Abraham's Journey
I was deeply moved by the letter of this young Italian girl, Sara Mansardo, to the Bishops on the occasion of the Synod on Youth. It was highlighted in the Moynihan Letters. It speaks of the hunger of young people – of all people – for the meat of sound doctrine, the doctrine that gives […]
Read More An Italian Girl’s Appeal to the BishopsBy Charlie Johnston I once had a candidate who was intensely focused on polls. He would ask me several times a day what new polls I had seen on his race. He knew I did not put near as much stock in polls as most operatives did (except for issue and messaging questions – which […]
Read More There Will be Polls and Rumors of PollsBy Charlie Johnston “The farther back you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see” – Winston Churchill “Believe Women” is the latest mantra of the left – no matter how absurd an individual woman’s story is, you must believe it because she is a woman. We’ve been here before. In the […]
Read More Believe Evidence – Short TakesBy Charlie Johnston Today is the National Rosary Rally, sponsored by the Holy League. It culminates the 54-day Novena for our Nation. It has been a tumultuous time. May God shed his grace on us. ******* I have been a little under the weather. I broke a tooth off at lunch on Wednesday and spent […]
Read More Defining Deviancy DownBy Charlie Johnston Last Sunday was a very important anniversary – the first of the great Revelation 12 event of a year ago, the event I count as the beginning of Rescue. Fr. Richard Heilman wrote a magnificent piece on the subject a few days before it arrived. Thirteen days after this great sign appeared […]
Read More Then War Broke Out in HeavenBy Charlie Johnston On Tuesday, Texas held a special election for a State Senate seat that sprawls from San Antonio deep into west Texas. A deeply Hispanic district, it had been held by Democrats for the last 139 years – and the Democrat generally won with 55-60% of the vote. The establishment media chuckled that […]
Read More Real Votes, Fatima, and Other Signs of HopeBy Charlie Johnston I speak occasionally about “first principles,” those fundamental principles which, if you get solidly embedded in your mind, will guide you effectively in just about any circumstance. A corollary in examining an issue would be “first questions,” those questions that get to the heart of a matter with direct simplicity. One of […]
Read More Is It Just? – Short TakesBy Charlie Johnston I got the following reply from my US Senator, Cory Gardner, chairman of the foreign relations committee, in response to my advocacy for Kyle McCarter to be confirmed as US Ambassador to Kenya: “Thank you for contacting me regarding presidential appointments. I appreciate you taking the time to write. It is an […]
Read More Whither We are TendingBy Charlie Johnston It was St. Augustine’s Confessions that sparked my conversion to Catholicism nearly three decades ago. In the summer of 1990 I had spent a lot of time reading Reformation-era thinkers; Erasmus, John Donne, St. John of the Cross and Martin Luther, even excerpts from King Henry VIII’s defense of Catholicism written just […]
Read More The Love of My LifeBy Charlie Johnston A week and a half into the accusations leveled by Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, some patterns are becoming clear. Vigano and those who support him cite verifiable evidence, facts and timetables. The defenders of the Pope just smear the accusers and try to change the subject. Chicago’s Cardinal Blase Cupich said […]
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A Sign of Hope 