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Rediscovering Mary: From Spiritual Distance to Stella Maris

There's a Problem with the Virgin Mary There's a problem with the Virgin Mary. I...

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Bunker Busters Fit The Catholic Morality Test

Is It Moral To Bomb Iran? A week before the United States...

May 2025

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A Church Of Surprises–Pope Leo XIV

Surprising The World With An American Pope America went bonkers. The world went wild....

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July 30, 2022

The Catastrophic Decline in Religious Faith And What To Do About It

Is That All There Is? Disaffiliation From Religion Increases Perhaps one of the least liked...

December 2021

December 15, 2021

Where Are You Catholics?–Told You They Weren’t Coming Back

Where Are You Catholics? A little riff on a famous Christmas song: Where are...

October 2021

October 12, 2021

Johnny We Hardly Knew ‘Ye–Remembering John Denver (d. Oct. 12, 1997)

Memories I was surfing YouTube the other night, and I came across the one celebrity...

July 2021

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...

November 2020

November 23, 2020

Unsullied: Why Pope John Paul II Is Still Both Saint and Great

On the Warpath to Destroy St. John Paul the Great I can't stand hateful trolls. ...

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 03, 2020

The Two-Edged Sword Of Hypocrisy–The Archbishop And The President

Two Difficult Days For Presidential Photo-Ops It was awkward, there on the public sidewalk outside...

May 2020

May 31, 2020

Catholic Mass with Masks

Peek-a-boo, I see you. The Church Cautiously Re-opens. St. Rita Parish, where I am priest...

May 31, 2020

Supreme Court Punts On Pandemic Religious Restrictions

Supremes At Work Although it looks like Chief Justice Roberts muddied the waters as...

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...

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...

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 22, 2019

THE RAD TRAD HERESY: RESISTING TRUTH

A Heresy For Our Times Once, it was just grumpy alt-right conservatives complaining about the...

September 18, 2019

BLESS ME FICUS FOR I HAVE SINNED

Talking to plants has been in thing for years. Praying to plants is kind of...

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 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 13, 2019

NARNIA TOPS WITH READERS AGAIN

A British survey earlier this month showed people picking C. S. Lewis' THE LION, THE...

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...

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...

June 2019

June 19, 2019

BROADWAY SONG BECOMES HONG KONG ANTHEM

A Broadway song has unexpectedly taken a prominent place in the real life fight for...

June 09, 2019

SUMMER OF SCANDAL II–IN HELL WE’LL BE IN GOOD COMPANY

Great bluegrass song out called "In Hell I'll Be In Good Company." By...

June 06, 2019

D-DAY: THE FADING GLORY OF VALOR

On the 75th Anniversary of D-Day, the governmental elites, the ordinary folks, and most especially...

May 2019

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SINNERS WHO DO GREAT THINGS

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