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A Catholic church interior with stained glass windows and religious artwork, showing a man working after renovations. Text reads: "OUR SAVIOUR PARISH NYC SEPT. 2014 AFTER WREKOVATION." The altar and pews are visible, with various question marks indicating areas of interest."

ACTION ALERT! AmChurch Meat Grinder returns to Church of Our Saviour in New York

Over the decades, I have encountered the lame, stupid, and frankly tendentious “excuses” given by the apparatchiks of destruction, the front men for the insatiable beast of hell otherwise known as AmChurch (see, e.g. this post). The most inane tripe is passed off on the authority of a position to do the most treacherous things. For instance,…

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A hand holding "The New Gaia Atlas of Planet Management" book with a colorful cover featuring an abstract design. The book is edited by Norman Myers and Jennifer Kent, with a foreword by Edward O. Wilson. The cover includes a quote from Gerald Durrell: "a blueprint for our survival."

Sustainable Development: A GLOBAL AGENDA FOR POPULATION CONTROL

The following is a reprint from the Wanderer Forum Foundation. On the heels of Laudato Si, it is important to remember from where some of the environmental movement got its strides. Unless we succeed “with our message of Urgency… We shall not be able to undertake the extensive Social Changes needed…”   From Our Common…

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A woman receives flowers and applause at a podium with "GBIO" signage in a conference room. Several people are standing and clapping, including one person raising their hand. The setting features red carpeting and wooden paneling."

Agents of Death: The Alinskyian Effort to Manage Your Life’s End

Change agents hope to transform end-of-life care with “new” values   Journalist Ellen Goodman was a 2015 National Summit on Advanced Illness Care keynote speaker for The Coalition to Transform Advanced Care (C-TAC).  She addressed the room of professionals in their personal capacity, “as mothers, as fathers, as sons, as daughters, as well as change agents…

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A vintage illustration of three guns labeled with Catholic themes: "Suffering and Sacrifice," "Prayer," "Good Example," and "Encouragement." Text describes these as weapons for spiritual conversion. The text emphasizes the power of good deeds, prayer, setting a good example, and encouragement in spreading Catholic faith."

The Marxist March Against Marriage and the Response Our Lady Asked For

A couple years ago, I posted one of the best images about marriage today and it came from the old St. Joseph Baltimore Catechism. Featuring both the worldly judge and the Eternal Judge rendering opinions of what was before them. The image shows a couple obtaining a no fault divorce, and a judge granting it to them. To…

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Breaking the Rainbow Covenant (Be Fruitful and Multiply, and Fill the Earth)

In the wake of Friday’s Supreme Court decision, purportedly accepting same sex partners to so-called marriage, an onslaught of rainbows have been posted everywhere you look online. Even the White House had rainbow colors projected onto it to make the building look like a rainbow. You’d think we had just survived the greatest flood the world has…

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Cover of The Bellarmine Forum Spring 2015 issue featuring Pope Francis in white papal attire. Text reads: "The family is also threatened by growing efforts on the part of some to redefine the very institution of marriage, by relativism, by the culture of the ephemeral, by a lack of openness to life." Headline: "In Defense of the Family"."

Magazine: In Defense of the Family. Spring 2015, Vol. V No. 1

Just in time for some of the most hostile changes afoot, our latest issue is the first entry in Volume V, which we have dedicated to defense of the family as the Church teaches. We even managed, with the help of Providence, to print the advice of our late Chairman Emeritus, Charlie Rice on defending the Catholic Faith in a hostile culture. Ripe advice for those wondering how to respond to the same sex “marriage” ruling of the Supreme Court. Don’t be afraid to proclaim the truth and God’s revelation!

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Demystifying Why There was Supernatural at Medjugorje, but not the Messages

News is circulating today about a decision having been made in the Congregation for Doctrine and Faith that the messages of Medjugorje were in fact not supernatural. Nobody should be surprised. Over the years over we’ve been burdened by smug believers of the Medjugorje phenomenon who look down their nose and lecture on the superior knowledge to be…

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Eating Gyros on Good Friday? Kiril Sends Message to Francis on the Easter Date

Being half Greek and enjoying a gyro, while at the same time enjoying the meat-free Great Lent can cause some peculiar cravings once Easter season arrives each year. My Polish half cannot fathom  Easter Sunday without ham. Kielbasa is nice, but ham. Ham. Ham with horseradish. Ham with hard boiled egg. Ham slice on babka bread. There’s always a little tension, however,…

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A Different Take on Laudato Si: The Church Could Change a Lot Directly

It shouldn’t surprise Bellarmine Forum readers that I’ll have an opinion posted here regarding Pope Francis’s Laudato Si encyclical forthcoming. Readers may not be aware of my background as a chemical engineer, environmental work (even worked for the Army Corps of Engineers on water quality), and that I was an Assistant Attorney General in Michigan for…

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A display case titled "Better Than Nature: The Pill" featuring various birth control pills and packaging. Bright, colorful background with text describing the exhibit. The display appears to be part of an educational or historical presentation on contraception, with a focus on Catholic themes."

The Inconvenient Truth for Liberals in Laudato Si

By Guest Author Terri Aluise The Vatican is set to release Pope Francis’ much anticipated encyclical Laudato Si on Thursday. A leaked draft version of the encyclical was released earlier this week and shows that Pope Francis believes that man is the primary cause of climate change. Not surprisingly, Conservatives are already in an uproar…

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