No surprise here

Reader GR kindly sent along a Bill Donahue piece from the Catholic League announcing the less-than-surprising news New York’s Mayor Mamdani, “likes anti-religious bigots.” Donahue then presents a list of some of the more virulently anti-Catholic, anti-Jewish bigots with whom Mamdani associates and is close with many. He even has appointed some of them toContinue reading “No surprise here”

When the discipline of your church is do whatever you please . . .

. . . there’s little need for an Episcopal seminary. From WPIX News There is a new mission coming to a New York City landmark. There is history on West 21st Street between Ninth and 10th Avenues in Chelsea. For 200 years, the General Theological Seminary has had a bell tower and trees add toContinue reading “When the discipline of your church is do whatever you please . . .”

A breakthrough in criminology

El Salvador president Nayib Bukele’s radical policy of imprisoning convicted murderers has resulted in them being prevented from committing additional murders. A consequence of such an unorthodox approach is that beleaguered country, which used to suffer one the highest murder rates in the world, seeing it drop drastically. Other crime-ridden countries and neighborhoods might wishContinue reading “A breakthrough in criminology”

A priest friend writes tellingly of whom to blame for the dismal results of New York’s recent election.

Once again, the Catholic voters, who are 38% of the city population could have defeated the Marxist Muslim, if they had been more intelligent. And of course one can guess how Catholic Charities voted. — And, the friend of a friend, the estimable Bill Donahue, writes all that needs to be written about yesterday’s catastrophe andContinue reading “A priest friend writes tellingly of whom to blame for the dismal results of New York’s recent election.”

Gloria in excelsis Deo

From the National Catholic Reporter news I somehow missed. A top American cardinal celebrated a traditional Latin Mass on Saturday (Oct. 25) in St. Peter’s Basilica with the explicit permission of Pope Leo XIV, thrilling traditionalist Catholics who had felt abandoned after Pope Francis greatly restricted the ancient liturgy. A few thousand pilgrims, many ofContinue reading “Gloria in excelsis Deo”