06/08/25 – May the Holy Spirit fill you with grace and love and guide you to do God’s will today and every day. May the Holy Spirit move throughout the world. Happy Pentecost Sunday!
06/05/25 – We’re glad to see a unanimous decision on this case. The Wisconsin Supreme Court’s decision was appalling in its bias, ignorance, and interference in religious expression. Set aside any denominational differences that have evolved over 2,000 years of history. Firstly, from the very beginning of Christianity, Christians served everybody. In fact, it was an identifying characteristic of members of the nascent religion. They will know us by our love that was for all people. See the Good Samaritan. Secondly, to serve our fellow human beings has also never been conditional on proselytizing. We aren’t transactional. That’s what secular people do. We serve out of love for our God and for each other. Lastly, think about the perverse conditions this ruling was effectively imposing on Catholic Charities. You can only be considered religious if you serve people like you or with the intention of converting them to be like you. The Wisconsin Supreme Court should be ashamed of itself for this ruling….
“While nobody disputed that Catholic Charities is religious, the Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled that it is not operated primarily for religious purposes because it neither restricts its charity to Catholic recipients nor uses the opportunity to proselytize the Catholic faith. Catholic Charities argued that both of these practices are the results of Catholic doctrine rather than symptoms of a lack of religious purpose.” This would be obvious to anybody who knows anything about Catholicism, really about Christianity.
Supreme Court Says Catholicism Is a Religion, Too
06/05/25 – Pentecost Sunday is coming up, and it’s a good reminder of unity among differences for our country and for the world. The current trajectory is simply unsustainable and dangerous.
06/05/25 – We’re not going to judge anyone for breaking out the popcorn or engaging in some schadenfreude…, but we went from biden’s infirmity being exposed to the world to heated, public fighting between the president and his once billionaire backer. None of this is good for our country, and we’re becoming more and more vulnerable to our enemies. We also have even more enemies and less friends now. We are also not setting a good example for the world for good governance and, well, much of anything right now.
06/03/25 – We’re curious about something. Why is it that said elite institutions, both the ones who caved and the ones who are flattering themselves about “standing up” to a certain person, are so lacking in real diversity? Why is it that said elite institutions disproportionately favor the same kinds of people? They are the kids whose parents raised them to be academically overweened and intellectually insipid, over-paid, elite cookie-cutters who lack creativity, intellectual depth or moral sophistication. Their mission in life is to enrich themselves and achieve status. Impressive.
Christianity has numerous expressions while still being a coherent faith, and people from all walks of life. Our saints are from everywhere. Africa, the continent on which Christianity arrived in the first century, the very beginning of the faith, has the most Christians, by the way, not Europe. About one-quarter of the world’s Christians live in Africa. The Holy Spirit is moving on that glorious continent with its gorgeous, smart, faithful people.
Are the elite institutions not interested in them? Are they only interested in the rich, spoiled children of rich, ambitious Chinese parents? What about poor, rural, white American children? Not interested in them either. Are they all just too poor? Too untrained to be elite? Did they not write papers the elite institutions’ fraudulent faculty with their doctored data would like? Did they not flatter enough of their faculty’s egos, who have convinced themselves that they are intellectual gods? Are they not rigorous enough (whatever that means)? See the problem with elite institutions is that they are actually not elite. They are frauds. They are pretending to be something they are actually not. They are pretending to be meritocratic, but they are not.
In the Christian context, meritocracy doesn’t exist in the making of a saint. Even Catholics, who consider good works, wouldn’t talk about it that way. The Spirit guides you to a saintly life. You become a saint out of love of and fidelity to God. You become a saint by your willingness to sacrifice everything, sometimes even your life, to do God’s will. It’s certainly not about enriching yourself and achieving status. There is a rot in the state of the elite institutions. It is soulless, and the integrity of its body decayed long ago.
06/03/25 – The late, great Billy Graham regularly reminded his large audiences that Christianity is not a white man’s religion. Christianity belongs to the world. Blessed are our martyrs. We love them. We remember them. They were and are the seeds of our faith. May their beautiful, brave souls rest in peace with the Lord.
Morning Prayer | 6.3.25
06/02/25 – Perhaps the best thing for the elite American universities is that the ones that were founded as Christian institutions should return to their Christian roots. The genius secular academics are free to invade Islamic institutions of higher education and secularize them with their obvious brilliance. Happy Monday!
06/02/25 – There isn’t a larger, more geographically diverse or more multi-cultural institution than the Catholic Church, or a larger, more geographically diverse or more multi-cultural religion than Christianity. Within this broad, varied body is unity in Christ. Secular societies can learn from this model. This video presents a fair set of criticisms and observations of secular “multi-culturalism.”
What Catholicism Can Teach Us about Multiculturalism
06/01/25 – The Palestinian people deserve their own state, and it is unconscionable to starve them or engage in any kind of war crimes against them, which is what Netanyahu and his supporters have done. They should be arrested and brought to trial at The Hague.
The National Review is clearly Zionist. We wonder if it understands the psychology and the history of the people with whom it is dealing. If the National Review thinks that the violence being perpetrated against the Jewish people in the United States is simply the failure of the American left in reining in the extremes within its ranks, we present the state of affairs as described in the posts below.
Islamic violence or violence perpetrated by Palestinian sympathizers is a pathology and likely inflamed by misguided theology. If this were not the case, the violence would not be generalized to the degree that it is. They say that Islam is peace. Is that what the world sees? Let us be honest. No, it is not. Look at the number of terroristic acts perpetrated by Islamic extremists. The most prominent act in the United States was 9/11, but these acts can be found throughout the world.
Is the National Review oblivious to these facts? Yes, there is an anti-Semitic problem on the left, but it is definitely not the only reason for the radicalization. Arguably, the main reason is the Islamic faith itself. So, we’re wondering how the National Review plans to help Israel by complaining about the left’s inability or unwillingness to do something about this problem. Netanyahu and the extreme Jewish right are not helping the Jewish people. Is there going to be any recognition of this? Please share with us a reasonable plan that accounts for the realities as they are.
06/01/25 – One of the problems with Islam is that many of its adherents are under the grand delusion or great ignorance that they would have a religion without Judaism. They also seem to think that the entire Middle East and Northern Africa belongs to Muslims. It does not. The reason is simple. Of the three Abrahamic religions, Islam is the youngest. The believers of both Judaism and Christianity have lived there longer. There is this thing called time, and it doesn’t care about anybody’s fictions.
The other great problem with many Islamic countries is that they don’t seem to have any respect for religious freedom. Neither the Jewish people nor Christians impose their religion on anyone, and conversion can be a long discernment process. We know, for a fact, that many “Muslims” actually want to publicly convert out of the religion. What does Islam intend to achieve by appropriating religious institutions that do not belong to it or forcing the religion on people who practice or would like to practice a different faith? Do they think that God is fooled by their violence and intolerance? Do they think that God will reward this conduct? If they do, they are wrong.
06/01/25 – St. Catherine’s Monastery in Sinai, Egypt should remain under the ownership of the Greek Orthodox Church. “I hope that Secretary of State Marco Rubio and the State Department’s Ambassador at Large for Religious Freedom explicitly speak out in support of the independence of St. Catherine’s and that the Egyptian government works to reverse this ruling and return ownership of the property to the Greek Orthodox Church. The monks of St. Catherine’s deserve the right to live independently in worshipful peace.”
Historic St. Catherine’s Monastery in Peril