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July 2019

July 14, 2019

Chick-fil-A is Losing Out on a Billion Dollars a Year. And That’s Just Fine.

From USA TODAY: Truett Cathy, the founder of Chick-fil-A, made the decision when he started...

July 12, 2019

They’re Playing Our Song: Great Catholic Music to Stream Online

Well, this is pretty cool, from CNS: Catholics hear hymns in church, but hardly ever...

July 11, 2019

How Millennials Replaced Religion with Tarot Cards and Crystals

From The Los Angeles Times: A growing number of young people — largely millennials, though...

July 02, 2019

Get a Whiff of This: World’s Supply of Frankincense Could Go Up in Smoke

From Science magazine (h/t to my deacon pal E.J. Cassidy): Frankincense, one of three fabled...

June 2019

June 29, 2019

My Life is Complete

This popped up on my Twitter feed early this morning and now I've seen everything....

June 26, 2019

Your Wednesday Is About To Get a Whole Lot Better

Trust me on this. You want to watch this video from last night's episode of...

June 25, 2019

Father Grows Best: Behold, Priests With Beards

Why does it appear more priests and seminarians have beards? Glad you asked. Arkansas Catholic...

June 22, 2019

The Story Behind That Great Albert Pujols Video

If you haven't seen it yet, check out the story below, from WPLG, which tells...

June 17, 2019

When a Father Brought His Autistic Son to Church — UPDATED with apology

This just makes me want to weep. Dr. Paul Rimmer took his son to Evensong...

June 08, 2019

Stephen Colbert on Tolkien, Robert Bolt, Loss and Faith

The late night comic and outspoken Catholic gave an interview to The New York Times...

June 07, 2019

Father Kevin Cusick on Modesty at Mass and ‘The Twitter Mob’

There's been a lot of ink devoted to the controversial tweet of Father Kevin Cusick,...

June 05, 2019

For D-Day: The Story Behind One of the Greatest Speeches of Our Time

It was the speech President Reagan gave at Pointe du Hoc 35 years ago, and...

June 05, 2019

Giving Jesus the Cold Shoulder: When Casual Catholics Take ‘Casual’ to a New Level

The heated debate about bare shoulders during Mass reminded me of this post from a...

June 03, 2019

Jeannie Gaffigan Pens Book About Her Brain Tumor: ‘Jim’s Learning to Read Just for Me’

From People: The writing partner and wife of bestselling author/comedian Jim Gaffigan, and mother of their...

June 02, 2019

Some Australia Catholic Schools Make God Gender-Neutral

From The Daily Mail: Catholic schoolgirls are being taught that God is gender-neutral and banned...

May 2019

May 29, 2019

No Capes: A New Look for the Knights

This caused a stir when it was first discussed a couple years back. Now, it's...

May 28, 2019

The Advocate Who Pleads Our Cause

I suspect when most of us think of the Holy Spirit, “the Advocate” isn’t the...

May 16, 2019

Reclaiming Sunday: Detroit Archdiocese Cancels Sunday Sports

A great idea: What ever happened to Sundays are for resting and church? Well, the...

December 2018

December 27, 2018

No, that story about the ’12 Days of Christmas’ isn’t true

It happens every year around this time, so now seems as good a time as...

December 10, 2018

Great moments in culture: principal orders Nazi symbols removed from production of ‘The Sound of Music’

What the heil? Details: The hills are alive … with the sound of political correctness....

September 2018

September 19, 2018

Do something great for your kids: Take them to church.

And a new study proves it's beneficial: A new study released by the Harvard T.H....

July 2018

July 16, 2018

Is this a homily? Or a stage production?

My friend Fr. Matthew Schneider opines: I want to go a little deeper than matters...

June 2018

June 26, 2018

‘This has made me want to go back to Mass’: a simple idea that is bringing people back to church in Wales

It's so simple and do-able, you have to wonder why more churches don't try this....

June 04, 2018

Why Roseanne and other celebrities need to learn the Act of Contrition

I've been thinking the same thing, and I'm glad someone is putting this out there....

May 2018

May 17, 2018

Bishop approves alternative to Boy Scouts as a Catholic apostolate

The following press release landed in my mailbox a short time ago: Thousands of young...

May 11, 2018

Top baby names for 2017

I haven't seen many of these cross my desk when I meet families about baptisms,...

May 09, 2018

Ross Douthat: ‘Make Catholicism Weird Again’—UPDATED

The New York Times conservative columnist Ross Douthat offers his take on the controversial Met...

May 08, 2018

‘What’s the Church doing here?’: Cardinal Dolan’s remarks at the Met Gala—UPDATED

A lot of ink has been spilled about this controversial evening, but I was struck...

April 2018

April 10, 2018

This may be the most unusual and surprising religious broadcast in the world

This is, quite literally, the sound of silence, in England: It’s not the most obvious...

April 09, 2018

Gallup: Catholic church attendance slides; only 4 in 10 go to Mass in any given week

From Gallup's website: Weekly church attendance has declined among U.S. Catholics in the past decade,...