Comes the Sword

By Charlie Johnston “I come not to bring peace, but a sword.” – Matthew 10:34 We had a great National Conference. Bishop Strickland not only gave a great talk, but was there all three days interacting individually with people. We’ll give you a full rundown in our CORAC Newsletter at the end of the month. […]

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By the Dawn’s Early Light

By Charlie Johnston It was late in the War of 1812, September 13, 1814, to be exact, just over three months before the war was formally ended. The British had unleashed a brutal attack of rockets and incendiary shells on Ft. McHenry in Baltimore Harbor. American patriots were fearful that Ft. McHenry – and perhaps […]

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Navigating Choppy Waters

By Charlie Johnston I have Covid. Very similar to the nasty variant that nearly killed me four years ago. Not to worry, I am on day six of what took three months four years ago – and am beginning the mop-up stage of decisively banishing it. The thing that made me always think that Covid […]

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The Cobra or the Tiger?

By Charlie Johnston When I first started writing publicly about these times, I emphasized that times were coming when bumper sticker sloganeering and puerile virtue signaling were not going to cut it. One of the few good things that came out of the manufactured Covid crisis was that, when faced with the loss of their […]

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Beyond the Pale

By Charlie Johnston I have been getting increasingly disturbed by the growing anti-Israel sentiment I am finding in the ranks of traditional, pious Catholics and, to a lesser extent, among conservatives of all stripes. For a time, I interpreted this as a baffling, but growing, anti-semitism. But a dear friend who has gotten increasingly anti-Israel  […]

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Something New is Afoot

By Charlie Johnston Hayti, Missouri –  In 1978, when St. John Paul was elected Pope, I was very disturbed. For the first couple of months after his election, the media crowed that we finally had a “liberal” Pope – and things were going to change dramatically in the Church to catch it up to modern […]

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A Future and a Hope

By Charlie Johnston Waukegan, Illinois – On December 23, 2020, I wrote here that I thought the Covid Shots were likely to become the greatest medical disaster in modern history. My essay, “Embers in the Wind” is a fascinating read nearly five years later. In the first two paragraphs I vastly underestimated people’s tolerance for […]

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