Year 2013
Truth? What was my initial reaction upon hearing the news of the Pope’s resignation? I was ticked. While it is certainly possible for a Pope to resign, no Pope has done it for the last 600 years. The Papacy has… Continue Reading →
Pope Benedict is a great man with a great mind, a scholar and author with great insight. Many people waited for a man like this to be pope: deeply traditional, intelligent, able to take on today’s crises in thought and… Continue Reading →
Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, issued this statement moments after learning of the resignation of Pope Benedict XVI. Statement of Cardinal Timothy Dolan: The Holy Father brought the tender heart of… Continue Reading →
A number of international news agencies are now reporting that Pope Benedict XVI is set to resign. The BBC is reporting that the Pope is to resign at the end of this month in an entirely unexpected development, the Vatican… Continue Reading →
My seven year old son received the sacrament of reconciliation this week. The best evidence for the weak state of theological formation going on in the Archbold house I’ll tell you that on the way there he was nervous and… Continue Reading →
Patrick’s a hunter so he probably would’ve pounced on the hurt baby deer and had it cooked up into a stew by the afternoon. But one couple saw a hurt baby deer and nursed it back to health. The deer… Continue Reading →
Ex-LAPD officer Christopher Dorner who’s still on the run from a citywide manhunt posted a rambling manifesto of sorts with messages for various celebritiesincluding Tim Tebow, Ellen DeGeneres and Charlie Sheen before his murder spree. While many of his messages… Continue Reading →
What is our obsession with being in on the joke? I just went out to buy some food because we might be stuck in our house over the next few days. A woman was on the line next to mine… Continue Reading →
I have been traveling on business these past weeks (hence my light posting). I cut my latest trip short a day because if I didn’t, I don’t think I would have made it home until after the weekend. Fortunately, I… Continue Reading →
They were a tornado of plaid and elbows running out the doors of their Catholic elementary school. Four of them waved a green piece of paper above their heads excitedly but the kindergartener was just running because she doesn’t know… Continue Reading →