By Kevin Burke, LSW On June 24, 1981, young Mirjana Soldo and 5 other children reported seeing an apparition of the Blessed Virgin Mary, with the child Jesus in her arms, on a hill just outside of the village of Medjugorje.   The apparitions and messages continue to this day. [The latest position of the Catholic Church on the apparitions: https://www.medjugorje.org/church.htm] In one encounter with Mary, Mirjana asked the blessed mother what happened to the souls of aborted children after their…

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By Kevin Burke, LSW Have you been praying and volunteering for many years on the front lines of the prolife movement and felt ignored, misunderstood, and even persecuted by your church and spiritual leaders? Are you angry, frustrated and hurt by the unfolding chaos in our country; do you ever feel powerless as the diabolical fruits of the sexual and social revolutions attack our families and communities? Are you sick and tired of the mixed messages and hypocrisy by public…

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By Kevin Burke, LSW Izabella Tabarovsky is an historian and émigré from the former Soviet Union.  She has much wisdom to share with us in this pivotal moment in our nation’s history. Tabarovsky writes in the Tablet about the culture of collective denunciation, a tool used by the communist to control their population.  She tells the story of how Nobel Prize winning author Boris Pasternak and others were punished for deviation from communist party purity: “Some of the greatest names…

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By Kevin Burke, LSW Given how the coronavirus impacts the medically vulnerable and elderly, as we ease the lockdowns and begin to open up our nation, many citizens are asking their leaders: Did we do enough to protect the most vulnerable in our communities? Many governors and city mayors took extreme measures to shut down state and local economies, to ensure that most healthy adults (who are low risk for the virus) remained sheltered in-home, with the goal of decreasing…

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by Kevin Burke, LSW … Your decision [to legalize abortion] has deformed a great nation.”   – Saint Teresa of Calcutta J. K. Rowling is the best-selling author of the Harry Potter series of novels.  In this thoughtful piece, she shares about her ongoing experience of facing vicious attacks from transgender activists and their evangelists.  Rowling does not share many of the values and goals of conservative/traditional Catholics and other Christians.  Yet, her experience in Britain speaks to the increasingly…

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Robert W. Merry writes in American Conservative: …white people…are guilty, it is said with increasing aggressiveness, for the sins of their forebears, for the racism of the past. Merry reveals that at the heart of this movement, there is a very powerful pseudo-religious dynamic at work: …And [white people] must confess their guilt and seek absolution through self-abasement.  … A young white woman on the street during the New York protests is approached by a man who identifies himself as…

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Violence, looting, rage and destruction have spread like a malignant virus across our nation.   Many in the liberal media excuse this mayhem as a necessary release of pain and righteous rage from the tragic death of George Floyd.    Check this out from Nikole Hannah-Jones, a reporter for The New York Times: Those poor minority communities that are most vulnerable to the longstanding impact of rioting, and the good men and women trying to raise families and better their lives,…

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