Hard-Won Wisdom

Hard-Won Wisdom By Clifford Thompson January 15, 2022 A passage in Walt Whitman’s seminal 1855 work, Leaves of Grass, reads, “And do not call the tortoise unworthy because she is not / something else, / And the mocking bird in the swamp never studied the / gamut, yet trills pretty well to me.” Another reads, […]

Fr. Mitch Pacwa the hunting Jesuit : Part 2

Part 2 of our interview with EWTN’s very own Fr. Mitch Pacwa! He joins us in the upper room as we discuss hunting, history, the Jesuit Society, and so much more.   Website: www.romeboys.org

Pro-life congressional leaders praise pledge to oppose federal abortion funding

The US Capitol / Nicholas Haro/Shutterstock Washington D.C., Jan 15, 2022 / 06:00 am (CNA). One hundred and eighty one members of the House of Representatives signed a letter praising the pro-life leadership of Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell and House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy, as well as promising to vote against any appropriations bill […]

Pope to Theatines: persevere in Gospel witness and works of mercy

Pope Francis meets with members the Order of Clerics Regular (Theatines) concluding their General Chapter and encourages them to go forward with openness to the Spirit, firmly rooted in prayer, adoration, common life, fraternal charity, poverty and service to the poor. Read all  

PROGRESSIVE POSTER CHILD CDL. CUPICH PRESIDES OVER PAGAN CHINESE CEREMONY

Before celebrating Mass in the gymnasium of Catholic high school in Mundelein, Illinois on January 7, 2020, Cardinal Cupich, dressed in a red miter and chasuble, holding his episcopal crosier and surrounded by several priests adorned in this way. Then he waited for a Chinese lion-shaped puppet to dance in the gymnasium and approach them. […]

Paradise Lost in a Nutshell

Although almost all the great writers prior to the mid-seventeenth century had been Catholic in either sympathy or practice, John Milton (1608-74) took up the Protestant cause with revolutionary zeal. Following the victory of Cromwell’s Puritan army in the English Civil War, he supported and defended the execution of King Charles I. Then, in 1660, […]