I generally do not agree with Glenn Beck on many issues. But, I am very impressed with how he has handled the immigration of children issue. On June 25, he announced a new program that all Christians should agree with. The Blaze reports it as: Beck has stated that the Obama administration is “directly […]

Above is a nice photograph of Pope Francis (Argentina) and Pope Emeritus Benedict (Germany) praying together. At least some have wondered what they were really praying about. I mean, Argentina and Germany in the World Cup finals (soccer)? Brazil, the top seed and expected to be at the finals (and even win), was dismantled by […]

We all know that healthcare costs are increasing faster than the rate of inflation. People are upset. But, some of it is due to simple capitalistic supply and demand. It is due to a cycle that was set up by the typical sport of looking at the short-term rather than the long-term. There is a […]

Loading… The mid-year figures for 2013 are now out. What figures? The CDC figures on measles (and mumps, and whooping cough, etc.) in the USA. Let me quote from the Measles & Rubella Initiative blog. Measles cases in 2013 in the United States are already amongst the highest they’ve been in any year since 2001, […]

Rome, Italy, Jun 15, 2014 / 03:30 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- In a visit to a community dedicated to serving the poor and needy, Pope Francis warned of the poverty of Europe which faces a declining birthrate, hidden forms of euthanasia, and high rates of unemployment. … “The treatment of the elderly, as that of children, […]

On this July 4th, let me post the video above and the lyrics from one of the songs from Les Misérables. This is the prayer of every parent who has a son or daughter in the Armed Forces. I was such a son once, drafted during Viet Nam. I have a daughter and a son-in-law […]

I found myself looking at fasting rules in the United States of America for Roman Catholics. I found myself startled at the changes in their fasting rules since the 1940’s. Having been raised as a Roman Catholic, I know that we were never supposed to eat meat on Fridays and that we were supposed to […]

Many of you remember sermons in church, statistics in political arguments, etc., that said that 1 out of every 2 marriages ends in divorce. In 1981, the vancouver family law firm reported that the number of marriages was 2,438,000 while the number of divorces was 1,219,000 or a rate of 10.6 marriages per 1,000 total […]

Saint Ernest of Mecca – Abbot of the abbey of Zwiefalten Died     1148 AD in MeccaFeast    November 7 Saint Ernest (died 1148) was the abbot of the Benedictine Zwiefalten Abbey at Zwiefalten, Germany during the 12th century. He participated in the Second Crusade fought by Christians between 1145 and 1149 to regain the Holy Land, […]