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Learning The Hard Way – The Hugh Hewitt Show
I became a regular, as opposed to occasional, listener of The Hugh Hewitt Show on 9-11. The host speaks with embarrassment of the job he did that day, but I searched all of media as events unfolded and he was the only one that 1) was willing to…
Rule 5 Sunday: Out Like A Lamb : The Other McCain
Posted on | March 30, 2026 | No Comments — compiled by Wombat-socho There’s still snow on some of the ski slopes and mountains. Somewhere. Pic thanks to @kbdabear on X.Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt. EBL: Saturday…
‘Something is happening’: data on Catholic conversions really are unprecedented
Many U.S. dioceses are expecting heavy increases in people joining the Catholic Church at Easter 2026, including some with record highs, a survey by the Register found. “Something’s happening,” said John Helsey, director of communications for…
Olympic Committees ban male-to-female ‘transgender’ athletes
“Transgender women” athletes are now excluded from women’s events at the Olympics after the International Olympic Committee agreed to a new eligibility policy that aligns with the U.S. Olympic Committee’s rule and President Trump’s executive…
A return to tradition: The religious renaissance in the United States
The Pew Research Center’s Religious Landscape Study shows that Christianity – from Catholicism to the various Protestant denominations – has managed over several decades to maintain, with slight variations, its relative share of the total…
The Altar – The Catholic Thing
A broken ALTAR, Lord thy servant rears,Made of a heart, and cemented with teares:Whose parts are as thy hand did frame;No workmans tool hath touch’d the same A HEART aloneIs such a stone,As nothing butThy pow’r doth cut.Wherefore each partOf my…
In Palm Sunday homily, Pope rejects claims that God justifies war
Leo XIV has rejected claims that God justifies war and prayed especially for Christians in the Middle East during a Palm Sunday Mass before tens of thousands of people in St. Peter’s Square. With the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran entering its second…
Holy Work: Michelangelo’s ‘Pietà’ – The Catholic Thing
“The sculptor arrives at his end by taking away what is superfluous.”– Michelangelo to Benedetto Varchi, 1549 The greatest artist of the Renaissance is famous for something he may never have said: “I saw the angel in the marble and carved until…
FMJRA 2.0: August Blues : The Other McCain
Posted on | March 29, 2026 | No Comments — compiled by Wombat-socho Well, it could have been worse. The Senators got swept in a two-game series against the Orioles last Tuesday, thanks mostly to the O’s powerful lineup, but then the Phillies…
Thinking About Mogadishu : The Other McCain
Posted on | March 29, 2026 | No Comments Last night, I was inspired to watch Black Hawk Down again, although I’ve seen it many times before, including during its original 2001 release. Perhaps you’ve forgotten this from 2022: Staff Sgt. Robert…