go to Mass. ~

_A pair of suicide bombings struck southern Beirut on Thursday, killing 43 people and leaving shattered glass and blood on the streets, Lebanese authorities said. At least 239 others were wounded, according to state-run National News Agency. … And at the Hungary-Serbia border in September, at least a few of the European countries are, finally, starting to do what should have been done in France 30 years ago.

_ In which Dorothy gets her Polish-o-phile on._ ~ Just kidding! Since I thought you’d all be depressed, I’ve decided show you a video of a young Catholic priest in Warsaw leading 50,000 Catholics (some devout!) in loud chants of “Ewangelia, a nie koran!” which means, “The Gospel, not the Koran.” Most of you won’t understand anything except the many references to ++Jezus Chrystus++, but it will probably cheer you up anyway.

“What was hope?” ~ Up late last night, listening to Sky’s live feed coverage and was reminded of the coverage of Princess Diana’s death… bit like this: ~

Oliander: ISIS tweeters say Rome, London and DC are next Nothing to see here… Agence France-Presse ‏@AFP 1h1 hour ago #BREAKING Paris attacks a ‘violation of all religions’: Saudi Foreign Minister ~ Does George Soros Want Revolution in Europe? “National sovereignty remains an obstacle to the activist billionaire’s open borders agenda.” ~ Victor Orban seems to be pretty comfortable saying it out loud: “…lashed out at billionaire George Soros who he says is responsible for the continent-wide epidemic.

Steve left a comment on FB after I went to bed last night that I think we can put money on: ~ _“Tomorrow, the narrative that what happened in Paris has nothing to do with true Islam will be echoed by the global elites. Pope Francis will join them, failing, once again, to lead Catholics in the truth, and lending religious credibility to the great Islamic lie. “This will also help to ensure that those Parisians, Frenchmen, Europeans, and others throughout the world will not look to Catholicism as the answer to the Islamic threat, because it is feckless, dishonest, and pathetic.

  A commenter writes: As an Irishman, Papism is in my blood. Irish Ultramontanism was pretty legendary and for good reason, but not for the reason most people think…The English had driven out our native aristocracy and over the ages of persecution and disenfranchisement, the priesthood was our only recourse of social leadership, the Pope was the only one who we could find succour and call our king.

A comment from FB: When I first started working in show biz, it was run by elderly Jewish men and middle-aged Jewish men. I really enjoyed those years. It was because of those men that we had the Family Hour and other family programming. And TV was smart, because they liked smart. In the going on four decades that I have worked in television, it has been taken over by mostly gay guys.

I live in Scotland which, until the 1990s, suffered from deep divisions in areas where there were enough Catholics to annoy the Protestant majority. In the 20th century Christmas was all but illegal–which is why the Scottish New Year’s Eve is such a big traditional deal–and Catholic Scots, like their Presbyterian neighbours, worked at least a half-day on the 25th of December until the end of the 1950s. There was a hiring system that meant that grads of Catholic schools sat at the bottom of the career ladder.

“….Accordingly he did so; upon which Gianotto, seeing that he had returned, and hoping nothing less than that he should have become a Christian, came and rejoiced greatly at his return, and after some days of rest asked him what he thought of the Holy Father, the cardinals, and the other courtesans; to which the Jew promptly replied, “It seems to me evil that God should have given anything to all those people, and I say to you that if I know how to draw conclusions,