Helping Hands Ministries

It is no easy matter to define the relative rights and mutual duties of the rich and of the poor, of capital and of labor. And the danger lies in this, that crafty agitators are intent on making use of these differences of opinion to pervert men's judgments and to stir up the people to revolt. --...

Beware lest any man cheat you by philosophy and vain deceit, according to the tradition of men, according to the elements of the world and not according to Christ. -- Paul the Apostle   The Brink of Ruin   It would be better if we were being cheated by philosophy. Instead politics is the...

Political and religious affairs are so closely united that what is taken from the spiritual weakens the loyalty of subjects and the majesty of the government — Leo XIII   Majesty of Government   Twenty two years before the twentieth century began the Roman Catholic Church once again...

Ninety percent of bar patrons pay with a credit card. Just work with the establishment owners and make a deal! — Paul LePage, former and aspiring Governor of Maine Contact Tracing   Lots of phrases and words are becoming common place in our new normal. Social distancing is one example....

When you're testing things that are unknown, you cannot guarantee it, but we're hoping that, with a number of interventions, be they compounds or antibodies ... we're hopeful, cautiously optimistic that we may have one or more of them that would provide some degree of health and therapeutic...

Touting the safety and natural bounty of Maine, Gov. Paul LePage is pushing for Chinese students and companies to come to the Pine Tree State. — Steve Collins in the Lewiston Sun Journal, May 24, 2018   Safety and Bounty   Paul LePage probably still feels like opening Maine for business...

For you know, venerable brethren, that that most deadly war which from the sixteenth century down has been waged by innovators against the Catholic faith, and which has grown in intensity up to today, had for its object to subvert all revelation, and overthrow the supernatural order, that thus the...

If the Guinness Book of Records were to track the most senseless attitude possible, the award would probably go to someone who committed suicide for fear of dying. — From an online article entitled The Most Monumental Social Engineering and Ideological Transshipment Effort in History, Part 1...

I’ve worked hard all my life to get where I’m at because I haven’t had a silver spoon handed to me. — Paul Zimmerman, owner of the Red Maple Inn in Guilford, Maine Silver Spoon Before the 1700s producing a silver spoon from one’s pocked denoted that you were a member of the land owning class. The...

What he is more than anything, perhaps, is genuine. — Abigail Curtis writing about Syd Sanders in the Bangor Daily News No Room for Love — Part 2 Two days ago I wrote about how love has disappeared in America. I can think of no better illustration of my point than “journalist” Abigail Curtis’s hit...

Today one is being excommunicated by society if one opposes it. — Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI No Room for Love Love is learned in the family. The organic or natural family begins with a father and a mother. No other arrangement is designed to work for children. They must have a father and mother...

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof — First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution Separate Government from Church On day one as Governor of Maine I would separate the state government from the Church. I would close the state’s...

These political leaders showed more faith and reverence for this model’s skewed projections than they accord to the Four Gospels. — John Horvat II in his article entitled “No One Can Oblige Us to Commit Suicide” Jezebel Janet Kills is Hiding Tucker Carlson lives in Maine. He may be “sheltering in...

The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him. — GK Chesterton   Governor Michael Stuart Heath   My earliest memories are of Maine, even though I spent my childhood in Maryland. My grandfather led Maine’s park service. I...

Facebook should stand aside and let competing opinions vie for public approval, rather than presuming to determine the truth of a complicated matter — Epoch Times article entitled “New ‘Fact Check’ Stifles Informed Debate on Virus Origin, Results in Advancing Beijing’s Agenda” CCP Virus Censorship...

While health is an important element of community life, it is not the supreme value. Neither is it an absolute right that overrides the moral good or a nation’s very existence and future. — From the article “Warning! A Virus Threatens America’s Future and Christian Civilization” Trumpian Sledge...

"When Wortman began his carnage late on April 18 by murdering his recently estranged ex-partner and her new boyfriend, authorities say he was wearing an RCMP (Royal Canadian Mounted Police) uniform and driving a mock-up of an RCMP cruiser." — Epoch Times article entitled “Nova Scotia Killer and...

"The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people.”  — G.K. Chesterton, 1910 Corona Virus:  The End of Communism We’ve believed a lie.  Identity politics, the media, entertainment and the ease of travel have created the...

The curious hate what they do not know with “anxious hatred,” wanting to reduce the number of unknowns to zero, to extinguish them. Curiosity wants new knowledge or intimacy with something so it can use that knowledge to control and dominate. — Nathaniel Peters in his article The Sin of Curiosity...

Anyone who thinks there is a need to construct complex conspiracy theories to explain what is happening is ... mistaken. — John Horvat Covidator 19 It now appears inevitable that covidmania will consume the world as we know it.  John Horvat opens his column entitled “Who Needs Conspiracy Theories...

That is the mindset of an authoritarian — Bill Donohue, The Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights American Christianity’s Ventilator American Christianity is on life support.  Franklin Graham’s organization, Samaritan’s Purse, is that ventilator.  It is clear now that even that isn’t...