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January 2018

January 01, 2018

The Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God

Why does the Church bother having dogmas about Mary anyway? Why not just stick to...

December 2017

December 30, 2017

And that’s what Christmas is all about, Charlie Brown

“It is a serious thing to live in a society of possible gods and goddesses,...

December 29, 2017

St. Peter Chrysologus on the Miracle of the Incarnation

December 28, 2017

On this Feast of Holy Innocents…

Rachel's Vineyard, Project Rachel, and Silent No More Awareness Campaign are all good to support...

December 28, 2017

The Finest Depiction of Holy Innocents Ever Painted

It haunts me.

December 28, 2017

What I Did This Christmas

So I started Christmas by allowing my computer to suffer a massive heart attack and...

December 27, 2017

In Praise of Materialism at Christmas

Grey gnostic spirits pledge to me "Good Thoughts" at Christmas. They piously denounce materialism and...

December 27, 2017

Behold, the Virgin Shall Conceive…

So last week, just as I was about to post a followup to this piece...

December 20, 2017

Today is an Auspicious Day!

On this day, thirty years ago, Sherry Weddell and Yr. Obdt. Svt. were received into...

December 12, 2017

This is an amazing mashup

Happy Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe!

December 08, 2017

Why Marian Dogmas?

Yr. Obdt. Svt. on the Church Marian dogmas over at Northwest Catholic: A great deal...

November 2017

November 24, 2017

A Thanksgiving Paradox

Here's an excerpt from a bit of whimsy I wrote a few years back on...

November 23, 2017

A Proclamation

By the President of the United States of America It has pleased Almighty God to...

November 21, 2017

Rod Bennett and I have some Thanksgiving fun!

November 02, 2017

All Souls Day

On November 4, 1983, I saw my Dad for the last time. He had slipped...

October 2017

October 31, 2017

Eye of the Tiber Kills Me

Catholic Costume Stores Across Country Reveal Most Popular Halloween Costume Is Slutty Mark Shea I...

October 31, 2017

I enjoy anything by Rod Bennett

...but I especially enjoy Rod Bennett when he holds forth on Halloween: Today is Halloween — and,...

October 30, 2017

The Long, Twisted Story of All Hallow’s Eve

Everybody knows that Halloween is just the baptized pagan feast of Samhain, right? Everybody's wrong. ...

October 23, 2017

Happy Creation Day!

According to Anglican Bishop James Ussher, today is the 6021st birthday of the Universe! At 9...

September 2017

September 21, 2017

Because Christianity is nothing more than warmed over paganism…

September 21, the Autumn Equinox is, of course, a massively important day in the Christian...

July 2017

July 04, 2017

We Hold These Truths to Be Self-Evident

I wrote this 16 years ago. I believed at the time that the assault on...

May 2017

May 13, 2017

Pope Celebrates 100th Anniversary of Fatima

...by preaching whole Catholic faith and irking everybody. First, he elevates two seers to sainthood,...

May 04, 2017

May the Fourth Be With You

Tokyo jeweler offers gold Darth Vader mask for $1.4-million pic.twitter.com/xeecjZPQUn— The Globe and Mail...

May 02, 2017

It being the Feast of Athanasius…

I thought a little reading from him might be good: 16. He came then to...

April 2017

April 01, 2017

The Greatness and Goodness of President Donald J. Trump

I had an epiphany today and want to share it with the world. Donald Trump...

March 2017

March 25, 2017

A Chestertonian reflection on blasphemy and the Annunciation

All that the most terrible blasphemer has to say is tame and timid compared with...

March 25, 2017

Also on this day in history (and not accidently for the Catholic Tolkien)

In the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God to a city of...

March 01, 2017

Your Guide to Ash Wednesday

February 2017

February 14, 2017

When you care enough to send the very best

January 2017

January 27, 2017

Annual Ninja March on Washington Happening Now

Silently, stealthily, hundreds of thousands of ninjas are making their way through the streets and...

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