One of the Family

By Charlie Johnston Things are starting to take shape. By the end of the week, CORAC will be formally registered as a non-profit. Sometime shortly thereafter, we will have a dedicated bank account that can accept donations and pay bills. The database is being mounted as we speak. At least a spreadsheet will go out […]

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Feed My Lambs

By Charlie Johnston During the Q & A session of a presentation I was giving in the spring of 2016, someone in the southwestern crowd rose to say that she thought Donald Trump was God’s plan for America. I was not a Never Trumper, but at the time I was decidedly skeptical about the Donald. […]

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On Viruses and Covid-19

[[[MAJOR UPDATE EDIT on 12/31/20: Since the publication date of this post, I have continued to refine my paper on Covid and have also shortened it considerably now that most of the educational part of the original paper is no longer needed. I have also created my own website and moved the paper there. Please […]

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Cry the Beloved Country

By Charlie Johnston One of the things that this Corona Virus business has illuminated, but is rarely commented on, is that there are reasonable precautions we could have and should have been taking all along to defend vulnerable populations from the ravages of ordinary flu seasons. In the aftermath of all of this, I seriously […]

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Good Friday – Epitaph Revisited

Ecce Homo – Antonio Ciseri I repeat today my little story from the original Holy Week What follows is fiction. I used the literary device of an archaeological find, but it is fiction entirely from my meditation on the Crowning of Thorns. This is NOT definitely what happened with Pilate, but merely my meditation on […]

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Merry Christmas to All

(I had planned to do a piece on the relationship between Jesus and Mary today – but the cold I have been battling has gotten nasty. Say a little prayer for me if you would – I am napping a lot today in hopes that I will be able to sing at Midnight Mass tonight. […]

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A Change of Venue

I will have a piece up later tonight, but in the meantime, Los Angeles area readers need to know that the venue for tomorrow’s talk has changed. The talk will begin at 1 p.m. Pacific time. We will be at: Grace Lutheran Church 4427 Overland Ave. Culver City, California 90230 If you are in the […]

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Signs of Contradiction

By Charlie Johnston At a recent Mass, the Priest (a man in minor authority, no less) gave a very thinly veiled endorsement for open borders, while informing all of us it was our duty to protest for the same. He started by explaining that in heaven we will all be the same, no difference in […]

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