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December 2017

December 20, 2017

Cardinal Law has Died

It's just now being reported that Cardinal Bernard Law has passed away. Law was pressured...

December 18, 2017

The Sixth Sorrow Of Mary: The Lamentation

A voice is heard in Ramah, mourning and great weeping, Rachel weeping for her children...

December 16, 2017

The Fifth Sorrow of Mary: The Crucifixion and death of Christ

The first time she beheld Him, He was naked, soaked in her amniotic fluid...

December 15, 2017

The Fourth Sorrow of Mary: Mary Meets Jesus on the Via Dolorosa

It is not going to be all right. It is not going...

November 2017

November 25, 2017

The Second Sorrow of Mary: The Flight into Egypt

Imagine her terror. Things were bad enough before. She came to Bethlehem in the...

November 05, 2017

There has Been Another Shooting

There has been another shooting. I could have opened a blog post with that sentence...

September 2017

September 07, 2017

Murder Most Dubious

I have seen several people publicly declare that if you believe the Pope is complicit...

April 2017

April 14, 2017

Saint Dismas

Somewhere, they are lifting up the evening sacrifice. Scarlet stains the stone before the Holy...

April 07, 2017

The Twelfth Station: Jesus Dies on the Cross

We adore You, O Christ, and we bless You, because by Your Holy Cross You...

March 2017

March 28, 2017

A Work of Mercy For Leticia and her Family

About two weeks ago I wrote a post partially about Leticia Adams, who lost her son...

March 24, 2017

The Eighth Station: Jesus Consoles the Women of Jerusalem

We adore You, O Christ, and we bless, You, because by Your holy cross you...

March 09, 2017

The Most Terrible Mystery

Last night I was vague because I didn't want to divulge anything that was meant...

March 09, 2017

A Prayer Request For My Readers

In your charity, please join me in prayer for a friend whose son just passed...

March 08, 2017

The Third Station: Jesus Falls the First Time

We adore You, O Christ, and we bless You, because by Your holy Cross you have...

January 2017

January 11, 2017

The Problem of Dylann Roof

Yesterday, sometime before the internet explode with urine jokes, the white supremacist terrorist Dylann Roof...

January 10, 2017

Requiem For The Forgotten

A woman froze to death today. She was homeless. She'd been evicted from her low-income...

January 07, 2017

The Sign of the Tau: On the Death of Father Mike Scanlan

I just got back from a pilgrimage, and found that Father Mike Scanlan was dead. ...

December 2016

December 27, 2016

Carrie Fisher Has Died

My heart is broken. People Magazine is reporting that Carrie Fisher just died of the...

December 15, 2016

Sentimentality And The Hospital Santa Virus

It seems that there is significant doubt as to the veracity of that "heartwarming" five-year-old-dying-in-Santa's-arms story...

November 2016

November 16, 2016

Priests For Life USA Is Now Posting Violence Porn

How would you feel if a relative or loved one was violently killed, by decapitation...

November 10, 2016

Leonard Cohen Has Died

Leonard Cohen, the famed singer and songwriter, passed away today at the age of...

September 2016

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 15, 2016

David Mills on What is More Enduring Than Lessons

(Image: Mosaic and inscription above the side portal of Saint Mary Church in Emauzy, Prague, Czechia,...

September 14, 2016

Why the Cross? A Meditation for the Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross

Why the Cross? Oh, so many reasons. I couldn't tell you them all. Ask me...

September 11, 2016

The Only Way to Make Good Happen

(Image: firefighters outside the Pentagon on September 11, 2001, via Wikimedia Commons) My almost-five-year-old daughter...

July 2016

July 28, 2016

Blood, Sweat, Poop And the Theotokos

I just had to share another wonderful conversation I had lately with my talented friends...

July 27, 2016

End the Year of Mercy?

I know, I know. You should never read the comments. But I couldn't help myself....

July 15, 2016

Blessed are We Who Mourn

I wake up, the morning after yet another terrorist attack in France, wondering what on...

July 08, 2016

Prayers for Dallas

I am watching the news in mounting horror. As it stands right now, eleven police officers...

May 2016

May 12, 2016

There has Been A Death

I want to introduce you to my friend Kreed, and I wish I could do...