conference – his first since vowing to return to coronavirus news briefings as cases soar across the US.

Trump’s connections to Epstein and Maxwell have long come under scrutiny as they mixed in the same wealthy circles for decades, with Trump once describing the convicted pedophile as a ‘terrific guy’.

What a sleazeball. (more…)

"THE SOUL of a child is free from all passions. He bears no ill-will towards those who have done him harm, but goes to them as friends, just as if they had done nothing. And though he be often beaten by his mother, yet he always seeks her and loves her more than anyone else. If you show him a queen in her royal crown, he prefers his mother clad in rags, and would rather see her unadorned than the queen in magnificent attire; for he does not appreciate according to riches or poverty, but by love. He seeks not for more than is necessary, and as soon as he has had sufficient milk he quits the breast. He is not oppressed with the same sorrows as we, nor troubled with care for money and the like; neither is he rejoiced by our transitory pleasures, nor affected by corporal beauty. Therefore Our Lord said: Of such is the kingdom of heaven, wishing us to do of our own free will what children do by nature." --- St. John Chrysostom  

FOR YEARS, Camille Paglia has been touted as a “maverick critic and scholar,” by conservatives and liberals.

Here, in this video, is a little background. (more…)