Classical corner
"The Annunciation", from Heinrich Biber's Mystery Sonatas (the "mysteries" are a reference to the Rosary).Bonus tune! Here's Brandon Acker playing a Baroque banjo - wait; I've just been informed that…
UNGA 80 : Why European Recognition of Palestine Is a Gift to Islamism
As the 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA 80) convenes tomorrow and runs through Sept. 23, the air is thick with the familiar rhetoric of peace, development, and human rights. Yet, in a profound irony, this gathering is…
James and Betty Robison: Repentance
Part one of a two-part series By The Stream Published on September 8, 2025 James Robison explains why repentance is not remorse, regret, reform, or religion,. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loR0bDLSy4I Like the article? Share it with your…
Guns And Commonsense – The Hugh Hewitt Show
“A new law will require all public and charter school students in Tennessee to learn firearm safety….Tenn. Code Ann. § 49-6-1016 passed during the 2024 session, making Tennessee the first state to enact such a law.” This is the most sensical…
The Brew: Trump Team Finds Thousands of Migrant Kids Biden Abandoned
When someone shows you who he is, believe him. The Left has chosen its heroes by following its heart: It sides with the would-be presidential assassins that D.C. juries won’t indict and Democrat judges won’t jail. The Left makes a martyr out of…
Rule Five Sunday: The End of Summer : The Other McCain
Posted on | September 8, 2025 | No Comments — compiled by Wombat-socho This week’s appetizer from A.VO on X, who has clearly mastered the prompts.As I’ve collected a week-long stint in Twitlag for expressing the wish that Xavier Becerra be…
Italian bishop celebrates Mass for LGBT pilgrimage in Rome’s Church of the Gesù
Kristina Millare, Catholic News Agency Monday, September 8, 2025 Bishop Francesco Savino, vice president of the Italian Bishops’ Conference, celebrated Mass at the Church of the Gesù on Saturday for LGBT pilgrims in Rome for the Jubilee of Hope.…
Catholics leading the way in Finance in 2025
One of the United Kingdom’s leading Catholic magazines looks at those who have made a significant impact in American finance. Capital is a moral instrument, and the report spotlights those Catholic leaders in finance who pair prudence with…
Trump and the churches – The Catholic Thing
Peter J. Leithart, First Things Monday, September 8, 2025 Politics is important, but it’s not the first thing. What we call politics isn’t even the first political thing. The churches’ prayers, preaching, song, communion, charity, and discipline…
Pope Leo inaugurates eco-center in continuity with Francis’s vision in ‘Laudato si”
Pope Leo XIV inaugurated a new Vatican environmental project at his summer residence on Friday, aimed at educating in sustainable development and inspired by his predecessor’s 2015 eco-encyclical “Laudato si’”, calling the project “a seed of…