The Collected Thoughts of the Zappe Family

I got something interesting in the mail. It was a letter from the American Life League. One that went out to probably anyone that's ever gotten on a pro- life mailing list. They, of course used a fairly standard method of providing the most shocking information to illicit a donation from me. They really didn't need to since the existence of abortion is enough to make a persons stomach turn. What caught my attention was the snippets they included from a Planned Parenthood book. It is of course the book that my tax dollars pay for them to print none the less.

When I was a child, my old parish priest taught me that there are eight sacraments: the eighth is ignorance. And the eighth saves more than all the others together.
- Fr Amorth

From The Reform of the Rite of Exorcism

Gen. Kevin Chilton, the head of STRATCOM, just declared that the Law of Armed Conflict will apply to cyberwar, and that the US won't rule out conventional (read: kinetic) responses to cyber-attacks.

"Lord, you return gladly and lovingly to lift up the one who offends you, but I do not turn to raise and honor the one who annoys me." ~ St. John of the Cross

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This is a great little video that shows a Anglican Vicar living as a hermit by the Monastery of Saint Anthony. It's a full hour, but it's well worth the time — something I rarely say about video.

One of my good friends recently said that "One of my biggest pet peeves is that Catholic adults have the knowledge of a child about their faith." To some extent I really wish that was true. A child's knowledge leads them to love Christ for what He did for them, and to trust in the teaching of His Church. What happens is that adult ideas that pose for knowledge come in and drown out the simple knowledge that should enlighten our every action: "Salvator mundi, salva nos, qui per crucem et resurrectionem tuam liberasti nos."

Easter is here and we celebrate the rising of Christ to new life, His conquering death forever. All of our hope lies in this one event that arrived 2000 years ago! So let us rejoice for this more than anything!

One of the great and beautiful moments of the Easter Vigil is the singing of the Gloria and the ringing of the bells. Here is a beautiful video of that moment:

Many people seem to have decided a couple of things about down syndrome. They've decided that living with down syndrome can't possibly be a life worth living (so killing them is somehow better) and that people with down syndrome are a drain on society (so again killing them is better). The going conclusion by a vast majority of society is that people with down syndrome don't deserve to live. An excuse for an abortion, for killing the non perfect among us. Yet the truth tends to seep through when you're not paying attention.