Month October 2008
The following is a letter from Cardinal Egan which appeared in Catholic New York. Read it. It’s the single best pro-life plea I’ve read in a long time. Here it is: Just Look The picture on this page is an… Continue Reading →
Well it is about time. An editor of a metropolitan newspaper read a column in her own paper, was taken aback by the partisan nature of it and decided to put her foot down. There was no way that she… Continue Reading →
Wanna Be In A Video With Fr. Barron?—Fr Barron will be taping a new video and is looking for some folks. New Classical Church Architecture—A special event with noted traditional architect Thomas Gordon Smith. Nightmare Scenario: White Liberal Riot—The sad… Continue Reading →
CMR readers are no doubt familiar with Fr. Barron, whose videos from the Word On Fire ministries have appeared many times right here. Father Barron will be taping a new video on the Eucharist this weekend and is looking for… Continue Reading →
The Liturgical Institute in Mundelein has announced a special event on October 30th with noted traditional Catholic church architect Thomas Gordon Smith. Smith teaches at the University of Notre Dame’s School of Architecture and is the architect of the Our… Continue Reading →
There have been numerous nightmare scenarios written should either one of the candidate’s in this year’s presidential election actually win. Some have even spoken of riots should Obama lose. But nobody has taken into account the specter of the of… Continue Reading →
This anecdote, by William Pike, comes to us by way of the Encyclopedia Britannica Blog (who knew?). My wife, who works in education, was sitting in on a world history class at one of our county’s public high schools last… Continue Reading →
Catholic Cover For Partisan Politics Part II—Mark Shea and the Catholic fence sitters. Shock Poll: Dems Favor Obama—Pollsters interview 15 percent more Dems than Republicans. The Second Slumming—A poem from the perspective of the “conservative” elite. Playing For A Tie—Maybe… Continue Reading →
Some weeks back I wrote a piece critiquing Mark Shea‘s position regarding voting for McCain. Mark says that voting for McCain is a grave matter and potentially sinful based upon the other criteria for sin. This has resulted in Mark,… Continue Reading →
The latest Pew poll has Barack Obama up a whopping 14 points! Insert your despair here but…(and this is a big but) look at the internals of the poll. Here’s the thing the media won’t tell you about this poll:… Continue Reading →