Abraham's Journey
By Charlie Johnston The Texas woman, Carolyn Jones, who had basic care denied her by Memorial Herman Southwest Hospital in Houston has been rescued. Texas Right-to-Life (TRTL) worked frantically to raise $50,000 to facilitate a transfer yesterday, actually raising a little over $33,000. Even as they were raising the money, they were working to […]
Read More The Prayer of Doing__________________________________________ Updates and Alerts for 5/16/19: We are pleased to announce a new Page in our Menu area. Mary has created a list of upcoming presentations Charlie will be making over the next few months. She will be updating our new Travels with Charlie Page frequently, so please remember to check the page often. This […]
Read More Still Hope for Texas Woman Being Euthanized“And Saul was consenting to his death” (Acts 8:1) (Once again, a woman who wants to live is being forcibly euthanized by Texas hospitals, contrary to her family’s wishes. Carolyn Jones’ family has found three facilities which would continue to give her care, but Texas has a hideous rule: if a hospital gives a patient […]
Read More Texas Bishops Yawn as Hospitals Forcibly Euthanize Another Patient Who Wants to LiveBy Charlie Johnston We are booked pretty solid through late June for my speaking tour this year – in the Midwest, New England, and New York. Come mid-July I have some stops in Florida. There is a little hole in the first half of July. I can use this to visit longer with family, but […]
Read More The New Tower of Babel – Short Takes(About a year ago, on a Church rack, I discovered a little pamphlet of prayers for the “Little Office of The Immaculate Conception.” I do not say it all the time, but at certain times, I find it very soothing and helpful with my focus. As we go forward, some little groups may find this […]
Read More Where Two or Three are Gathered…By Charlie Johnston The Russian Collusion Hoax is dead. A very hostile and partisan team of prosecutors was unable to find anything they were willing to put their necks on the line for in formal accusations against Pres. Donald Trump. Even so, Congressional Democrats and the establishment media are determined to play political alchemists, hoping […]
Read More May Shapes Up to be Very Consequential – Short TakesBy Charlie Johnston In law, the “Reasonable Man Standard” is used most often in liability cases but has been used through the centuries in common law where statutes are ambiguous or non-existent. It simply asks a jury or judge to determine what a reasonable man would have done, under particular circumstances. It has been a […]
Read More A Christian Approach to Immigration: Precepts of a Reasonable Man #1By Charlie Johnston Some years back I was visiting my son when the local Bishop celebrated Mass at his Parish and then stayed for a rather lengthy reception. My son was standing by the punch bowls when the Bishop took a short break to come get a drink. Young Charlie looked at him with a […]
Read More Real People, Real Faith, Real Hope – Short TakesI 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 what MIGHT have happened with […]
Read More EpitaphBy Charlie Johnston The symbolism in the fire that destroyed much of Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris on the first day of Holy Week is so starkly obvious that almost everyone, including secular commentators, have opined about it. It is a metaphor both for the faithlessness that stalks the Church and for the precipitous decline […]
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