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July 2026

July 23, 2026

There is a Difference Between Damnation and Salvation

There is a difference between doing an immoral thing and not having any morals at...

January 2026

January 27, 2026

Alex & Renee: Where was God When They were Murdered?

Christ with me,  Christ before me,  Christ behind me,  Christ in me. St Patrick It...

April 2022

April 25, 2022

Doubting Thomas was the only modern man in the whole story.

“I won’t believe it unless I see the nail wounds in his hands, put my...

July 2018

July 30, 2018

McCarrick and Rother: The Tares and the Wheat Co-Exist in this World

I had planned to write a rather scathing column today. I’ve been on my last...

December 2017

December 13, 2017

Blessed Stanley Rother, the Shepherd Who Did Not Run

Blessed Stanley Rother's life and death offer religious leaders who are honestly seeking to follow...

October 2015

October 24, 2015

Persecution, not Divorced and Remarrieds, is the Most Serious Issue Facing Christianity Today

My colleague Kate O'Hare interviewed Chaldean Catholic Bishop Mar Bahai Soro about the holocaust of Christians...

October 02, 2015

All the Christians Stand Up

If a shooter said All the Christians stand up to you, what would you do? Sadly,...

August 2015

August 22, 2015

ISIS Desecrates, Demolishes Syrian Monastery. Priest Missing.

My colleague Tom McDonald posted a story about another atrocity against Christians at the hands of ISIS....

July 2015

July 08, 2015

What if We Took a New Look at the Story of St Maria Goretti?

This is for those who lie in the field, the lake, the dump and the...

July 07, 2015

Many Rape Victims Have a Bit of Trouble with St Maria Goretti. Here’s Why

I've spent a fair amount of my adult life, trying to help rape victims. I...

June 2015

June 26, 2015

ISIS Offers “Beautiful Young Girls” as Sex Slaves to Winners of Koran Memorization Contest

Evidently, ISIS is sponsoring a Koran Memorization contest in honor of Ramadan in which "beautiful...

May 2015

May 27, 2015

Saints Who Were Martyred While Celebrating Mass

St Oscar Romero was martyred while celebrating mass. Can you think of a better way...

May 01, 2015

The Crusades, Christian Bashing and Our Two-Tier Educational System

NOTE: I noticed a couple of comments on other topics that reflect the popular ignorance...

April 2015

April 20, 2015

ISIS Releases Video of Themselves Murdering 30 Christians by Shooting and Beheading Them

You will not have safety even in your dreams until you accept Islam. Masked ISIS murderer...

April 15, 2015

Turkey Says Pope’s Remembrance of Armenian Genocide is Islamaphobia

Murderers and rapists demand silence. They will use any means to coerce agreement that they...

April 13, 2015

Pope Francis Describes the Massacre of Armenians as ‘Genocide.’ Turkey Recalls Its Ambassador.

In his morning homily today, Pope Francis described the courage to proclaim the Gospel as...

March 2015

March 25, 2015

From Hitler to the BTK Killer, How Do You Forgive a Monster?

When a train goes through a tunnel and it gets dark, you don't throw away...

March 03, 2015

Conversion on the Beach: One Man’s Conversion to Christ Before ISIS Execution

ISIS march 21 men onto a beach in Libya. Twenty of these men were Christians....

February 2015

February 24, 2015

Holy Martyrs of ISIS, Pray for Us

As they now stand amid the white-robed multitudes, and behold the Throne of the Almighty...

February 19, 2015

Coptic Christians of Egypt and Their Long History of Persecution

This video is from January, 2014. At that time, the Muslim Brotherhood was subjecting the Copts...

February 19, 2015

Would Die for Your Ashes? Cardinal Wuerl Reflects on Modern Christian Martyrs

Cardinal Wuerl delivered a powerful homily on the present-day Christian martyrs yesterday. "We can go...

February 19, 2015

Brother of Two ISIS Victims Testifies to Their Christian Faith

The brother of two of the 21 Coptic Christians murdered in Libya used live...

January 2015

January 20, 2015

Newest Charlie Hebdo Makes Fun of the Pope

The newest issue of Charlie Hebdo makes fun of the Pope. I doubt that the...

December 2014

December 19, 2014

Victim Blaming and Catholic Hating: What is Our Response?

It starts as soon as we can toddle out of our cribs. It rears its...

December 18, 2014

Breaking: ISIS Murders 150 Girls and Women in Iraq. Boko Haram Kidnaps 100 Villagers in Nigeria.

Photo Source: FreeDigitalPhotos.net ISIS, the Taliban and Boko Haram seem to be in a race for...

December 13, 2014

Notre Dame and The Little Sisters of the Poor

I thank you Father … that you have hidden these things from the wise and the learned,...

September 2014

September 24, 2014

Christians are Suffering and Dying for Christ. We Must Stand Witness.

The first genocide of the 20th Century, the "forgotten genocide,” was the genocide of Armenian...

September 05, 2014

Steven Sotloff: Observant Jew. Grandson of Holocaust Survivors.

ISIS recently released another video of their British Muslim terrorist, beheading an American journalist....

September 03, 2014

Rotherham and the Cowardly Act of Offering Up Young Girls to the Dragon of Misogyny

It’s an old myth, the story of villagers who sacrifice a virgin to the...

September 02, 2014

Christianity: The Religion of Life

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the...