St. Nicholas Feastday is December 6th. He is the patron of Bakers and Pawnbrokers Who’d a thunk it? Far from being fat and jolly, it is believed that from his earliest days…
In an op-ed yesterday published in the Chicago Sun-Times, Father Andrew Greeley argues that priests don’t necessarily need to get married to be happy or that marriage will stop sexual abuse of…
Pope Benedict XVI is offering relief from purgatory to Roman Catholics who travel to Lourdes over the next year, the Vatican said yesterday. Pilgrims to the shrine in south-west France will receive…
Matthew and I are always reminding each other to highlight some of the great work of our friends in the blogosphere and other stuff. The Pope has recently told us why we…
Obama Must Have Been Pretty Smart—The inevitable candidate must be very insecure if she is leveling this silly charge. Can We Please Stop Pretending?—The National Catholic Reporter drops the facade of Catholicity.…
Hillary Clinton levelled a bizarre attack on Barack Obama using the word of his kindergarten teacher that he wrote a theme entitled, “I want to be President When I Grow Up.” Besides…
I went and did it again. I made the mistake of reading the National Catholic Reporter. Ugh! Can we please stop pretending that The NCR is even remotely Catholic. Their most recent…
New York’s Roman Catholic Church is trying a novel approach to bring children into the Church – making them scared to death of priests. The diocese is alerting children to the danger…
In Persona Christi—I believe this is what the Pope intended by freeing the Latin Mass. A joy to read. Irony Alert: Catholic Disallowed to Speak About Intolerance Toward Catholics—Intolerance toward those who…
Some may ask, what was the purpose of the recent Motu Proprio Summorum Pontificum? There certainly has been no groundswell for the Traditional Latin Mass. Sure it is now available more and…