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December 2014

December 28, 2014

Anglicanless Christmas

Anglicans have written some of the greatest Christmas hymns, the ones Catholics sing at Christmas...

November 2014

November 03, 2014

Praying for the Dead

An example: In the twenty-six years he's been a priest, our pastor Father Rich Jones...

October 2014

October 24, 2014

Loving the Truth

From the Ronald Knox Society, a perhaps useful quote from his A Retreat for Lay...

September 2014

September 17, 2014

We Worship Lucifer. Just Look at the Latin

Now the End Begins, the website mentioned in the previous item, really doesn't like the...

September 17, 2014

Media Facepalm of the Day

As a friend put it. The International Business Times seems to be a respectable newspaper,...

August 2014

August 28, 2014

The Answer to the Problem of Ecclesiadicy

Read this after posting The Theology of Bad Bishops: Catholic New Testament scholar and convert Leroy Huizenga's...

August 28, 2014

The Theology of Bad Bishops

Bad leadership, especially the sort that undermines Catholic teaching even when not denying it, "is...

August 27, 2014

The Missa My Little Pony

One wants to think the comparison is unfair, but upon consideration has to admit that...

August 17, 2014

New York’s Daily Latin Mass, Almost Gone

A sympathetic treatment from the weekly newspaper New York Observer on the news that The Last Daily Latin...

August 14, 2014

The Settled Question of Ordaining Women

The question of ordaining women that has so exercised some Catholics and the mainline Protestant...

August 13, 2014

The Power of Beauty, Also Eschatology

A conference readers may be interested in: The Power of Beauty, being held at the...

August 08, 2014

The Way, It’s True, Is a Life

Go here and read. Two young friends did the same thing this summer but sadly have not...

July 2014

July 29, 2014

Old & New Confessions

Signs from (and of) the past, on the confessionals in St. Peter Church in the...

July 17, 2014

The Wise Masked Chicken Speaks on Francis

Vocal disappointment with and disapproval of Pope Francis is a line increasingly taken by conservative...

July 02, 2014

Father Rumble Explains

In yesterday's Readings, I gave the link to the Australian writer R. J. Stove's conversion...

June 2014

June 22, 2014

Selective Stories

The headline of The New York Times story is apparently misleading: Collecting Catholics’ Everyday Stories as an...

June 12, 2014

The Future of Christianity

"I can’t see mainline protestant denominations surviving. They will not be influential," says retired Anglican...