Just after I posted an appreciation of the recent USCCB document clarifying the Church’s teaching on her mission and the Jewish People, I checked my familiar news sources to catch up on what’s going on. Coincidentally, I discovered that “ADL … Continue reading
Our beloved Superior, Brother Francis, who will be 96 years old on July 19, is in need of prayers for his health. Brother was in the hospital last week with congestive heart failure, a condition he is prone to because … Continue reading
If you’ve not read Brian Kelly’s brief and delightful biography of Venerable Solanus Casey, please do yourself the favor. This Irish-American Padre Pio ought to be better known and loved across the nation. Please Note: if any of our readers … Continue reading
Father Kenneth Baker, S. J., has written a short and delightful review of a recent book on Saint Francis of Assisi: “Preach Christ to the Muslims” The volume in review is St. Francis of Assisi and the Conversion of the … Continue reading
Over at Taki’s Magazine, Charles Coulombe playfully takes readers on a fast-paced romp through the unfamiliar (for most people) political spectrum of what is called “Paleoconservatism.” His article, The Old Paleos and the New, seeks to explain the contrasts and … Continue reading
A magnificent writer, Elizabeth Thecla Mauro, has a passion for the sport, and boy is she good at her craft. Her team? The Yankees. Well, that’ll just have to be overlooked. She finds a nobility in the game and in … Continue reading
The annual Pilgrimage for Restoration is a sixty-five mile walk from Lake George to the Shrine of the North American Martyrs in Auriesville, NY. For four days, pilgrims attend Mass together, walk, camp, sing pray, and compare blisters! It’s an … Continue reading
You all know what June 9 is! And in case you didn’t, the ever-helpful and editable Wikipedia will tell you: The Battle of Toulouse (721) was a victory of a Frankish army led by Duke Odo of Aquitaine over an … Continue reading
A couple of days after I posted a piece quoting Dorothy L. Sayers — and I don’t often cite Anglican novelists — I came upon an article on the First Things site, Dorothy Sayers and Economic Society. It’s a good … Continue reading
Introduction: This is a short essay, written by my niece, for a composition class she is taking in her first year of college. She got an “A” for it. When my sister gave it to me to read I thought … Continue reading
Manchester — (for news story, see “Gay marriage bill signed into law in New Hampshire“) Bishop McCormack released the following statement today: I am deeply disappointed that the bill to legalize same sex marriage in New Hampshire was signed into … Continue reading
I wrote my senator, Jeanne Shaheen, to express my views opposing embryonic stem-cell research. Finding her answer was callous and evasive, I wrote a response spelling out the issue more plainly. The correspondence, minus my brief opening email, is herewith … Continue reading
That was in 1946 after he was asked by President Truman to take a tour of Europe and investigate their reform schools. Although his condemnation of the physical abuses that permeated the system in his own country could not have … Continue reading
From a Russian blogger comes a stinging critique of America under President Obama. Stanislav Mishin originally published this on his blog, Mat Rodina, but I’ve linked to Pravda’s reprint of it (the printer-friendly version, to spare you some grossly immodest … Continue reading
There is not much one can say in defense of a charismatic, celebrity-priest who violates his promise of clerical celibacy, resists correction, uses his superstar status to bash Church discipline, and then responds favorably to a crass church-hopping invitation from … Continue reading
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