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Frome the article: Arafat also has died of a mysterious illness, according to French doctors. For the purposes of this discussion, I’m going to assume that French doctors, unlike the French military, are roughly equivalent to their American counterparts. A mysterious illness. This is really my favorite part. Think back for a moment on all the people who have died during your lifetime. Has anyone died of a mysterious illness? No, because we know what all the illnesses are. Did he have cancer? No, they checked. Heart disease? No. Poison? Nope, they checked that too. All they know is that...

So High the Price opens before our eyes the gates of hell, relying always on Scriptures and the Fathers of the Church. Vivid examples abound and the moral is ever an encouraging one for us. We who are living have the glorious opportunity of not only avoiding that very real place of torment, but of realizing that God has given us the free will to choose Him ourselves. This compact volume does not leave one fearful and trembling. But it does lead each of its readers to a stronger resolution to choose God and His heaven.

O'REILLY ACCUSER DEEP IN DEBT The DRUDGE REPORT has obtained O'Reilly accuser Andrea Mackris' financial records which show a combined debt of nearly $100,000... Developing...

FORT WORTH, Texas (BP)--A few days ago while vociferously condemning President Bush’s handling of the Iraq War, John Kerry exchanged his political rhetoric for a bit of theology, as he has become accustomed to doing lately. Kerry said Saddam Hussein was a tyrant who deserved a “special place in hell.” And the senator was absolutely right. Saddam Hussein does deserve a special place in hell. But Kerry stopped short. George W. Bush deserves a special place in hell, as does every Republican in Congress. In fact, every Republican in America deserves a special place in hell right alongside every pro-life...

JERUSALEM: A Palestinian woman suicide bomber blew herself up near a hitch-hiking post in Jerusalem yesterday, killing two people and wounding 15. The blast tore through the mainly Jewish district of French Hill in East Jerusalem, captured by Israel in the 1967 Middle East war and annexed in a move not recognised internationally. Witnesses said a young woman, wearing a headscarf, blew herself up as she approached a security position near the post used mostly by soldiers. "She threw her head back and then there was an explosion," one witness said. "A few seconds later, her body burst into flames."...

Pro-abortion Jesuit priest Robert Drinan is scheduled to speak at Villanova University, Tuesday, September 21, 2004. Contact: Rev. Edmund Dobbin, OSA President Tolentine Hall Villanova University 800 Lancaster Avenue Villanova, PA 19085 610-519-4511 edmund.dobbin@villanova.edu Dr. Barbara Wall Office of Mission Effectiveness Villanova University 800 Lancaster Avenue Villanova, PA 19085 610-519-5431 barbara.wall@villanova.edu

If there is a hell, and most likely Zell Miller believes in such a thing, than Democratic Senator Zell Miller is going to burn in it.Spin hotly on the giant griddle. For something close to eternity. Oh yes, siree. He is going to burn in hell. And the chances of hell existing have just skyrocketed, because if God exists then he's no kind of God unless he quickly fashions a hell for Democrat Zell Miller to burn in.And even if the universe exists without a God, it is far from beyond the inarticulate power of this vast mass of galaxies...

DENVER — Hell House, the controversial morality play first staged at a suburban church for Halloween, is set to be spoofed in a new stage production in Los Angeles starting Aug. 28. With Bill Maher playing Satan and Andy Richter as Jesus, the production will use the original play's script and special effects "to lampoon (Christian) fundamentalist beliefs about hell," producer Maggie Rowe said Monday. "It will be a parody of itself. It will be very funny. We're having a hoot," said Rowe, who represents the Center for Inquiry-West, which says it promotes and defends reason and science. The original...

KERRY’S POSITIVE CAMPAIGN?“Goons” Taking America To “Hell”________________________________________________________________Before Convention, Kerry Pledged Positive CampaignBefore Convention, Kerry Said He Was Running Positive Campaign. “‘I’m running a positive and constructive campaign,’ Kerry said with a smile, ‘and it’s up to the American people to make their judgment about each of us.’” (Jill Zuckman and Jeff Zeleny, “Kerry Strives To Offer Voters ‘A Better Vision’ Of America,” Chattanooga Times Free Press, 7/25/04)But Right After, Kerry And Democrats Were At It AgainTeresa Heinz Kerry Likened Bush’s Four Years In White House To Four “Years Of Hell.” “Teresa Heinz Kerry, the candidate’s wife, provided her own rejoinder...

Let me be among the first to call George Washington a goon - indeed Ben Franklin, Thomas Paine, and Samuel Adams were all celebrated goons of their time. Truly, their goonyism is an inspiration to all Americans. Let us also name the other goons who have made America great - the goons of yesteryear like Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, Dwight Eisenhower and John F. Kennedy. They were dedicated goons, one and all... And thanks to John Kerry, we can call every great American a goon! No, no, it's true - the new name for "patriot" is "goon". Let's break this...

VATICAN CITY, JULY 29, 2004 (Zenit.org).- We should take the devil "very seriously," but without losing confidence in the love of God, says the theologian of the Pontifical Household. Cardinal Georges Cottier gave this interview in the wake of last Saturday's murder of a priest in the cathedral of Santiago, Chile. The killing was linked to Satanism. Q: In the great mystery of evil, how much does the action of the devil count and how much responsibility does man bear? Cardinal Cottier: The devil is without a doubt the great seducer because he tries to lead man to sin by...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Economists searching for reasons why some nations are richer than others have found that those with a wide belief in hell are less corrupt and more prosperous, according to a report by the Federal Reserve (news - web sites) Bank of St. Louis. Researchers at the regional Federal Reserve bank acknowledged the importance of productivity and investment in the economic process but looked at some recent unconventional efforts to explain differences in national prosperity. The St Louis Fed drew on work by outside economists who studied 35 countries, including the United States, European nations, Japan, India and...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — Economists searching for reasons why some nations are richer than others have found that those with a wide belief in hell are less corrupt and more prosperous, according to a report by the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. Researchers at the regional Fed bank acknowledged the importance of productivity and investment in the economic process but looked at some recent unconventional efforts to explain differences in national prosperity. The St. Louis Fed drew on work by outside economists who studied 35 countries, including the United States, European nations, Japan, India and Turkey, and found that religion...

The Man in the White Cravat I often struggle with fear. It isn’t a run of the mill fear. It’s a fear of the man in the white cravat. A man who smokes a pipe and wears a smoking jacket often wears a cravat (sometimes called an “ascot”). It is a type of silk handkerchief that sits like a small puffy pillow in place of a tie. When Charles Spurgeon spoke of the preacher who sees one of these upper class folks in his congregation, he said, “A preacher is all on a quiver because a person [is wearing] a...

MIDI - HAPPY TOGETHER Imagine Bill and Hill, they will Koolaid drinkers think they're out of sight...that they're so tight They see them there and they believe things are all right They're sleeping together You can see they're in love, such love She's still got it an can ring his bell...yes, you can tell I must be joking when I claim she's spawned in hell They're sleeping together He will never need a fat intern again at 2 o'clock It is time we recognize their special love...it's not to mock Don't believe the things you read He's faithful and...

"The devil is still alive and active in the world. The evil that surrounds us today, the disorders that plague our society, man’s inconsistency and brokenness, are not only the results of original sin, but also the result of Satan’s pervasive and dark action." John Paul II 24 May 1987 It was during a visit to the Italian sanctuary of St. Michael the Archangel, Satan’s mighty nemesis, that the Holy Father made this statement. I doubt if he has made a more incisive declaration in his long pontificate. Today, Satan’s "dark action" perpetrated through human instruments is indeed "pervasive." To...

The annual Lenten reminder of Satan’s temptation of Christ is sure to elicit the usual bouts of devil demythologising among apostate Modernist clergy and their liberal Protestant brethren. After all, rationalising scriptural passages such as Matthew 1-11 and psychologising Satan and Hell into non-existence is their devilish raison d’etre. The raving looney apostates normally lead the charge. Like the notorious former Bishop of Evreux, Jacques Gaillot, deposed by the Pope in 1995, who told France Soir some years back that everybody was destined for Heaven because Hell was the here and now, as evidenced by calamities like Kosovo and asylum...

I teach courses in humanities and military history at Grove City College, an “enthusiastically Christian” college in rural northwestern Pennsylvania. This morning I concluded my Humanities 302 course with the Home Box Office movie Conspiracy which depicts a conference held on January 20, 1942 in a mansion in the posh Berlin suburb of Wannsee. In the dining room of this mansion, which once belonged to a wealthy Jewish businessman, SS Obengruppenfuhrer Reinhard Heydrich, hosted 14 other top Nazi officials charged with devising the final solution to the Jewish problem. In two hours, while enjoying a sumptuous buffet, they determined what...

RELIGIOUS: Hell Under Attack Americans Think Hell Exists,But No One Goes There Marian T. Horvat, Ph.D. The good Catholic prepares his soul for death and peacefully faces God and Judgment.Above, the tomb of the son of St. Louis IX in the Abbey of Royaumont. US Catholic, April 2001 Does the modern man still believe that there is life after death? Or in a Heaven and Hell? It may come as a surprise to many, as it did to me, to hear that an overwhelming majority of Americans say that they believe in a life after death, as well as...

3rd Sunday of EasterApril 25, 2004 – Cathedral of St. MaryBishop Samuel J. AquilaBishop of FargoIn our Gospel reading for this weekend we hear the threefold question, “Do you love me?” put to Peter – the apostle who denied that he knew Christ, the apostle who wept in repentance for that denial. In the threefold question, Jesus makes Peter His successor. He makes him the one who is first among the apostles. The Church ever since that time has had Peter serving her in the papacy. Each successor of Peter, and every bishop, is a Vicar of Christ. Jesus...