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Welcome to Armageddon

by Charlie Johnston | Oct 23, 2026 | Conversion, Discernment, Culture, A Sign of Hope, The Church, The Storm, Triumph of the Immaculate Heart

Libertyville, Illinois – I’ve been in the Chicago area this week, my old stomping grounds. It is nice to revisit the place where you grew up and spent the bulk of your early life in. You know it with an intimacy you’ll never have with any other place. As a boy, I used...

And the Winners Are…

by Charlie Johnston | Oct 16, 2026 | CORAC, Culture, Establishment Media, A Sign of Hope, Scandals, Signs of Hope

Okay, I’m ready. At the bottom of this article I will make my predictions for this election cycle. More often than not, when I make formal predictions, I am eerily on target, picking up on huge undercurrents that no one else does. My best performances were, 1) in...

The Gettysburg Election

by Charlie Johnston | Oct 8, 2026 | Discernment, Culture, A Sign of Hope, The Storm

Sometime in the next couple of weeks I am going to publish my final thoughts on the midterm elections. Back when I was doing radio I would do this for 12-15 races every cycle. It was kind of weird. I got everything right, including upsets no one saw coming, except for...

Analytical Overdrive

by Charlie Johnston | Oct 2, 2026 | A Sign of Hope, Geopolitics, The Storm

(This is, by far, the longest post I have ever written here. I won’t blame you at all if you don’t read all of it. I thought of shortening it, but then I thought it would be useful for you to see some of the highlights of how I approach topics for analysis. If you...

Laying Down the Trump Card

by Charlie Johnston | Sep 14, 2026 | Conversion, Discernment, Announcements, CORAC, Culture, Encouragement, A Sign of Hope, Prolife, Spiritual Preparation, The Church, The Storm, Triumph of the Immaculate Heart

Just over a month ago I told my son about Trump Accounts for the kids. Frankly, these are the greatest things since Harry met Sally. Because they give a seed deposit of $1,000 for every child enrolled who was born on or after Jan. 1, 2025, some folks have gotten the...