A Catholic, Republican and a monarchist walk into a bar. "What'll it be, sir?" (Formerly DC Catholic)
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For even though I have been bound in the name, I have not yet been perfected in Jesus Christ. For now I have merely begun to be a disciple and am speaking to you as my fellow learners. For I have needed you to prepare me for the struggle in faith.
Ignatius
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Atheism has no response.
Not every prayer needs an audience.
God sees the quiet ones. 🙏
Credit: @nobye.ai (Instagram)
Original: instagram.com/p/DfejpeuDcLq/
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When I was a boy my uncle and I were wrestling once on a trampoline, and he broke my arm. He said he'd make it up to me on my birthday. I never saw him again.
For years I thought it was my fault, but it turns out he was just living his best life doing drugs.
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“Um homem viveu, há séculos, no Oriente. E eu não posso olhar para uma ovelha, uma andorinha, um lírio, um campo de trigo, uma vinha, uma montanha, sem pensar nEle.”
~ G. K. Chesterton
Rebrand! Thank you for following DC Catholic over the last year! But as my time in DC runs shorter and the original intent of this account as a Catena Aurea blog has been lost, I've decided to rebrand to my twin historical loves, the Habsburg Dynasty and Warren G. Harding!
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This is genuinely the worst thing I've read in weeks
BONES attributed to Saint Nicholas, Bishop of Myra, kept since 1098 in Saint-Nicolas-de-Port, in Meurthe-et-Moselle, were STOLEN from their reliquary inside the basilica, then DESTROYED.
The suspect, arrested at his home, admitted to SMASHING the display case protecting the reliquary, then stealing its contents, BURNING the bones and CRUSHING them out of a “desire to destroy.”
(Source: L'Est Républicain)
It's a shame that a heretical group now parades his name, because Pope Pius X was easily the best pope of the last 200 years.
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Perfect place for an empire
Crazy that nobody ever thought about that
If a democracy is easy to manipulate, the question then becomes, "how do we make sure our head of state does know what he's doing?"
Monarchies of old already figured this out. The monarch's children were diligently trained by the most educated to be good statesmen and to be virtuous and even-handed. Power became a duty to be executed rather than an ambition to be realized.
The fatal flaw in democratic systems that it entirely depends on the average voter understanding policy. Economics is an extraordinarily complicated topic, and most people will not comprehend it. This creates a vulnerability in which sweet-sounding but objectively terrible policies can be put forward by dishonest hucksters without fear of anyone calling them out on it.
The average and below average of a population is always going to be the majority. If you insist on democracy, you are subjecting yourself to their whims. Or, more accurately, the whims of those most capable of manipulating them.
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German calligraphy of the first chapter of the book of Sirach, 1654
A lot of talk about Iran War and gas... but what 2026 actually showed was that voters are ready to move on from the Trump Era. Republicans lost because they tied themselves to their incumbent, unliked, and term-limited president. 2028 is wide open, but voters want something new. Choosing Vance would be the biggest possible mistake.
On election night, @JDVance’s phone buzzed.
A confidant texted with uncomfortable advice: perhaps he should consider sitting out 2028.
Some allies now tell the VP they no longer believe any Republican can win a presidential election in two years.
Story with @natalieandrews:
wsj.com/politics/elections/j…
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If a White politician said: "My brother and I, we are proud and we are boys. We are Proud Boys", there would probably be calls for expulsion right now.
Wow, the lead ten years ago was genuinely perfect. Now it's a leftist essay of how mean the GOP is.
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Scott Colom, who will likely be Mississippi's next senator, will be the first pro-life Democrat in the Senate since Bob Casey decided he was no longer pro-life in 2022.
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