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July 2014

July 23, 2014

Protesters In Baghdad: “I am Christian, Sunni, Shiite, Kurd, Mandean,Yazidi, and I am Iraqi”

ISIS thugs may attempt to kill and intimidate their way to power, but that will...

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...

June 2014

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 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...

May 2014

May 27, 2014

Pope Francis With The Quote of the Week

"Dear brothers, dear friends, from this holy place I make a heartfelt plea to all...

May 21, 2014

Robert P. George Reminds Us That We Are Pilgrim People…

And that our lives must be lived as a sign to the world. A sign...

February 2014

February 27, 2014

WWJD? Consider This…

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

February 14, 2014

For Your Flannery O’Connor Quote Of The Year

To find out about faith, you have to go to the people who have...

February 13, 2014

What Are Adults Looking For From Christianity? Even “The Onion” Knows The Answer To That Question

Sure, The Onion is the best thing going when it comes to humorous, satirical, "news." But what...

December 2013

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...

December 07, 2013

For Dana Gioia’s Thoughts On The Vocation Of The Catholic Writer

A lot of ink has been spilt these last few days since Evangelii Gaudium was...

November 2013

November 26, 2013

Get Your Pope Francis Awesome Sauce Right Here…

Straight from the source. No filters. No handlers. Evangelii Gaudium, Apostolic Exhortation of Pope Francis,...

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 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...

November 02, 2013

Belated Happy Reformation Day!

D'oh! Here's a refresher if you're unsure what the Five Solas are. It's as good...

November 02, 2013

Because Our Neighbors Include the Dead

And that is why we pray for them. Sure, I could knock you around with...

October 2013

October 28, 2013

In The News: Alabama Joins EWTN In Suit Against The HHS Mandate, and Benghazi-Gate Gets New Life…

As the HHS takes it on the chin for the failures in allowing folks to...

October 13, 2013

Take A Moment To Read This Bill Watterson Inspired Comic Strip

The words are Bill Watterson's (creator of the awesome Calvin & Hobbes series) and the...

October 11, 2013

Your Marriage Quote of the Year

This works both ways, I hope. When a guy is happily married, no matter...

October 08, 2013

How Peyton Manning Made Me Think Of Pope Francis…

He did this, and I made the connection immediately. I'm weird that way, see? I...

October 06, 2013

It Is “Respect Life Sunday”

Which kicks off Respect Life Month. In case your parish missed mentioning it, due to...

October 05, 2013

And Now You Know Why The Italian Press Isn’t Exactly the Gold Standard of Journalism

So when we learn the details of Scalfari's interview, it's like Simcha Fisher says, He...

October 03, 2013

In Search of Pageviews, HUFFPOST Manufactures Clash Between Pope Francis and Pope Benedict?

That's what it looks like to me. They've done stuff like this to boost pageviews...

September 2013

September 28, 2013

Because Jesus, His Disciples, and the Old Testament, Said Plenty About Hell

And once again, it's inconvenient to the spirit of the age. But regardless of whether...

September 28, 2013

Unpacking Pope Francis’s Interview (Part III, the Conclusion)

Thus the Holy Spirit can use the humblest to enlighten the learned and those in...

September 27, 2013

Unpacking Pope Francis’s Interview (Part II) UPDATED

I'm back to unpacking Pope Francis's interview, though the world seems to have moved on....

September 25, 2013

Joe Six-Pack Unpacks Pope Francis’s Interview (Part I) UPDATED

“I do not know what might be the most fitting description....I am a sinner. This...

September 22, 2013

Pope Francis’s Homily On the Last Ember Day of Autumn

It seems fitting to me, at least. Especially this part, “And sinners, tax collectors and...