I just read an interesting anecdote on the Friends of Chesterton website. One day, before his conversion, Orestes Brownson was perusing through some Catholic literature in a bookstore, when in comes the great scholar Daniel Webster. Seeing one of the … Continue reading
The ancient prophesy of Genesis 3:15 (“she shall crush thy head, and thou shalt lie in wait for her heel”), has long been interpreted by Catholics to be a reference to the Virgin Mary. This goes back at least to … Continue reading
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I haven’t much time left in my workday to give enough praise to Saint Monica whose feast day we celebrate today, but I would like to emphasize a few of the virtues that made her so great. This is a … Continue reading
How’s this for leading, buzz-wordy, rhetoric-charged, unencumbered-by-facts reportage? In anticipation of Obama’s address and his being awarded an honorary degree from Notre Dame, a number of right-wing groups, including Catholic anti-abortion and anti-stem cell research groups, are ratcheting up tensions … Continue reading
Sometimes we have to beg. This is one of those times. The economic crisis we’re in is affecting everyone, but just because we beg doesn’t mean we have to be dire about it. Neither will we make outrageous promises or … Continue reading
Catholicism.org has many feeds for you to use in RSS readers, on your personal blogs, or on other webs sites. We also have a Facebook Application that uses RSS. (If you would like to learn about RSS, please scroll down … Continue reading
New Hampshire House Bill 436 has narrowly passed (see article in the Nashua Telegraph). The following is the statement of Bishop John McCormack on this issue: I am deeply disappointed that HB 436 has passed the New Hampshire State Senate.
“They’re watching me,” he wrote to Saint Katharine Drexel, his confidant and benefactor. One of the Catholic websites I frequent offers a video about a Black American priest by the name of Augustus Tolton. I could see by the black … Continue reading
On the Sunday after Easter readers of the Washington Post were shocked and saddened by a story on the paper’s front page. It concerned a family who lived in Middletown in the Maryland countryside about 50 miles outside D.C. The … Continue reading
The Temperament God Gave You: The Classic Key to Knowing Yourself, Getting Along with Others, and Growing Closer to the Lord, by Art and Laraine Bennett. Published by Sophia Press. The four temperaments: “Catholic astrology” or solid science? In this … Continue reading
I was raised in a home where there was no hint of racism. It was totally foreign to me, until, in 1970, I went to a certain small college in a certain state in a certain town. I saw the … Continue reading
It’s not often that five blesseds are canonized in the same ceremony, but such shall it be this Sunday when our Holy Father Benedict raises these five men and women of extraordinary virtue to the altar. — Blessed Arcangelo Tadini, … Continue reading
Doctrine changes. Truth changes. Morals change. The Church needs to catch up to modernity and progress. Pope Benedict XVI is mean, like Father Feeney. These and other startling revelations from the progressive camp are the subject of a penetratingly vacuous … Continue reading
This ancient Latin axiom is quoted so often, I thought a little explanation of it on our web site would be helpful. A paraphrase of a longer patristic expression, the phrase means, “the law of praying is the law of … Continue reading
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