But like they do in most places, America’s financial, political, and social elites really do keep a tight grip on the reins of power — that’s why they’re called elites — and they work hard to protect their interests. Despite what they tell us, what’s good for them i...
to relate to, even if the examples I use are specifically Catholic ones. But the basic problem is this. If you’ve been Catholic, if you’ve been Christian for more than a few minutes, you’ve probably had the experience of friends and family coming to you and demanding you explain ...
Many claims have been made about the resemblances between Christianity and earlier myths and religions. Some of those claims are true and others aren’t.
Go ask anybody to explain what “bipartisan” means. l don’t have a clue what it means. But everytime l watch a video from the “American media” l hear that word like ten times to the minute. This is Marxism-Leninism for “democracy”, a boatload of Jewish mumbo-jumbo bulls–t...
1. The One-Sentence Journal The first step — that first word on a blank page — is always the hardest to take. “I think the best way to get started with absolutely anything is to just do it,” advises Lee Crutchley, author of “The Nocturnal Journal” and “The Art of Getting Sta...
explain each of these terms, but I will give a quick definition of “counterpoint.” Wolfgang Mozart said, “Counterpoint is simple. When one voice goes up, the other goes down. When one voice moves, the other voice stays put.” What makes counterpoint difficult is that the verticalharmonies...
joining an order. Especially if the order is either one that provides education to children or hospital nursing, one may need to train in these areas. Some nuns work as psychologists or doctors too, but an order that includes such a nun seldom requires all the others nuns to do the same...
They stopped feeling that it was safe to send their wives to the market or their children to the schools. Muslims do not feel safe even going to the hospitals, because some Jewish doctors in one of the hospitals poisoned sick Muslim children, who then died.” Q: “The media has reported...
9 He builds on Paul’s analogy of spiritual milk to explain the following: Just as solid food must be taken into the mother’s flesh and converted to milk for little ones, so God the Son, the spiritual food the very angels enjoy, became enfleshed to rescue spiritually little ones. (On...
Weakening consensus on sacred attachments, rituals, moral rules, and beliefs is a greater danger for the lawlessness that causes violence than religion itself. The social organism needs a cohesive narrative supported by shared rituals to explain and justify its existence.26 Social integrity requires ...