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July 2014

July 15, 2014

Hiatus

I just noticed that the offensive advertisements that have long been appearing on National Review...

July 14, 2014

“Being hopeful doesn’t mean being ‘Little Mary Sunshine’ all the time”

Rachel Balducci, the co-host of Catholic TV's "The Gist" and best-selling author of How Do...

July 02, 2014

UPDATED: How to stop the OKC “Black Mass”–for now

[Updated 7/2/14, 9:04 a.m., with sample tweets, EEOC response, & request for suggestions for further...

June 2014

June 06, 2014

Jack Nicholson as you’ve never seen him–playing a Franciscan friar

Did you know that one of Jack Nicholson's first starring television roles was on "The...

June 03, 2014

Cardinal Rodriguez veers from prepared remarks to combat “big beast” of libertarian economics

Rocco Palmo introduces the prepared text of the speech Cardinal Oscar Rodríguez Maradiaga delivered today at...

May 2014

May 09, 2014

TAKE ACTION: Tell feds, already probing Harvard on sex abuse, that “Black Mass” adds to hostile environment

As I wrote earlier, the promoter of the Black Mass at Harvard has a long...

May 08, 2014

UPDATED WITH ACTION ITEM: Harvard can do better than give a platform to a “Black Mass” promoter who ridicules sex abuse victims

TAKE ACTION: After you read the post below, here is what you can do to...

April 2014

April 18, 2014

“This is the night”: A Holy Saturday reflection

Holy Saturday is particularly meaningful for me because it was on Holy Saturday in 2006...

February 2014

February 04, 2014

“Learning that Catholics themselves were grieving over abuse…helped me become more open to entering the Church”

Catholic World Report today features an interview with me by John Burger in which I...

September 2013

September 03, 2013

Reflecting on the still, small voice that sustains us

There is a scene in C.S. Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia novel The Magician's Nephew in...

August 2013

August 26, 2013

“Perhaps God’s greatest miracle is not creation, but re-creation”: My talk at the Courage conference

I wrote to you earlier about the beautiful experience I had last month at the...

August 24, 2013

Frank Capra responds to Jody Bottum

For context, see here (and comment there too).

August 20, 2013

St. Dominic Savio, the boy who insisted on growing up

I wrote to you last week to tell you about my "press agent" St. Dominic...

August 09, 2013

Happy feast of The Saint Formerly Known as Edith Stein!

On this day the day the Church honors St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, better...

August 03, 2013

Healing with Courage

Since returning last Sunday from the four-day Courage/EnCourage conference, where I spoke about healing sexual...

July 2013

July 05, 2013

UPDATED WITH RESPONSE: Were the Vatican & USCCB “unjust” to order a Catholic blogger to take down reformatted versions of Francis’s encyclical?

Readers of New Advent this morning got a surprise when, after clicking on a headline...

June 2013

June 25, 2013

UPDATED WITH AUDIO: Welcome, “Morning Air” listeners!

UPDATE: My "Morning Air" interview is now online! Listen here. I'm very thankful to Sean...

June 18, 2013

Do you or someone you know need to forgive? Then you need to watch this program

UPDATE, 8/3/13: As of this writing, most of the links to "Women of Grace" episodes...

June 12, 2013

Blessed Albertina Berkenbrock and what it means to be a “martyr of chastity”

This coming Saturday, June 15, is the feast day of Blessed Albertina Berkenbrock, whose story...

June 03, 2013

News about my June 4 EWTN interview, a jailhouse talk, …

... and other tidbits await you in the latest "Life in Eden" update on my...

May 2013

May 23, 2013

My Catholic faith inspired my actions, says Ingrid Loyau-Kennett, heroine who faced Woolwich attacker

Ingrid Loyau-Kennett, the mother of two and former Scout leader who calmly confronted the Woolwich...

May 01, 2013

Dominicans’ Angelic Warfare Confraternity director urges members to read My Peace, calling it “a powerful aid for healing and renewal”

As a member of the Angelic Warfare Confraternity, the Dominican Friars' apostolate for Catholic men...

April 2013

April 14, 2013

Cardinal Wuerl delivers outstanding homily in support of embattled Newman Center chaplain

Tonight I was proud to witness Washington Archbishop Donald Cardinal Wuerl deliver an outstanding defense...

April 11, 2013

Benedict and the Bible: The importance of the Greek Old Testament for the Pope Emeritus’s theology

What has Athens to do with Jerusalem? You can find out today in Homiletic &...

April 10, 2013

An evil not even tolerated among the pagans

From an e-mail I sent today to one of my closest friends, who is concerned...

April 07, 2013

UPDATED: Traditionalists’ “expert” on Pope Francis is a Holocaust denier

[UPDATE, 4/9/13: I just learned that the eve I posted this was the beginning of...

April 05, 2013

UPDATED: Pray for persecuted Newman Center priest and for those who persecute him

Father Greg Shaffer is one of my parish priests. I live a stone's throw from...

April 04, 2013

Saved by the cowbell: Mark Volman of Sixties rockers the Turtles is now a Christian professor

Backstage at the Bottom Line, NYC, with Howard "Eddie" Kaylan (left) and Mark "Flo" Volman,...

April 03, 2013

Happy Father Dowling feast day!

Today is the "feast day" of one of my personal patron saints, Father Edward Dowling,...

April 03, 2013

The peace that penetrates prison walls

Father George David Byers' Holy Souls Hermitage today features a deeply moving account of conversion...