Jesuit Priest, William O'Malley: More Balls Than Conservative Christians In...
"As a priest for more than 40 years, I have yet to encounter the God who counsels, with certitude, pre-emptive slaughter in the name of peace. If President Bush's God is the real God, I'm not sure I...
View ArticleJeffferson, Adams, Education and The Survival Of Democracy
John Adamshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Adams***Â Â Â Â "Jefferson and Adams both understood that the Bill of Rights offered little protection in a nation without informed citizens. However, once...
View ArticleChesterton: "The True Object Of All Human Life..."
"The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground." G.K. Chesterton
View ArticleHitler: On Contemporary American "Conservatism"
"It gives us a very special, secret pleasure to see how unaware the people around us are of what is really happening to them." Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf
View ArticleLord Acton: On Power and The Pope
"Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Almost always, great men are bad men."Â Â Lord Acton***Lord Acton was a devout Catholic. He wrote his famous dictum on the corrupting...
View ArticleFranklin Delano Roosevelt: On Fascism
"The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to the point where it becomes stronger than the democratic state itself. That in its essence is fascism -...
View ArticleRalph Waldo Emerson: "Our Riches Will Leave Us Sick."
"Our riches will leave us sick; there will be bitterness in our laughter, and our wine will burn our mouth. Only that good profits which we can taste with all doors open, and which serves all men."...
View ArticleMiguel de Unamuno: Without A Free And Harmonious Life..."
"Without the inner beauty of a free and harmonious life, (fine food) and eau de cologne can become merely forms of barbarism. Without tolerance and broad spiritual understanding, hygiene will only make...
View ArticleWilliam Shirer: A Prophecy
"Until we go through it ourselves, until our people cower in the shelters of New York, Washington, Chicago, Los Angeles and elsewhere while the buildings collapse overhead and burst into flames, and...
View ArticleLast Month, Police Warned Navy Officials About Aaron Alexis
Priscilla Daniels, whose husband, Arthur Daniels, was killed in the mass shooting at the Washington Navy Yard, is comforted by Lynnell Humphrey, a local official who came to assist the family with...
View ArticleC.S. Lewis: The Homemaker
I am thankful Lewis did not limit "homemaker" to one sex.In that "House of Many Mansions," note that the homemaker is God, father.
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