Author Patrick Archbold
I am beginning to think that Maureen Martin might be a long lost sister of ours. Perhaps we will have to talk with Mom. Either we are related or her similarly twisted mind reflects the cumulative results of centuries of… Continue Reading →
Gerald Augustinus is a popular blogger who runs one of the best named blogs in the Catholic blogosphere, The Cafeteria is Closed. The title of his blog is a direct reference to Cafeteria Catholicism. Namely picking and choosing, like one… Continue Reading →
72-year-old Norman Schmidt is not a good guy. Schmidt was recently convicted of serious white collar crimes including: [USnews]According to the Department of Justice, hundreds of investors gave Schmidt tens of millions of dollars. Schmidt and others said they would… Continue Reading →
Newly elected Conservative mayor of London Boris Johnson says that enough to the secular wall established against Christian groups has got to go. In an interview in Religious Intelligence, the Mayor said that the good work done by Christian groups… Continue Reading →
Goshen College student, Emily Miller shows off her support for her candidate for president on the door of her dorm room. (Antonio Perez, Chicago Tribune / April 29, 2008)I am not sure if it will help him much, but Barack… Continue Reading →
cognitive dissonance –noun Psychology. anxiety that results from simultaneously holding contradictory or otherwise incompatible attitudes, beliefs, or the like Professional progressive Fr. Richard McBrien in his most recent column displays a very striking (and humorous) cognitive dissonance when it comes… Continue Reading →
Doctors Deciding Who Dies—Are You On the List? Church Guilty of “Gender Apartheid”—Yes, this WomynPriest is called the Rosa Parks of the Church The Case For Chaos—When it comes to communion, I take ugly and anonymous over the orderly. Christian… Continue Reading →
Catholic blogs take issue with many different things. CMR is no exception. Most of the time, we take exception with patently preposterous, the harebrained, or heretical. Less frequently (amounting to never) do we look at something from a pastoral perspective…. Continue Reading →
Christian Minister: We Don’t Need Jesus—Jesus was a “Middle Eastern peasant with a few charismatic gifts and a great posthumous marketing team.” Fr. McCartney on the Giuliani Debacle—Imagine you go to the doctor for your annual check-up, but the doctor… Continue Reading →
Slippery slope arguments tend to not to be a convincing line of debate. However sometimes they are right on. Let’s go back a few centuries an imagine a time just after the reformation. Imagine a Catholic voice arguing that a… Continue Reading →