Abraham's Journey
By Charlie Johnston Omaha, Nebraska – I departed home yesterday for my latest missionary tour. About 70 miles northeast of Denver, a prairie fire swept across the road just before Wiggins, Colorado. After sitting for 15 minutes in the backed-up traffic, my GPS announced that the road ahead was now closed. Taking a gander at […]
Read More The Revolting Jezebel RevoltBy Charlie Johnston “Woe unto the world because of offenses! For it must needs be that offenses come, But woe to that man by whom the offence comes.” -Matthew 18:7 On Friday, July 5, the Vatican found Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano guilty of schism and excommunicated him. Vigano’s criticism of Pope Francis and the […]
Read More OffensesQuaecumque Sunt Vera By Charlie Johnston In mythology, when sunlight bursts into a dark lair of vampires, a great shrieking and furious snarling fills the air as the vampires perish. I can’t help but notice that there is a lot of shrieking and snarling coming from the left lately. The American Spectator’s Scott McKay thinks […]
Read More Whatsoever is TrueBy Charlie Johnston Thoughts from my sojourn at Mt. Meeker during the eclipse… When I was doing radio back in the late 80’s through the mid-90’s it drove me bananas that all the media would judge a legislative session by how many new laws it passed. I was insistent that a legislature should rather be […]
Read More Intellectual and Moral EclipseBy Charlie Johnston Missoula, Montana – Never. Period. I wrote a week or so ago about my very pleasant experience last year touring the grounds of the Mission of Divine Mercy near San Antonio. The people were solid and faithful and focused on Christ, it seemed to me. I liked them. I also noted that, […]
Read More When Does Christ Call us to Reject Legitimate Authority, Legitimately Exercised?By Charlie Johnston South Haven, Michigan – As we enter more deeply into this Lenten season, many Catholics are shaken as it becomes undeniable that the call for sinful dysfunction is coming from inside the house. The Pope is a hot mess who calls for tolerance and inclusion as he stamps out any meaningful dissent […]
Read More In Spirit and in Truth: The Crisis in the ChurchBy Charlie Johnston This Christmas has a distinctive “Last Supper” vibe to it. Almost everyone I know believes we are at the very edge of starkly world-changing events in every aspect of society and culture. It is both striking and unsettling. I also believe it is right. We are like animals in the forest before […]
Read More The Christmas of Our DiscontentBy Charlie Johnston Boy, do I miss the days when the question, “Is the Pope Catholic?” was just rhetorical. These last few months of Francis’ Papacy have reminded me of the closing sequence of The Godfather. In those scenes Michael Corleone piously stands as godfather at his nephew’s baptism, while his henchmen kill off all […]
Read More How Low Can We Go?By Charlie Johnston Tyler, Texas – It is nearly three years since I and a group of CORAC members attended the J6 protests in Washington, D.C. I wrote my angry piece about the coverage of it a few days later -and people are still warning me that I am under surveillance and that I had […]
Read More Cast Into the DeepBy Charlie Johnston Mico, Texas – Early in his pontificate, Pope Francis said he wanted to, “make a mess,” and urged young people to do the same. With the normalization of transgenderism in the Church and the approval for blessing same sex unions, combined with the dismissal of two orthodox Bishops for vague or no […]
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A Sign of Hope 