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May 2013

May 07, 2013

7-Year-Old Steals Car to Avoid Going to Church

I’d love to tell you that my children, when they were young, always loved going...

May 07, 2013

Breathtaking Disrespect: Pope-Emeritus Benedict Portrayed in Condoms

I’m speechless. In a convergence of chutzpah and bad taste, Shorewood (WI) artist Niki Johnson...

May 05, 2013

TOOL TIME REDUX: Lake Orion Priests Laugh It Up on the Big Screen

You’ve got to admire the creativity of Fr. Mike Verschaeve and Fr. Steve Pullis. The...

May 04, 2013

At Carnegie Mellon, “Naked Pope” Tosses Condoms Into Crowd (UPDATED)

Costumed in papal vestments, naked from the waist down with a cross shaved into her...

May 04, 2013

Anti-Religious Propaganda in the Soviet Union: Could It Ever Happen Here?

I was in elementary school during the Cold War. I remember praying the Leonine Prayers...

May 04, 2013

Mary’s Month

I had this idea that on Saturdays during the month of May, I’d post something...

May 01, 2013

Archdiocese of Detroit Sells Its Chancery Building, Plans Move to Detroit’s Capitol Park

In a surprise announcement on Tuesday, April 30, Detroit Archbishop Allen H. Vigneron told staff...

May 01, 2013

STANDING FOR THE FAITH: Blessed Antonio Primaldo, the Saint Who Stood to the End (UPDATED)

On December 20, Pope Benedict XVI--amid a flurry of 23 decrees including the much-touted proclamation...

May 01, 2013

Margaret Thatcher’s Heartwarming Letter to a 9-Year-Old Boy

“However good we try to be, we can never be as kind, gentle and wise...

May 01, 2013

Vatican and Argentina Issue Joint Postage Stamps Honoring Pope Francis (UPDATED)

You philatelists out there might be able to tell me whether this is as unusual...

April 2013

April 29, 2013

Let My Prayer Rise Like Incense….

Let my prayer rise before you like incense, And my hands like an evening offering....

April 29, 2013

Pope Francis’ Prayer Intentions for May

Each month, the Holy Father names two prayer intentions: a general intention, and a mission...

April 28, 2013

Just in Time! The National Day of Prayer

If ever there was a time when the citizens of our nation needed to bow...

April 28, 2013

First-Ever Painting of Native Americans—Discovered in the Vatican?

Pinturicchio’s fresco of “The Resurrection” has adorned a wall at the Vatican for 519 years—but...

April 26, 2013

I Was Once Offered a Job at an Abortion Clinic

“You would be answering the phone, handling paperwork, and assisting the doctor with some procedures,”...

April 24, 2013

THE UGLY FACE OF FEMINIST WRATH: Foul-Mouthed, Topless Protesters Drench Archbishop With Water (UPDATED)

Ah, woman. So soft, so demure, so loving, so radiant. The graceful Hollywood beauty Audrey...

April 23, 2013

The Mall of America, the Ladybug, and the Queenship of Mary

I love the Mall of America! Well, actually, I have two favorite spots there: I...

April 23, 2013

Swift’s Modest Proposal, Revisited: Eating Our Children (UPDATED)

“I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that...

April 23, 2013

Learning From The Best: Imitating Our Heavenly Mother

Children learn by example—and who better to emulate than one’s own mother? A mother teaches...

April 22, 2013

“Not Worthy of an Answer”? Let’s Try Again, Ms. Napolitano

Really? Our government lied? That couldn’t be true. On April 18, it was reported that...

April 22, 2013

No Place in the Church for the Catholic Bloggers?

Did Pope Francis really say that there is no place in the Church for Catholic...

April 22, 2013

Will Blessed Pope John Paul II Be Canonized on October 22?

The medical council charged with reviewing a possible miraculous healing attributable to Pope John Paul...

April 22, 2013

Jesus Is So Much Better Than Fabric Softener

Oh, not again. It seems that Jesus has popped up again—this time in Great Britain,...

April 21, 2013

HOPE FOUNDED IN FAITH: The World Day of Prayer for Vocations

Ask a tourist what is the most familiar statue in St. Peter’s Basilica, and he’s...

April 19, 2013

Martin Luther on Copernicus

"People give ear to an upstart astrologer who strove to show that the earth revolves,...

April 17, 2013

The Catholic Mom’s Lament: “There’s No Time to Pray!”

My story is every mother’s story: My children are grown, but oh, how I remember...

April 17, 2013

Gosnell TweetFest Forces Hand of Media Elite

Seven counts of murder. Medical malpractice. Racism. Failure of governmental agencies to protect the health of citizens. ...

April 16, 2013

Pope-emeritus Benedict’s Birthday Portrait

Pope-emeritus Benedict XVI turns 86 today—and at a party in his honor, the German Embassy...

April 15, 2013

Bar Codes in the Darnedest Places!

When I was a child, we played with chalk. We signed our names, we sketched...

April 15, 2013

The Religious and the Excremental: Holy Sh*t

Melissa Mohr seems to have hit the jackpot with her new book Holy Sh*t: A...

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