‘Frequency’ 25 Aug 2013 | 10:26 am

Just saw it: thumbs up. Reviews.

Bradley Manning’s jail sentence, some Norwegian Catholics, and Pope Benedict’s mystical experience 22 Aug 2013 | 09:02 pm

From Ad Orientem: Manning gets 35 years. John C. speaks for me: With time served, good behavior and parole he could be out in ten years. This seems fair to me. Regular readers know my line: if he’s a ...

‘Strong’ Catholic identity at a four-decade low in U.S. 21 Aug 2013 | 09:29 pm

The percentage of U.S. Catholics who consider themselves “strong” members of the Roman Catholic Church has never been lower than it was in 2012, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of new data...

The dark side of the special relationship and other stories 21 Aug 2013 | 07:42 pm

From RR: CIA ’fesses up to ’53 meddling in Iran. Why the devout Shiite Muslim revolutionaries hated us 35 years ago. Isolationist without apology here. Like George Washington (his farewell address). ...

Russia as the great nyet athwart the West, Egypt proves Pope Benedict right, and how to start a business 20 Aug 2013 | 09:28 pm

Russia vs. homosexualism. Russia rejects ‘the new society’ because it’s been there before. They don’t need the police to stop a gay parade — just 25,000 women carrying icons. Russia’s both big (plus i...

Riverside, NJ Car Show 19 Aug 2013 | 10:31 pm

‘Valkyrie’ 18 Aug 2013 | 06:40 pm

The critics may not have liked it but I did. The movie. The true story of Claus von Stauffenberg, the German nobleman, career army officer, and Catholic, from a military family, who tried to kill Hitl...

Bishop Williamson on pathology 18 Aug 2013 | 06:20 pm

The great Queen of Spain, Isabella the Catholic, is reported once to have commissioned a painting that would show a priest at the altar, a woman giving birth and a criminal being hanged. In other word...

Assumpta est Maria in caelum 15 Aug 2013 | 10:45 pm

Signum magnum apparuit in caelo. I’m not extremely Marian. Ephesus said it all: Jesus is true God and true man, so we can and should call Mary by that wonderfully shocking title, Mother of God. The sh...

What a post-U.S. America might look like, and more 12 Aug 2013 | 10:02 pm

From LRC: What a post-U.S. America might look like. What’s relevant – the only relevant thing – is, simply: Do you support use of government threats and violence to take other people’s property for y...