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October 10, 2016

How Lovely Is Your Dwelling Place

(image via Pixabay) I couldn't get a ride to the Byzantine Catholic church. I decided to...

October 09, 2016

What is Happening At Priests For Life?

(image via Pixabay) I have respected Father Frank Pavone over the years. I think he's...

October 08, 2016

You Know Who I Feel Sorry For Right Now?

(image via Pixabay) I feel sorry for my daughter. At the moment I write this,...

October 08, 2016

A Work Of Mercy For Haiti

(Image of the Haitian flag via Pixabay) I have here two Facebook Posts from...

October 08, 2016

It’s Time For Pro-Life Leaders To Repent

I have striven not to talk about politics on this blog any more than I...

October 07, 2016

When You Wake Up Crying

(image via Pixabay) He used to stand by the driveway to the abortion clinic, in...

October 06, 2016

Why I Don’t Write About Abortion Much

(image of wineglass via Pixabay) Me: I think abortion is a terrible evil, so...

October 06, 2016

A Prayer for Kayden Culp

I hate the days I have to share horrible news. Scrolling through the newsfeed, as...

October 06, 2016

The Cry of the Poor

(image via Pixabay) Here's another status posted by my friends at The Friendship Room. This...

October 05, 2016

They Finally Said the A-Word

I watched the Vice Presidential debate last night. I'm still not sure why I did...

October 04, 2016

A Saint Francis’ Day Tin Cup Rattle

(image via pixabay) I have been blogging for over six months now. Six months. Half...

October 04, 2016

The Madman with the Pineapple: A Recollection for the Feast of Saint Francis

(image via Pixabay) Great Grandmother was a Secular Franciscan. "I could be buried in a...

October 03, 2016

A Haunting Spectacle: A Review of Episode Two of “The Exorcist”

(image via Pixabay) Last week, if you recall, I watched and reviewed the pilot episode of...

October 02, 2016

Saint Therese and the Speckled Toadstool

(image via Pixabay) My name is Therese of Lisieux. That's not the name people call...

October 02, 2016

The Future

(image via pixabay) Remember that every human being is an icon, and gaze on this icon...

October 01, 2016

A Work of Mercy for Baby Joseph

(image via Pixabay) If anyone would like to help the family of Baby Joseph...

October 01, 2016

Two Takes on Walls

(Image via Pixabay.) For whatever reason these two things are stuck to each other...

September 2016

September 30, 2016

Emergency Prayer Request (updated)

(image via Pixabay) My friend just said his son has been taken to the hospital,...

September 30, 2016

Old Scratch and the Wal Mart Ressurrection

(image via Pixabay) It was a couple of years ago now, in Autumn. I'd just...

September 29, 2016

Michaelmas Recollections

(Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons) I'd forgotten it's Michaelmas, the feast of the Archangels, in...

September 28, 2016

Evening Walk

(image via Pixabay) Lately, when I can't sleep at night, I go for walks by...

September 28, 2016

Throwing the Baby Out With The Beer: The Pro-Life Movement and the Idolatry of Party Politics

(image via Pixabay) Let's say you needed to move a fridge full of beer, and...

September 27, 2016

A Word For the Pro-Life Movement, On Those Debates Last Night…

(image via Pixabay) I watched the presidential debate. I'm still not sure why I did...

September 26, 2016

Soviet Children Fear the Dark: Mr. Rogers and the Call to Love Our Enemy

(image via Pixabay) I'm on an Eastern Countries kick lately. Want to hear about the...

September 25, 2016

How To Cook A Russian Bear

(image via Pixabay) Lately, my curiosities have drifted East. I go to the Byzantine Catholic...

September 24, 2016

I Have Yet To Be Possessed: A Review of the Pilot Episode of Fox’s “The Exorcist”

(image via Pixabay) I enjoy a good horror film. I like the aesthetics of a...

September 23, 2016

Huffle-puffle-buffal-uffle

(image via Pixabay) I took the Pottermore Patronus quiz. I should mention that I'm not...

September 23, 2016

Saint Pio, the Transfiguration and a Coconut Cake

(Image via Pixabay.) Today is the the feast of Saint Pio of Pietrelcina. I like...

September 22, 2016

The Equinox Will Come to All

(image via Pixabay) Once, I was looking at the comments on one of those memes...

September 21, 2016

“I Know It Sounds Prejudiced…”

(Official Black Lives Matter organization logo, courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.) When I was a...