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January 2015

January 17, 2015

Home Movies from Papa’s Trip

Pope Francis' Flying Zucchetto Hurricane Haiyan: When I saw from Rome that catastrophe, I...

January 13, 2015

Every Person has a Right to Life; Even If They Say Offensive Things.

Photo Source: Flickr Commons, Francois Lacroix I wrote a post a few weeks ago...

January 09, 2015

Breaking: French Police Corner Terrorist Suspects

Fox News reports that French police have cornered gunmen who are suspected in the terror...

January 08, 2015

Charlie Hebdo Roundup

Book cover photo from Amazon Some days, the news speaks for itself. This is...

January 07, 2015

Terrorists Attack Paris Newspaper. Twelve Reported Dead.

Masked gunmen shouting Allah Akbar shot and killed 12 people and critically injured 4 others...

January 07, 2015

Pope Francis is Writing an Encyclical on the Environment, and Both Sides of the Political Spectrum are Sharpening their Knives

December 2014

December 18, 2014

Breaking: ISIS Murders 150 Girls and Women in Iraq. Boko Haram Kidnaps 100 Villagers in Nigeria.

Photo Source: FreeDigitalPhotos.net ISIS, the Taliban and Boko Haram seem to be in a race for...

December 16, 2014

Taliban Attacks Pakistani School. Guns Down 132 People, Most of Them Children.

In an inexplicable bit of terrorist logic, the Taliban attacked a school in Northwest...

October 2014

October 27, 2014

Book Review: Rise of ISIS, a Threat We Cannot Ignore

To join the discussion about Rise of ISIS, a Threat We Cannot Ignore, or to...

October 24, 2014

NYC Police Commissioner Says Hatchet Attack was Act of Terror

Photo Source: ABC News New York City’s Police Commissioner has said that the hatchet attack...

October 24, 2014

New York Police Officers Wounded in Hatchet Attack. Possible Terrorist Connections.

Photo Source: Zale Thompson’s web site. The New York Police Department is investigating a possible...

October 22, 2014

Breaking: Shots Fired in Canadian Parliament Building

From BBC News US & Canada: Several shots have been fired inside and...

October 22, 2014

Canada: Hit and Run that Killed Soldier is Called Terrorist Attack

Canadian authorities are doing something that American authorities appear to be incapable of doing: They...

October 17, 2014

Four Londoners Charged with ISIS-Related Terrorism

Four men have been accused of plotting a terrorist attack on police officers and soldiers...

October 17, 2014

Nigeria, Boko Haram Agree to Ceasefire and Release of Kidnapped Girls

Nigeria’s chief of defense, Alex Badeh, has announced a truce between the Nigerian government and...

October 08, 2014

The Supremes KO Marriage as a State’s Right Issue

They didn’t do it directly. It was an indirect, “if you say so” kind...

October 08, 2014

President Obama Sends Message to Killer’s Mosque. Did He Ignore Victim’s Family?

My mother was an amazing woman, loving wife to my father and adoring grandmother....

October 07, 2014

Our Lady of the Rosary is also Our Lady of Victory is also a Lady for Our Times

It has always been the habit of Catholics in danger and in troublous times to...

September 2014

September 30, 2014

Pope Francis: The Devil Hates Human Beings and Wants to Destroy Us

September 29, 2014

8 Things I Think I Know about the Oklahoma Beheading

Imam Imad Enchassi I think our local newspeople here in Oklahoma have done a fine...

September 29, 2014

Alton Nolen’s Imam: He’s as Far from Islam as He Could Be

Jah-Keem Yisrael is the name he wanted to be known by. Everyone else calls him...

September 26, 2014

US Bombing Oil Sites Owned by ISIS

The US is bombing oil refineries ISIS is using to fund their murderous onslaught on...

September 26, 2014

Beheading in Oklahoma.

Alton Nolan, a fired employee, beheaded a woman at Vaughan Foods in Moore, Oklahoma, yesterday....

September 25, 2014

Iraq’s Prime Minister Says ISIS Plans Terrorist Attack on US, France

Iraq’s Prime Minister, Haider al-Abadi, says that his country’s intelligence systems have uncovered a plot...

September 25, 2014

ISIS Imitators Behead French Tourist

I watched another video of another helpless man being used as a trophy before he...

September 24, 2014

Christians are Suffering and Dying for Christ. We Must Stand Witness.

The first genocide of the 20th Century, the "forgotten genocide,” was the genocide of Armenian...

September 22, 2014

Oklahoma’s Black Mass Backfires. Opens the Doorway to Christ.

Nuns Off a Bus. Sisters, arriving at the Benediction. I don’t know what to...

September 19, 2014

ISIS Releases Video of Captured Brit. Says They Want to Play Nice.

ISIS continues its shameless abuse of helpless prisoners with its latest video of one of...

September 19, 2014

France Launches First Air Strikes Against ISIS

France bombed an ISIS depot in northeast Iraq today. President Hollande issued a statement saying...

September 17, 2014

Are We at the Beginning of World War III?

Are we fighting World War III, only on a piecemeal basis? Pope Francis seems to...