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November 2014

November 04, 2014

Jesus, On Feeding The Homeless

On a sabbath Jesus went to dine at the home of one of...

October 2014

October 29, 2014

The Kind Of Post TIME Magazine Never Picks Up, AKA, Hell Is Real!

The other day TIME Magazine picked up a Patheos post from a different channel in...

August 2014

August 16, 2014

Keep Calm, And Keep Praying. We Aren’t Abandoning The Persecuted In Iraq UPDATED

On Thursday, President Obama gave a brief speech that raised the hackles of folks...

August 11, 2014

Pope Francis: ISIS Onslaught “offends God and offends humanity.”

Listen to our brothers and sisters. Listen to our shepherd. That our adversaries believe it...

August 05, 2014

When Spring Came, I Cut My Fig Tree Down. Then, God Took Over…

A couple of years back, I shared a post here about my love of figs...

July 2014

July 27, 2014

Psalm 119, The Hebrew Letter נ (Nun), And A Prayer

As Christians around the globe adopt the Arabic letter ن‎ (nun) as their profile pictures on...

July 17, 2014

The Truth About S. 2578 From A Career Politician, With An Assist From Malcolm Muggeridge and James Madison

It didn't fail. Rebecca Hamilton, my blog neighbor, and soon to be retired Democrat pol,...

July 17, 2014

The Bishops Respond To The Fear Mongering Of The Administration Over Religious Liberty

From the USCCB Blog, Archbishops Salvatore J. Cordileone , William Lori, Thomas Wenski, and...

July 12, 2014

Because I Can Learn A Lot From Tim Harris

If you're ever in Albuquerque, New Mexico, put this restaurant on top of your "must...

June 2014

June 18, 2014

Were The Tuam Children Denied Baptism?

That was one of the damning charges of the story that rolled out of Ireland...

June 12, 2014

N.T. Wright On Reality, Gay Marriage, And Being On The Wrong Side Of History

Over at First Things, Matthew Schmitz shared a video, and transcribed a rough draft of...

June 07, 2014

A Clarification About The Deaths Of 800 Children In Tuam, Ireland, And More…UPDATED

...rolls of the presses of The Irish Times. Writing therein, Rosita Boland teases out...

June 05, 2014

The Monk’s Life, In One Paragraph (A Few Thoughts For Thursday)

What follows is from Thomas Merton's translation of sayings from the Desert Fathers, The Wisdom...

June 04, 2014

On Hamlet, Our Sins, And The Man In The Mirror UPDATED

I was going to write a long and involved post on the little news item...

June 02, 2014

Miraculous Proof That God Loves Mustangs More Than Camaros…

See what God did there? Toldja! Sing it, Wilson.

June 01, 2014

St. John of the Cross On What Ails The Catholic Blog-O-Sphere

Last week was a pretty embarrassing one in the parish of St. Blogs. It was...

May 2014

May 16, 2014

Stuff That Makes Me Question Authority? When The Agriculture Department Requests Tommy Guns

Source. Since when did every single government department need their own private police force? Since...

April 2014

April 09, 2014

To Follow The Way Of The Cross, From Death Into Life

There's a reason that folks get angry when they learn that the reality of the...

April 07, 2014

Truly, truly, it wouldn’t be Lent without 40 days of silliness regarding The Incarnation running rampant.

Comes the esteemed history professor from UNC-Chapel Hill wondering for 38 minutes and 37 seconds...

February 2014

February 27, 2014

WWJD? Consider This…

Food for thought the next time you feel like turning over tables, and breaking out...

February 22, 2014

Gay Man Refused Last Rites? “GetReligion” Has Some Thoughts On This Story

You've probably seen the story published by The Washington Post about the gay man who...

February 19, 2014

Video: The Economics Of Sex, Sex, Sex, And More Sex

Got ten minutes? That's all it will take for the Austin Institute for the Study of...

January 2014

January 08, 2014

Bigotry Watch: Chuck Norris, Or U.S. News and World Report? UPDATED

Seriously? I mean you just knew that Chuck Norris was not going to be the...

January 04, 2014

Because the Mandated HHS Rules Strike at the Heart of Freedom

Originally, this post was published in mid-January, 2012. A few days later, the thoughts I...

December 2013

December 23, 2013

Quacking On About Duck Dynasty, Homoeroticism, And The Usefulness Of The Historical-Critical Method

Yesterday, I shared a few of Audrey Assad's thoughts on the Duck Dynasty imbroglio. Calm,...

December 21, 2013

To Leave the Shackles of Human History Behind

It is ironic to run a post with a title claiming that one of...

November 2013

November 21, 2013

Bishop Paprocki’s Homily for Prayers of Supplication and Exorcism in Reparation for the Sin of Same-Sex Marriage

Earlier this evening, in Springfield, Illinois, Bishop Thomas J. Paprocki followed through with his plan...

November 14, 2013

Our Bishops Get All Hard Core On The HHS Mandate

Folks thought it couldn't be done. Others may have thought that some of them would...

November 05, 2013

About That “Unprecendented” Poll Asking Catholic’s Opinions On Church Teachings…UPDATED

Two things. A) It is a survey, not a poll and, B) it was sent...

November 04, 2013

“The world holds us to be fools; let us hold it to be mad.”

There's is more where that came from, from St. Francis de Sales's, Introduction to the...