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February 2025

February 18, 2025

Vice-President Vance—A Catholic Leader In The Public Eye

On Valentine's Day, February 14, 2025, Vice-President J. D. Vance gave a historic speech at...

July 2022

July 25, 2022

The Radical Left Is A Religion And Abortion Is Their Sacrament

The Radical Left Is A Religion Talk about unhinged. It may seem like the...

July 09, 2022

How Many Catholics Are There In The World? A Look At Where They Live

A Time Of Despair? Going on social media can be a dismal time...

June 2022

June 24, 2022

Death of Roe v. Wade–63 Million Voices Cried Out: Justice Is Served

An Unexpected Deliverance--The Death Of Roe V. Wade And so it happened, here on the...

August 2020

August 28, 2020

Ridin’ With Biden–On The Road To Perdition?

Ridin' With Biden So much chatter about this that I thought I would put my...

June 2020

June 22, 2020

Pandemic Inertia In The Church

Remember What Happened To The Church After The Black Plague The last pandemic that...

November 2019

November 27, 2019

Gay Marriage, Communion, Catholicism: When Mercy and Dogma Meet

Gay Marriage and Communion A few days ago, Fr. Scott Nolan, pastor of St. Stephen's...

November 09, 2019

Francis: The Pope We Need

The RadTrad Heresy grows exponentially with its Jansenistic emphasis on the pernicious nature of the...

October 2019

October 06, 2019

Amazon Synod–End Of Church?

Amazon Synod Portends Change For Church Well, here we go. The long awaited Amazon Synod...

September 2019

September 04, 2019

MAKING PEACE WITH POTTER

Don't Worry About Harry Harried a bit by the evil in the world? Make peace...

August 2019

August 26, 2019

THIS IS THE DOG THAT NEVER ENDS

“No one should have a soul so dead, that he does not wish to see...

August 14, 2019

CATHOLIC BELIEF IN EUCHARIST HASN’T CHANGED IN A QUARTER CENTURY

Recently, my friend Bishop Robert Barron let his righteous anger fly on his blog...

July 2019

July 22, 2019

ST. MARY MAGDALENE–ENIGMA, HERO, APOSTLE

Let's get holy. On this Feast of St. Mary Magdalene, a look at this extraordinary...

June 2019

June 15, 2019

MISTAKES OF THE BISHOPS–PART ONE

The U.S. Bishops had an unimpressive week at their biannual meeting. That means this first...

June 10, 2019

WHAT IN THE WORLD IS CARDINAL BURKE DOING?

What in the world is Cardinal Burke doing? What can he and his compatriots be...

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