I remain convinced of the utter necessity of reforming many branches of the Catholic Church, especially the American, Brazilian, German and Dutch ones, to clear them of the so-called Liberals. People who don't like the kind of thing that the Catholic Church has been for 1900 years have, these days, a supermarket's worth of alternative products to ( Read more... )

Archbishop Charles Chaput of Denver, US, has written a long and magnificent pastoral letter on the duties of a Christian at election time. It is so wholly grounded in Catholic belief that anyone who does not take Catholic doctrine seriously would get nothing from it; but to anyone who does, this letter may well come as a revelation. Personally, I ( Read more... )

I loathe both candidates. It is not merely that they are personally unattractive, although they certainly are; Bush with his fake Texas good ole boy manners learnt at Harvard, and Kerry with a hypocrisy so profound and elaborate that people do not even notice it, as you do not pay attention to the existence of the earth beneath your feet and the ( Read more... )

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One of the more sickening events of the last few days was Candidate Kerry shouting to a mindlessly cheering audience: "I am John Kerry, and I am - reporting - for - DUTY!!" Forget that there are doubts about his supposed heroic record; forget that this Vietnam vet, who is now using his record as an officer to promote himself as a super-patriot to ( Read more... )

I have been having a restless and unsatisfied week, working little and eating way too much. Today I also had to reach an extremely painful decision, putting an end to contact with someone very close to me and for whom I care very much, but who is bent on drawing me in the chaos that is his life and sucking in my extremely scarce resources in ( Read more... )