Abraham's Journey
By Charlie Johnston Just over a month ago I told my son about Trump Accounts for the kids. Frankly, these are the greatest things since Harry met Sally. Because they give a seed deposit of $1,000 for every child enrolled who was born on or after Jan. 1, 2025, some folks have gotten the mistaken […]
Read More Laying Down the Trump CardBy Charlie Johnston Golden, Colorado – I was up in Colorado to give a talk last Sunday. I was pretty pleased, as we had plenty of old friends, a good chunk of new ones, and a lot of energy. I told them that, though the Triumph of the Immaculate Heart is on the horizon, they […]
Read More Renewal Starts From WithinBy Charlie Johnston I have been working deeply on what I think is a key project. We are in perilous times, but like Charles Dickens’ “A Tale of Two Cities,” it is very much both the best of times and the worst of times. I think we are on the verge of having the fulness […]
Read More The Pursuit of TruthBy Charlie Johnston Fifty years ago, during the Bicentennial year,. I was a young aide to Congressman Robert McClory. I was his driver and wrote some speeches and such for him. He spent most of his weekends in the district and the week in Washington. He left his car at a hotel he used during […]
Read More Forever May She WaveIn the brief run-up to the American Civil war between Abraham Lincoln’s inauguration and the start of hostilities, the new president was visited by a host of “peace committees,” urging him to let the rebellious states go in peace, forming two countries from one. Lincoln believed such a peace would only be illusory, setting off […]
Read More Birthing PainsBy Charlie Johnston In the early morning hours of Friday, May 1, 2026, Bishop Rene Henry Gracida entered eternity a little more than a month before what would have been his 103rd birthday. Bishop Gracida was the author of the Blog, Abyssus Abyssum Invocat (Deep Calls to Deep) – which was also his episcopal motto. […]
Read More Bishop Rene Gracida Passes Into EternityBy Charlie Johnston Our community lost one of its charter supporters and friends to begin Lent. Anne Baker passed away at 101 in the assisted living facility where she had been in Florida for the past couple of years on the morning of Ash Wednesday. Anne was the mother of our dear friend and chief […]
Read More TransitionsBy Charlie Johnston I have always been a big believer in what I call “First Things,” foundational principles which you then use as your interpretive template on all extrapolations. (Imagine my delight when, in 1990, the late Fr. Richard Neuhaus founded First Things Magazine – a profoundly orthodox Judeo-Christian publication that often has profound intellectual […]
Read More Get the First Principles Right…and All Else will Flow ClearlyBy Charlie Johnston Long ago I saw that, at a decisive moment, our technology would fail. I’m no Luddite. I do not regard technology as either intrinsically evil or intrinsically good. It is just a tool which, like any other tool, can be wielded by its user for either good or evil. But we withhold […]
Read More Prepare For a Great BlessingBy Charlie Johnston Well, the USCCB, which could not bring itself to making a loud, full-throated call to support life, oppose transgender ideology, promote the traditional family and Biblical definition of marriage, has finally found something it can be full-throated about: demanding that American taxpayers cover all expenses for illegal aliens and quit the “indiscriminate […]
Read More Woe to the USCCB (Matthew 23:4)
A Sign of Hope 