A shooting at Austin-East Magnet School in Knoxville resulted in the injury of the school resource officer and the death of an Austin-East student. Police received a… Read more “Shooting Tragedies in Knoxville”
Author: thoughtsandprayersforthefaithful
Elijah Lovejoy Alert #8
A Shawnee State University philosophy professor has won a court appeal claiming violation of his First Amendment right to free speech after his university punished him for… Read more “Elijah Lovejoy Alert #8”
Reflections on Lumen Gentium, Part XIV
14. This Sacred Council wishes to turn its attention firstly to the Catholic faithful. Basing itself upon Sacred Scripture and Tradition, it teaches that the Church, now… Read more “Reflections on Lumen Gentium, Part XIV”
The Lying State of Journalism
The state of journalism is in serious trouble. I’m not saying anything there that others have not already said. Confidence in our media is at an all-time… Read more “The Lying State of Journalism”
Holocaust Remembrance Day
Today, April 8, is Holocaust Remembrance Day in Israel. For two minutes, the nation of Israel came to a standstill and remembered with silence the six million… Read more “Holocaust Remembrance Day”
In The News 4/8/21
Crisis at southern border continues. The crisis at the U. S.-Mexico border continues, as record numbers of migrants attempt to find refuge in the United States. Border… Read more “In The News 4/8/21”
Raphael Pubillones, Deacon Candidate
This is the next in a series I will be posting on the candidates for the permanent diaconate for the Diocese of Knoxville. My hope is that… Read more “Raphael Pubillones, Deacon Candidate”
Sen. Warnock’s Easter Tweet: “We Are Able to Save Ourselves”
Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-GA), who is also pastor of Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta (where Martin Luther King Jr served as pastor) took considerable heat over the… Read more “Sen. Warnock’s Easter Tweet: “We Are Able to Save Ourselves””
Are Secular Societies Happier?
Phil Zuckerman, sociologist and associate dean at Pitzer College in Claremont, CA, has made something of a cottage industry for himself around the meme that secular, atheistic… Read more “Are Secular Societies Happier?”
Reflections on Lumen Gentium, Part XIII
13. All are called to belong to the new people of God. Wherefore this people, while remaining one and only one, is to be spread throughout the… Read more “Reflections on Lumen Gentium, Part XIII”
Thoughts and Prayers for the Faithful 