Abraham's Journey
By Charlie Johnston I was somewhat startled at the reaction to my last piece on my disaffection with Pope Francis and his crew of theological vandals. Oh, I had a few of the usual cranks who explained to me how I am wrong about everything or citing their simplistic literal take on some prophecy to […]
Read More Truth or ConsequencesBy Charlie Johnston Pinckney, Michigan – A couple of years ago, while discussing the depravities of the abortion industry with David Daleiden, I exclaimed, “There’s no bottom to this. Every time you think you have gotten to the bottom of something you discover a whole new chamber of horrors hidden beneath what you had already […]
Read More Cast Off the Cloak of LiesBy Charlie Johnston Casselton, North Dakota – When the anti-Catholic hate group, the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, was invited to be honored before a game at Chavez Ravine, the Los Angeles Dodgers stadium, the Archdiocese of Los Angeles criticized the Dodgers for honoring the group and Archbishop Jose Gomez expressed his “disappointment, pain and dismay” […]
Read More The Fog of WarBy Charlie Johnston Credible rumblings suggest that, before the spring is over, the Pope will effectively ban the Tridentine Mass altogether. While Pope Francis has made no secret of his contempt for the Traditional Latin Mass (TLM), that may or may not be true. A classic tactic of battle, either political or actual, is to […]
Read More To Orthodox Catholic Bishops: Channel Your Inner DavidBy Charlie Johnston I have not yet seen the movie, “Nefarious,” but I intend to as soon as I finally get settled at home. Our own Sheryl Collmer, managing editor of the CORAC Newsletter, wrote a marvelous review of it for Crisis Magazine. By all accounts, the movie depicts the most realistic description in popular […]
Read More The Devil’s PlaygroundBy Charlie Johnston Shawnee, Kansas – Chatting With the Devil For over a decade I have used the Bing search engine. A few days ago, Microsoft introduced the “new” Bing. Astonishingly, it is an artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot. Instead of giving me a survey of options that could be related to my question, it just […]
Read More The Devil’s Last Stand BeginsBy Charlie Johnston Dayton, Ohio – I have watched the Ukraine-Russia war for over a year and have carefully parsed all the news and arguments coming from political types and even from some of my friends, looking to see where I might be in error in my judgment. I have come to a conclusion: Ukraine […]
Read More Some Hard Truths About Russia and UkraineBy Charlie Johnston Nashville, Tennessee – Last week my ire over the public trashing of a Bishop I care about by a man he had been a friend to led me to sin in my casual comments about SSPX. Originally, I wrongly attributed sedevacantism to them. Though that is the case with a few of […]
Read More Let Us Build Each Other UpBy Charlie Johnston (UPDATED TO REFLECT THAT SSPX AND SEDEVACANTISM ARE TWO ENTIRELY DIFFERENT THINGS WHICH ARE, IN FACT, INCOMPATIBLE WITH EACH OTHER – CJ Middletown, Delaware I watched the Super Bowl this year after ignoring it for six years. I certainly chose the right year to tune in, because the actual game was one […]
Read More End of EmpireBy Charlie Johnston As I write this, there have been 11 ballots for Speaker of the House – with no winner in sight. Though I think it will be settled by the weekend, I am glad this is happening. Modern Democrats don’t care much about policy, only power. As former Congressman Dick Armey once said, […]
Read More The Changing of the Guard
A Sign of Hope 