SPEAK THE TRUTH, EVEN IF YOUR VOICE SHAKES
When you see the atrocities taking place in Syria today, as well as in other areas of the Middle East, involving the burning of Christian churches and the destruction of entire Christian communities, it really makes you thankful that you live here, in America.America, where Christians are safe. Not only safe, but where Christian ideals … Continue reading Christianity clearly under attack in America
Forgiveness, dialogue, reconciliation.Today, Pope Francis called on all Catholics, in fact all people interested in peace, to pray for Syria in the wake of the terrible atrocities and death that have visited this cradle of Christianity and which threaten to explode even further in the coming days and weeks.Those three words: forgiveness, dialogue, and reconciliation … Continue reading Pray for peace
For hardcore baseball fans like myself, this is the most wonderful time of the year. The weather will begin to turn cooler, daylight will fade faster, but the pennant races will be heating up and the stars will come out to shine as the MLB regular season comes to a climax this month.Tonight, those races … Continue reading Down the stretch they come!
On Tuesday evening, anchor Colleen Carroll Campbell signed on to the Eternal Word Television Network (EWTN) live at 6pm EDT to launch the latest, and perhaps most ambitious and necessary, Catholic television since the network began over three decades ago.For one night in each of the next few weeks, and then ultimately on an as-advertised … Continue reading EWTN News Nightly
I put up this map of Syria as the primary graphic accompaniment to this story in order to show people just where the country is located in relation to the rest of the cesspool that is the Middle East.Syria lies just to the northeast of Israel, our lone reliable ally in the region, and the … Continue reading Syrian cesspool
MATT VEASEY 