Year 2013
Friar Didacus and Friar Gabriel, two skateboarding brothers who were called to religious life. Limit Break, a web series, reports: The brothers skated for 7 years as teenagers, but felt their vocation was religious life. They were prepared to abandon… Continue Reading →
This video sickens me. Watch this professor at a Catholic college talk about her work as an abortion doula, set aside some time to be horrified, and then check out how the president of Mount St. Vincent’s College defends her… Continue Reading →
Pew says there are more Christians than there ever were before. Now, of course, these numbers are good for baseline information it also leaves a lot out. On the one hand, there’s an awful lot of self identified Christians that… Continue Reading →
This is what passes for argument today. A Federal Judge today ruled that NYC’s Stop and Frisk Violates peoples rights. In response, NYC’s Top Cop responded “The NYPD is the most racially and ethnically diverse police force in the world,… Continue Reading →
The AP reports this very odd piece of news. I’m thinking the judge may have overstepped his bounds a bit. A judge in Tennessee changed a 7-month-old boy’s name to Martin from Messiah, saying the religious name was earned by… Continue Reading →
Msgr. Charles Pope has a fascinating article at the blog of the Archdiocese of Washington in which he examines the effects of versus populum liturgical orientation. At the end, he advocates what I have advocated for some time, that the… Continue Reading →
It is amazing to me that Spain has financial problems. They forgot what?!?!?!? Are you serious? What goes up must walk down. In what will surely go down in history as one the greatest architectural blunders, the town of Benidorm… Continue Reading →
You just can’t trust children to tell you you’re being a bad parent. Case in point: I knew I’d been fooled last week when the kids all started thanking me right after I paid the supermarket cashier. They’d waited until… Continue Reading →
Awesome audition. 3 distinct persons in one incredible group sneak a little Latin prayer in and wow the audience. ht Deacon’s Bench. *subhead*Pie Jesu.*subhead*
This cracked me up. Watch 20 month old Ella Mae rock out some Elvis. Trust me, you need to stick around for the end. *subhead*Adorable.*subhead*