@JdmMeuse Your attempt to capitalise off of Fr Benjamins death is disgraceful. Did you know him? Are you a regular Mass attendant in Cape Ann? Many of us that did know him are shocked and the last thing I’m interested in seeing are a shallow politicians talking points. Pax et Bonum
What an appalling speech the Mayor of New York delivered for the 250th anniversary of the nation.
Sadly, it reflects the view of America propagated for years by Howard Zinn and his like-minded colleagues in the universities and believed by armies of the young: a dark, oppressive country where common people are denigrated by tyrants and oligarchs, where immigrants are treated with contempt, where those with “soft hands” hold the wealth created by those with dirty hands.
No sensible person would claim that our country is without flaws, but the relentlessly negative picture painted by Mayor Mamdani is just absurd.
And it is the fruit of the Marxism that, sadly, is all the rage today.
🔥 HELL YEAH! A pilot just used his airplane to draw a USA 250th banner using his flight path
It took him over FIVE HOURS of flying time to do this.
What a PATRIOT! 🇺🇸
She Just Won $150,000 — And She's Going Where?
This young champion just shocked the room by choosing a small Catholic school over the Ivy League or big state schools.
The people at Wyoming Catholic College must be ecstatic.
The look on President Trump's face is priceless.
@stoolpresidente I’m sipping an iced coffee with the AC at 68° while looking out from my deck at the Atlantic Ocean. Later I’ll go for a nice swim to cool off. The French can eat cake! If NYC had natural gas pipelines they could power their ACs.
@EricLDaugh I’ve worked in construction most of my life. I saw many of my peers leave the industry because their wages were undercut by companies hiring illegals. These were large well known companies that were routinely getting government contracts.
Like many others, I have been alarmed by the success of certain politicians in our country who identify as extreme socialists or communists.
This is not a matter of classical liberals triumphing over standard-issue conservatives; this is the victory of people who stand athwart the fundamental principles that undergird our country.
There are many reasons why I detest Communism, but I want to draw attention to just one issue of supreme importance.
Karl Marx said that the first critique is the critique of religion. He meant that, before a complete re-working of the politics and economics of a society can take place, religion has to be taken down.
This is because religion, as he saw it, is the “opium of the masses,” a drug taken to dull our sensitivity to the suffering caused by economic exploitation. As long as the suffering populace is lured into complacency by fantasies about God's providence and the promise of eternal life, they will never rise up and throw off their chains.
But there is a second reason why the elimination of religion is of paramount significance for Marx.
Communism aspires to be a totalizing system, involving the government's control over education, entertainment, communication, politics, and especially economics.
What stands resolutely athwart this ambition is religion, which declares that all of these societal expressions are finally under the judgment of God. So, if you want Communism to succeed, religion has to be stamped out.
If you doubt me on any of this, I would encourage you to read the recent histories of China, Russia, Cuba, Nicaragua, Vietnam, Cambodia, and Venezuela. Revisit those histories and tell me I'm wrong about the attack on religion.
Might I encourage my fellow believers in God not to be complacent in the face of this very troubling development in the American body politic?
Remember when American liberals and Euro socialists told us to boycott the World Cup because of Trump?
Remember when these same idiots claimed nobody would come and ticket sales would suck?
We just set a FIFA World Cup attendance record! 3.6M million soccer fans to date. The highest-ever in the history of the tournament! 🌎❤️
Take from that what you will.