Novel idea: a nation belongs to its citizens

• Novel idea: a nation belongs to its citizens.
• "Why I didn't convert to Eastern Orthodoxy." My trip through it. That said, we have a lot to learn from them: grassroots traditionalism, the right kind of tribalism and congregationalism that can be a hedge against things like the ill-fated space-age modernization of Vatican II (which, believe it or not, some Orthodox are playing with). As I like to say, everything in church polity is negotiable except the papacy and the episcopate, so Catholic/Orthodox dialogue is possible and desirable. Our shared way forward: a loose communion of local churches run by custom... that includes the Pope and his share in the church's charism of infallibility. Related: When the other shoe drops.
• If society is functioning, kids from broken homes are less damaged. It's not, and hasn't been for a long time, which is why millennials are pathological.
• From MCJ: You do not want to live in a Muslim country.
  • Columbus [Indiana] Police said they’ve never had anything like it – three churches vandalized in the same night.
  • UK: More than 1,400 children were sexually abused over a 16-year period by gangs of paedophiles after police and council bosses turned a blind eye for fear of being labelled racist, a damning report has concluded. Fr. Longenecker: Why secular humanism can't cope with Islam.
  • Flying the ISIS flag.
• Talking sense about selfies: Today’s youth take a lot of pictures of themselves not because they’re different but because they can.