The author pages on our site (e.g., Gary Potter’s) are now improved. These pages list all of the articles and columns by each author on the site. Simply click on the hypertext name of the author and you will see … Continue reading
Category: Columns
John Wayne “I’m a Cardiac-Catholic”
That’s what he used to say jokingly when asked what his religion was. We all love John Wayne for his great films, but waiting to the last hour to come into the Church was highly un-commendable. In fact, according to … Continue reading
Monsignor Domenico Bartolucci on Liturgy
Three days ago, I posted a notice concerning a significant book by Monsignor Brunero Gherardini. Today, I would like to give a hat tip to Carlos Antonio Palad at Rorate Caeli for making public another major monsignoral moment for tradition. … Continue reading
Washington’s Grand Stepson a Friend of Saint Patrick
Martha Dandridge was a widow when she married our first president in 1759. Of her four children from her previous marriage to Daniel Parke Custis there were only two surviving when she remarried: John, age five, and Martha, age three. … Continue reading
The Faith All But Dead in Quebec
O Canada! In “Neither practising nor believing, but Catholic even so,” we learn of the tragic state of the Church in Quebec. The article summary reads: “The ‘baptized pagans’ of Quebec, the most secularized society in the Western world, have … Continue reading
Vatican Council II: An Open Discussion, by Monsignor Brunero Gherardini
[Update: Monsignor Brunero Gherardini’s book can be purchased now. The English title is The Ecumenical Vatican Council II: A Much Needed Discussion. If readers “in the know” would alert us to the publication of his subsequent volumes, we would appreciate it … Continue reading
O Blessed Truculence!
There are those who consider us at Catholicism.org truculent for wishing to convert our nation to the true faith. Such talk nowadays is not exactly au courant. Neither does it resonate sympathetic vibrations with the ascendancy of the liberal Comintern … Continue reading
Obamacare, Mary, and Crystals
One of the few magazines I enjoy reading is Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture. Dr. Thomas Fleming, a very erudite gent who occasionally writes like a curmudgeon (but a funny one) is one I like to read especially. In … Continue reading
The Southern Poverty Law Center, A Danger To America
Americans for Legal Immigration have compared the Southern Poverty Law Center to Hitler and Stalin. While the SPLC’s modus operandi appears to be more … let’s call it “capitalist” … than their German and Russian counterparts, those who have dealt … Continue reading
This Year’s SBC Conference: October 30-31
Our Saint Benedict Center Conference has been moved back from August to October. We have also changed the venue to the Center in Richmond, NH (directions here). There will be seven speakers, three on Friday, and four on Saturday. (The … Continue reading
Saint of the Day/Did you Know Glitch
We apologize for the fact that our tabbed “Did you Know…?” and “Saint of the Day” feature has been disabled. (It reminds me of Psalm 11:2, “Save me, O Lord, for there is now no saint: truths are decayed from … Continue reading
Brazilian Priest Invented Hot Air Balloon 300 Years Ago
One more thing to add to a list of just about everything that was invented by Catholics. This one wasn’t in Michael P. Foley’s book Why Do Catholics Eat Fish On Friday: The Catholic Origin To Just About Everything, which … Continue reading
Books Now Posted on Site
At long last, we have migrated all our online books to the new WordPress Catholicism.org. You can now read: Our Glorious Popes, by Sister Catherine, M.I.C.M. Fish on Friday, by Father Leonard Feeney, M.I.C.M. Survival Till Seventeen, by Father Leonard … Continue reading
Where Have All the Catholic Philanthropists Gone? The Case of Carl Karcher
In researching for our fundraising project I came across a very devout Catholic philanthropist named Carl Karcher. If ever there was an example of what happens when you don’t keep the business in the family, or at least with trusted … Continue reading
New Comments Policy
When we began the new Catholicism.org on the WordPress platform, the default settings for comments was as follows: as soon as someone had one comment approved, he was “in the club,” so to speak. All of his subsequent comments were … Continue reading
