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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...

August 2022

August 25, 2022

The Coming of Tolkien’s, The Rings Of Power

The Coming of Tolkien's, The Rings Of Power A week from now, Amazon Prime...

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 17, 2021

Et Cum Spiritu NoNo–The Demise of the Traditional Latin Mass Experiment

This opinion piece will not be tactfully phrased. There have been many essays in the...

July 08, 2020

Plague Consequences: The Unchurching Of Catholics And What To Do About It

Pandemic Changes This is the summer of our discontent. Like a long rolling wave in...

April 2020

April 01, 2020

One Friday In Lent, The Papacy Embraced The World

As the Dark was rising, There in the dying of the light, He walked alone,...

December 2019

December 08, 2019

Sabotaging Sheen: Shepherds Suborning Sanctity

Lifting the Cloud on the Beatification Scandal Hard to believe that the cloud surrounding the...

December 05, 2019

Sheen Cause Over?

Ominous whisperings from Rome tonight concerning the beatification cause of Bishop Sheen have trickled stateside. ...

December 03, 2019

No Taking The Shine Off Sheen

UPDATE #1 12/4/19: Today it was revealed by CNA that the Bishop of Rochester, NY,...

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 16, 2019

Pope Francis–Don’t Be A Litterbug!

Pope Francis Wants to Include Ecological Sins in Catechism At an international conference of...

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 17, 2019

JESUIT ACTOR IN “EXORCIST” MOVIE ACCUSED OF ABUSE

Morally Compromised NY Governor and Legislature Destroy Reputations There has been no investigation, yet. There...

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...

August 09, 2019

VIOLENT AMERICA–THE REASON

TIME FOR A LITTLE REALITY: EL PASO SHOOTER---WHITE SUPREMACIST DAYTON SHOOTER---LIBERAL SOCIALIST CHICAGO SHOOTERS---ANGRY...

August 06, 2019

CHRISTIANITY NEARLY EXTINCT IN IRAQ

Few Christians in the West, know that Christianity in Iraq and much of the Middle...

July 2019

July 30, 2019

RACISM OR TRUTH IN BALTIMORE?

Baltimore ecumenical leaders including Archbishop Lori, responded to President Trump’s tweets on the rat...

July 19, 2019

BISHOPS EMBRACING SLOTH–MISTAKES OF THE BISHOPS PART THREE

Becoming CEOs of the institution and ceding the Church to lawyers rather than to...

July 01, 2019

ST. JOHN HENRY CARDINAL NEWMAN–TO BE CANONIZED ON OCTOBER 13

If you don’t know this man you should. He is one of the most famous...

June 2019

June 27, 2019

VENERABLE ARCHBISHOP FULTON SHEEN–HOMEWARD BOUND

HOMEWARD BOUND If you find it’s me you're missing If you’re hoping I’ll return To...

June 24, 2019

SHEPHERDS THROWING PRIESTS TO THE WOLVES–MISTAKES OF THE BISHOPS PART TWO

So they lawyered up. That was the first mistake the bishops made in the sex...

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 15, 2019

NO HARD HAT BIRETTAS–THE CHURCH HAS FAILED AGAIN!

NO HARD HAT BIRETTAS? THE CHURCH HAS LET US DOWN AGAIN. Picture from the Daily...

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