This — in the videos, below — is what you’re up against if you wish to maintain just a modicum of Christian standards in a Catholic institution. The Diocese of Columbus, which let a teacher go for living in an … Continue reading
Category: Columns
Excellent Catholic School for Girls Will Remain Open
A little bit of good news: Uptown New Orleans Xavier Prep, primarily for African-American girls, will now be known as Saint Katharine Drexel Preparatory School. The school was founded in 1915 by Mother Drexel and her Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament … Continue reading
Serial Killer’s Last Known Victim Was a Priest
The country’s worst serial killer, Charles Cullen, murdered forty people, perhaps more. He did it as a nurse by injecting the victim with a lethal drug. He was from my home town; in fact his home was on my paper … Continue reading
Anti-Family Statists Kidnap Baby
Reading stories like this, one waits for Rod Serling or M. Night Shyamalan to make a cameo. Only they don’t, because it’s real… (The Blaze) Following a Monday court ruling, Anna and Alex Nikolayev are one step closer to regaining full … Continue reading
Another Argentine Porteño Occupies a Throne
Meet Queen Máxima of the Netherlands. With the abdication of Queen Beatrix, her son, Crown Prince Willem-Alexander, becomes King of the Netherlands, and his Argentine-born Princess, Máxima, becomes Queen. According to Wikipedia, Máxima “remained a Roman Catholic after her marriage” to … Continue reading
Judge Joseph R. Nolan, RIP
From the Boston Globe: [Update: Here is the obituary, with more information, from the Stanton Funeral Service site.] Joseph R. Nolan, a justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court for 14 years, died Monday, according to the Stanton Funeral Service … Continue reading
Don’t Smoke the Tea Leaves!
Father Michael P. Orsi has written an article for Catholic Exchange titled, “Reading the Tea Leaves: Will Pope Francis End Priestly Celibacy?” After correctly saying that there cannot be female priests, and after a bit of speculation on the possibility … Continue reading
Pope Francis: ‘It Is Not Possible to Find Jesus outside the Church’
From Pope Francis’ sermon today, the feast of Saint George (Jorge Bergoglio’s own patron): “But the Christian identity is not an identity card: Christian identity is belonging to the Church, because all of these belonged to the Church, the Mother … Continue reading
Archbishop Piero Marini: ‘Civil Right’ to Unnatural Unions
Call me a troglodyte, but it was my impression from Catholic moral teaching that nobody has a “right” to do what is contrary to the law of God, whether we consider that portion of the law that is supernaturally revealed, … Continue reading
Meet Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber
Forget Justin Bieber. The Canadian pop star has nothing on the Bohemian-Austrian baroque composer and violinist, Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber (12 August 1644 [baptized] – 3 May 1704). Believed to have been Jesuit educated in his earlier years at … Continue reading
On Bombs, Babies, and Boy Scouts
The nation is still reeling from the tragedy of the Boston Marathon bombing, and one of the two suspects is still at large as I write. Three people were killed, thirteen had limbs amputated, and 170 others are still hospitalized. … Continue reading
Potty-Mouthed, Pro-Death Prof. Policed
File this one under “I” for “inmates running the asylum.” (LifeNews.com) A college professor has been arrested for a profane rant at pro-life students at the University of Buffalo. Professor Laura Curry screamed at students, yelling at them: “Where does … Continue reading
The Birth of Christ Marked the Start of Year One, Not 4 B.C.
In a brief and simply written essay Jimmy Akin shows how one nineteenth century scholar, Emil Schürer’s, mistakes put a question mark on the exact year of Christ’s birth for over a century. I am far more skeptical about this “scholar,” than … Continue reading
Pilgrimage for Restoration 2013 (September 20-22): Pre-Register Now!
Please consider joining us on the Pilgrimage for Restoration this year, either in person or remotely. Even if you are only mildly interested in the pilgrimage, pre-register for it. The reasons for this are several-fold, and I will mention them … Continue reading
Pope Francis: Biblical Studies Must Be ‘Within the Faith of the Church’
Two paragraphs exerpted from Pope Francis’ Address to the Pontifical Biblical Commission: As we know, the Holy Scriptures are the testimony in written form of God’s Word, the canonical memorial that attests to the event of Revelation. The Word of … Continue reading
