ALAN writes:

My maternal grandmother enjoyed crocheting and playing cards.  During intense thunderstorms, she would walk from room to room, carrying a lighted candle and praying.  I have only one picture in which she is smiling—at the sight of her infant grandson being placed on a pony at a school picnic in 1950.  She loved watching Western movies and TV shows because she understood and valued the iron moral code upheld in those Westerns.  When I was a toddler, she held me on her lap as we watched the weekly adventures of “The Lone Ranger.”  She died when I was seven years old.

I agree with Lydia Sherman’s remarks about the neglect of grandparents and the disintegration of American families.

My paternal grandparents died years before I was born.  I knew my maternal grandparents, but not nearly as well as I could and should have known them.  My grandfather worked for a printing company and my grandmother was a housewife.  When I was a boy they walked with us to Sunday morning Mass at our Catholic church, two blocks from where we lived.  Both of them came from large families.  One of my grandfather’s nephews and his wife had twelve children—six of one and half a dozen of the other.  (more…)

A FATHER allegedly dragged his daughter by her hair through a Texas Walmart. (more…)

WHILE yet another alleged police shooting of a black man gets national attention in Charlotte, the daily realities of black crime are given relatively little attention.

Here’s an amazing story.

Chester, Pa. has the highest homicide rate in the country. The victims and perpetrators are overwhelmingly black. But the most striking thing is that roughly 70 percent of the homicides in the small city are never solved. Commit murder in Chester and you are highly likely to get away with it.

Caitlin McCabe and Grace Toohey of The Philadelphia Inquirer report on the issue. The homicide rate averaged 53 people a year in a population of about 34,000, from 2000 to 2014, they report. Police say a major factor in the low solve rate is cultural. Everyone in the town knows each other. A “no-snitch” rule prevails. Retaliation is a serious risk for witnesses.

Between 1965 and 1975, the homicide rate hardly topped 15 a year. Police solved 91 percent of them. (more…)

HILLARY Clinton is suffering from vascular dementia, according to an anonymous medical school professor. She was diagnosed in 2013 and the illness has a three- to five-year survival rate.  Her symptoms, including the unusual wandering of her eyes at an event on Monday, are consistent with this compelling theory. It explains why she collapsed last week and looked fine a short time later. It was a neurological event, not pneumonia, which would involve visible exhaustion and coughing, which she did not exhibit.

  EDITH STEIN,  the university professor, philosopher and eventual Carmelite nun, said at a convention in 1930: Many of the best women are almost overwhelmed by the double burden of professional and family duties -- or often simply of gainful employment. Always on the go, they are harassed, nervous and irritable. Where are they to get the needed inner peace and cheerfulness in order to offer stability, support, and guidance to others? In consequence there are daily little frictions with husband and children despite real mutual love and recognition of the other's merits, hence unpleasantness in the home and the loosening of family ties. She also stated in the same speech: Every profession in which woman's soul comes into its own and which can be formed by woman's soul is an authentic woman's profession. The innermost formative principle of woman's soul is the love which flows from the divine heart. (Essays on Women, Edith Stein)

 MRS. W. writes:

My husband and I have been following your blog since he discovered you last year. Our journey to find the True Catholic Church has been a difficult one and we are still continuing to learn more about it. As I have said we have been reading you for a while and have come to respect you and your opinions most highly. You are one of the few women who seem to really understand what is going on in the world and, it would seem, that no subject is taboo for you and I therefore trust your opinions. With that I have something to ask you: what are your views on modesty? (more…)

BRANDON MARTINEZ comments on what he says is the alternative media's unquestioning approval of Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad.

WOLFGANG GRASSL writes at Crisis Magazine:

The frantic quest for “diversity” is a deeply anti-Catholic impulse. It finds no support in Catholic moral and social teaching. There is no mention of diversity as a goal of Catholic life in the Catechism of the Catholic Church or in any of the pastoral, moral, or social constitutions and encyclicals before and after Vatican II. Diversity has never been advocated by the great thinkers of the Church, who have instead preached unity. And there is a good reason for this glaring absence: Catholics marvel at the natural diversity of God’s Creation, at the difference in people, animals, landscapes, plants, and languages. They want to preserve as much of this diversity as is possible, because it enriches all of us. But they will resist disturbing the order God has willed for the world. Erecting skyscrapers in the Sahara Desert, crossbreeding species, developing artificial languages, dying our hair green—all of these increase diversity, but at what cost? Artificial diversification drives out the natural diversity of God’s very good Creation. Enticing students of a particular race from a distant big city to move to a small rural one, or making every effort to prioritize gay and lesbian candidates for faculty positions, does not exactly exemplify the improvement of the world to which Christians are called.

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RACHEL writes:

Have you seen this?  This is really not about women.  It’s about ANTI-children.

Women always have had control over their reproductive life.  It’s called, don’t have sex. (more…)

LILLIAN MOLLER GILBRETH is credited with inventing the layout of the modern kitchen. It's an interesting story. Here's a 2012 article about her from Slate. Gilbreth, described as an industrial psychologist and engineer, had 12 children (and the help of servants). She was an anonymous assistant to her husband until his death, at which point she pursued their joint field on her own. She did motion studies of women working in the kitchen and introduced "Gilbreth's Kitchen Practical" at a Women's Exposition in 1929. The design is similar that in many kitchens today. In the 1940s, what Gilbreth called “circular routing” became known as the kitchen “work triangle,” a concept that designers still rely on today. In an efficiently planned kitchen, the perimeter of the triangle formed by stove, sink, and refrigerator should be no greater than 26 feet, with a typical distance of 5.5 feet between appliances. As neat as her ideas are, others probably would have come up with them if she hadn't. But no one else could have come up with those twelve Gilbreths.

 BURY THY SORROW Bury thy sorrow, hide it with care; Bury it deeply; the world has its share. Think of it calmly, when curtained by night, Tell it to Mary and all will be right. Tell it to Mary, She knoweth thy grief; Tell it to Mary, She’ll send thee relief. Hearts grown aweary with heavier woe Drop into darkness; go, comfort them, go— Bury thy sorrow, let others be blest, Give them the sunshine; tell Mary the rest. Source

  THE brilliant E. Michael Jones offers his panoramic view of Western history in "The Goy Guide to World History." This is Part I (above). Here is Part II (below), in which he wisely says, "The Jewish people are the human shields for the Jewish leaders."  

KRISTOR writes at The Orthosphere:

In the latest issue of Touchstone, SM Hutchens identifies the ultimate target of the Social Justice Warriors:

The white male conservative is the hidden, negative correlative of “diversity” among those who value that concept. It is he who, by definition, is not diverse, and therefore can not only not share in that virtue, but is the embodiment of all that opposes it. (more…)

ONE OF the best websites on the Internet, Novus Ordo Watch, has a great new look and format. See its new page of memes about Vatican II (samples below) and sedevacantism and lots of great introductory articles and videos.

Congratulations, Novus Ordo Watch! You’re the best!

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LYDIA SHERMAN writes: In the simple days, the highlight of a child's life was the trip to the Grandparent's house. My husband is a preacher in a church, and is hearing almost daily, reports from grandparents in tears who say their children are too busy taking their children to fairs and amusement parks and vacation locations, to visit the grandparents long enough to form any heart-felt connection. He calls this a national plague, and says it is destroying the country faster than bad politics. When families are strong, individuals cannot be swayed to participate in false ideas. Detachment, emotionally and physically, is encouraged even in homeschool families, making individuals vulnerable to all kinds of evil. I too remember the simple home life, where there was not so much time to argue with one another. We were too busy bringing in the wood from the wood pile, or heating the water for washing, and gathering in the food from the garden. Yet, even those who did not live so rough a lifestyle and who had more leisure and personal comfort at home, could hardly wait to take the children to Grandma's house. The children looked forward to it more than a trip to Disneyland.

RHONDA Pasek, 50, and her friend, James Acord, 47, are shown passed out in an SUV on a street in East Liverpool, Ohio while Pasek’s four-year-old grandson is in the backseat. Both adults had overdosed on heroin. They were resuscitated and arrested.

Drug overdoses killed a record 3,050 people in Ohio last year, more than one-third of them from fentanyl, a super-potent opiate often mixed with heroin. Source (more…)