“Man towers above the rest of creation so long as he realizes his own [free, rational] nature, and when he forgets it, he sinks lower than the beasts. For other living things, to be ignorant of themselves is natural; but for man, it is a defect.” -- Boethius Muzzles...

Surely He will save you ... from the deadly pestilence. -- Psalm 91   Reign of Terror Will End   America will not descend into socialism or communism. We will, however, never be the same. But we never are. God makes each day new. We don’t get to know...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...