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June 2015

June 08, 2015

The Church Without Nuns is Like a Human Heart that’s Cut in Half

Legislators can be dismissive of clergy. In fact, elected officials are, whether they will admit...

May 2015

May 20, 2015

Hypocritical Clergy Shut the Door of the Kingdom of Heaven in People’s Faces

My colleague, Linda LaScola writes a blog over on the Atheist Channel. The focus of...

May 15, 2015

The Christian Basher in Chief Explains Pope Francis

Christian/Catholic bashers come from all sectors of society. Some of them come from the left....

May 12, 2015

Christianity Declines Sharply in America. Here’s the One, Two Three of It.

Recent polls show a seven percent drop in the past eight years in the number...

April 2015

April 22, 2015

Pope Accepts Bishop Finn’s Resignation

The Roman Catholic Church in America is under attack from many directions. First, it is...

April 18, 2015

Cardinal George, Dead of Cancer at 78

Cardinal Francis George, archbishop emeritus of Chicago died at 10:45 this morning of cancer. He...

April 08, 2015

I Apologize. I was Wrong. I. Had. No. Idea.

I apologize to everyone I ever dissed for being too concerned about the state of...

March 2015

March 20, 2015

Purple Prose Aside, Oklahoma Did Not Limit Marriage to People of Faith

My former colleague, Representative Todd Russ, recently passed a piece of legislation, HB 1125 that...

March 02, 2015

After 9 Years Ripping Off the Priesthood, Gay Priest Leaves, Blames Church for His Life of Lies

Priests are human. I think I established my belief in the humanness and fallibility of priests...

March 02, 2015

After 9 Years of Ripping Off the Priesthood, Gay Priest Leaves, Blames Church for His Life of Lies

Priests are human. I think I established my belief in the humanness and fallibility of priests...

February 2015

February 24, 2015

Patriarch Urges Prayer for 90 Syrian Christians Kidnapped by ISIS

ISIS murderers have captured at least 90 Christians from villages in Syria. It is unknown...

February 23, 2015

Do You Qualify to Attend the Father Dan Stoning Party?

Be kind to one another, tender-hearted, forgiving each other because Jesus Christ has also forgiven...

February 21, 2015

OKC Priest Commits Marriage. Is Removed from Parish.

I know I'm supposed to get all in a lather about this. But, frankly, I...

February 10, 2015

Ascension Press: Following Jesus to the Priesthood

Ascension Press has released the beautiful video below to encourage young men to consider the priesthood....

January 2015

January 16, 2015

Is the Liturgy Really That Bad?

We’ve recently had a dust-up here on Public Catholic because I had the temerity to...

January 11, 2015

God Give Us Holy Priests

I’m a member of a group that meets on a regular basis to pray for...

January 09, 2015

Cardinal Burke’s Woman Problem

Photo Source: Wikimedia Commons I’ve written about this before. There was a reason why...

November 2014

November 11, 2014

The Hard Teachings: Are You Going to Leave Me Too?

If you do not eat of my flesh and drink of my blood, you will...

October 2014

October 21, 2014

Haters Gonna Hate: Christian Ministers Forced to Perform Gay Marriage or Face Jail Time

Photo Source: Catholic News Agency Remember the lies? Gay marriage would not lead to...

October 21, 2014

The Synod, One More Time

I was bugged all day long yesterday by one of my own posts. The...

October 15, 2014

6 Things I Hope the Synod on the Family Does That It Doesn’t Seem to be Doing Now

I had high hopes for the Synod on the Family. I had hope that it...

September 2014

September 23, 2014

Be Ready to Take a Beating: OKC Bishop Emeritus Marched with Martin Luther King, Jr

Our current leader, Archbishop Paul Coakley, and Archbishop Emeritus Eusebius Beltran. Oklahoma City’s Archbishop Emeritus...

September 22, 2014

Archbishop Coakley’s Homily at the Benediction and Eucharistic Procession in Response to the OKC Black Mass

This is Archbishop Coakley’s excellent homily from yesterday’s Benediction and Eucharistic procession in response of...

September 20, 2014

No Person Defines You. Christ Defines You. Know that and be Unafraid.

I am having a blest life. In some ways, it is almost a charmed life....

September 15, 2014

Three Cardinals — and I Don’t Mean Baseball Players — and Their Grand Slam of Confusion

I’m late to the party. But then, I often am. It takes me a while...

August 2014

August 18, 2014

Christians Attacking Christians is the Devil’s Handiwork.

I read a book this weekend, Even Silence has an End, by Ingrid Betancourt....

July 2014

July 11, 2014

Confession, the Courts and Going to Hell

If a priest reveals what he’s heard in confession, will he go to hell?...

July 11, 2014

Pope Francis: Sex Abuse is a Sacrilegious Cult

Our Papa brings it with this extraordinary reflection on sex abuse. Have I mentioned...

June 2014

June 27, 2014

Vatican: Archbishop Kicked Out for Sex with Minors

It’s about time. The Vatican’s Congregation for the Doctrine of he Faith has ordered...

June 25, 2014

The Pope is Catholic. Catholic Haters Hate That About Him.

Following Jesus without deviating will get you smeared every time. I think it’s a rule...