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May 2013

May 17, 2013

That Twilight Zone Moment When The IRS Agent Asks You For The Content Of Your Group Member’s Prayers

That's when you break out your pocket copy of the Constitution, read the agents of...

May 14, 2013

The National Organization for Marriage Made the IRS “Enemies List?” Do Tell.

Remember how during the Presidential campaign word got out the Mitt Romney had made a...

May 12, 2013

A Long Time Ago, In A Galaxy Far, Far, Away…

When Democrats swore that they supported traditional marriage. Oh. Wait. That was only nine short...

May 07, 2013

We Live On An Unusual Planet In An Unusual Solar System. That’s Two “Unusuals.”

Yesterday, I was going on about the Sun. Today, Robert Krulwich, of NPR's science desk,...

May 06, 2013

An E-Mail Addressed To Me, But Which Is Really For Archbishop Myers

This note popped into my "in basket" this afternoon. It's from a reader, whose...

May 05, 2013

Like Only Nixon Could Go To China, Can Only Pope Francis Preach About The Devil?

Show of hands, how many of you have you heard your parish priest mention the...

May 04, 2013

Many News Organs Are Preaching To An Ever Shrinking Partisan Choir On Every Issue They Cover

What could I possibly have seen that leads me to make such a conclusion? Data...

May 04, 2013

Why I’m Not Doing Victory Laps About the News Out Of Newark

It's pretty simple. Because everyone lost. That's the really sad news. Parents lost, in that...

May 01, 2013

Can a Pope Know More About Liberty Than the Founding Fathers?

See for yourself. The liberty of those who are in authority does not consist in...

April 2013

April 28, 2013

The Conversion of Takashi Nagai, And His Vocation of Love

All the buzz a few months back was the cause for the sainthood of Dorothy...

April 26, 2013

Rod Bennett Is On the Mission of Forming Intentional Disciples with the Smoky Mountain Scripture Study

And he's asked me to help him out too, which means I'm inviting you to...

April 26, 2013

Help Push the Film About the Life of Takashi Nagai Across the Finish Line

Since the end of August, in the year of Our Lord 2011, I've been...

April 25, 2013

What Three Exclamation Points in a Pope Francis Homily Really Look Like…

From this past Sunday, I would like to ask you: have you sometimes heard the...

April 22, 2013

The Boston Bombers’ Turning to Religion Caused Them to Murder and Maim Innocents? UPDATED

That seems to be the thesis over at the Wall Street Journal. Once known as...

April 21, 2013

Because the Church is the Port in the Storm

I remember well how it felt when I first came across these words written by...

April 13, 2013

Anderson Cooper Tacks To Windward, Asks Hard Questions About the Gosnell Case

I'm not sure if you were able to see the telecast from his show last...

April 12, 2013

The Medal of Honor Citation of Captain Emil Kapaun, Chaplain Corps, US Army

For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above and beyond the...

April 12, 2013

Speaking of Holocaust Deniers, What Happened to the Media Coverage of the Gosnell Trial? UPDATES

There has been a lot of dust flying about the Holocaust, and folks minimizing it,...

April 11, 2013

Speaking of Arguments, Monsignor Benson Continues His on the Mystical Body of Christ

A few days ago, I shared a few thoughts of a convert named Robert Hugh...

April 07, 2013

Dawn Eden Discovers Something Important About Pope Francis’s #1 Detractor…UPDATED

Argentinean blogger, Marcelo Gonzalez? He's a Holocaust denier. Is there any better way to flush one's...

April 04, 2013

Ross Douthat, Writing on “Class, Culture, and the Decline of Marriage”

Justice Anthony Kennedy, during discussion of arguments for overturning California's Proposition 8, stated that same-sex...

March 2013

March 31, 2013

Pope Francis gives Urbi et Orbi Easter message…

Jesus is risen! There is hope for us. They that have ears, let them...

March 30, 2013

Pope Francis’s Homily for Easter Vigil: “Be Opened!”

Hearing il Papa's words, all I can think of is Ephphatha (be opened)! Read the...

March 28, 2013

Pope Francis Mentions Pelagians in His Chrism Mass Homily…

And everyone runs for their history books! Oh wait. Not really. He was mainly preaching to...

March 27, 2013

Neil Gaiman on Lewis, Tolkien, and Chesterton…

I'll be the first to admit that I'm late to the party of those who...

March 26, 2013

The Big Ball of Flame Up in the Sky Throws a Beautiful Fit

Here's another post by your Sun crazy blogger. There was a little black spot on...

March 20, 2013

Meanwhile, Back in the USA, the HHS Mandate Fight Continues…

It's kind of hard to tear ourselves away from all of the historic goings-on in...

March 19, 2013

What Would the Desert Fathers Think of Pope Francis Blessing the Disabled Man?

Surely you've seen the video of Pope Francis stopping his ride into St. Peter's Square...

March 17, 2013

Not That Anyone is Asking, but Hans Küng Approves of Pope Francis’s Election

Sure, Fr. Hans Küng believes in the dubious problem of overpopulation, and that the birth...

March 17, 2013

Pope Francis’s Homily Today at St. Anne’s is Simply Beautiful UPDATED

Pope Francis is a great extemporaneous speaker. Here is the homily that he delivered today....