The Eternal Now

By Charlie Johnston Back in the day, when I was advising officials and candidates in a fluid situation that had many possible outcomes, I would give a lot of real-time focus to what we actually knew. From that, we would work on what was possible, what was likely and what was absurd. By keeping focused […]

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The Fertile Ground of Obedience

By Charlie Johnston Today (Monday, Feb. 21) is the day the Canadian Parliament will decide whether Canada will try to reclaim some vestige of liberty from newly-minted tyrant Justin Trudeau (formerly just a doofus) or join him in open warfare against the Canadian people. Today the Parliament must decide whether to revoke his assumption of […]

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Prepare for the Accounting

By Charlie Johnston We had no new podcast this week because of sickness and administrative issues. Next week we will cover some commonly asked questions that new people have about me. ********* I was deeply saddened to hear that one of our key CORAC members – and host of a presentation in eastern Iowa from […]

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Ready to Hit the Road

By Charlie Johnston On the weekly podcast Dr. Joe Brickner and I do, we have started having guests. Our first guest was the eschatologist Desmond Birch. We talked about where we really are in salvation history (kind of a palliative for the explosive effusion of sites focusing on prophecy these days). We also talked about […]

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CORAC Gears Up For a Big Year

By Charlie Johnston Today begins our CORAC fundraising drive that will carry through February 11 – both the Feast Day of Our Lady of Lourdes and the beginning of my walking pilgrimage some 11 years ago now. I spent some of last week going through the archives from this site over the last year and […]

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Darkness and Light

By Charlie Johnston The first thing to understand is that God wins. There is no doubt whatsoever about that. That being the case, there is only one question that is relevant in each of our lives. It is not whether or not the Church will survive and what we must do to save it. Nor […]

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The End of the Beginning

I wrote the following piece just a year ago – on December 14, 2020. It has held up pretty well. In this Advent Season, while many look with joyful hope to the anniversary of the birth of our Savior, there is also a profound sense of dread about what will happen when the calendar turns […]

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Weak but Willing

By Charlie Johnston My dear friend, Fr. Regis Scanlon, OFM, passed on Saturday night in Denver. He worked with St. Mr. Teresa, doing Eucharistic Formation for her nuns. What a glorious man with a lively sense of humor. Thank God we got to visit just before I hit the road – but it had to […]

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