Today’s roundup focuses primarily on simultaneous attacks on the Church’s traditional teaching on marriage and family happening right now, around the world. Today I bring in a special guest – veteran pro-life journalist Hilary White, to help analyze the situation …
Defective Philosophy: A Primary Cause of the Communion Debate
The question most hotly debated at the recent Synod on Marriage and Family is that of whether divorced and remarried Catholics – without a decree of nullity for their previous marriage — should be permitted to receive communion. It seems …
Can a Catholic Criticize the Pope?
Pope Francis’ appointment of Fr. Timothy Radcliffe to the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace this past weekend was most disconcerting. Any openly dissident priest who advocates for Catholic acceptance of gay relationships and identity, women’s ordination, and the “Eucharistic” nature of …
Don’t Watch This Video!
If you watch this video, there’s no telling what might happen…
Towards The Second Coming: Facing the Liturgical East
In Acts 1:2, we witness angels speaking to the Apostles who were staring into the skies into which the Lord had just ascended: “Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye there gazing into heaven? This Jesus, Who is taken up …
How to Be One Hell of a Catholic Evangelist
If it’s Monday, then my son is hearing the same refrain from me: “If you keep your bedroom clean this week, you get a pack of baseball cards.” On Sunday I check his room, and if it’s clean, he gets …
Other People’s Messes
I spend an inordinate amount of time cleaning up other people’s messes. When I became a stay-at-home mother eleven years ago, nobody told me how much of my life would revolve around doing just that. There were tasks I expected – making meals, …
Friday Roundup – May 15th, 2015 Edition
CHECK IT OUT: You can listen to this post as a mini podcast – available exclusively on this page: In a discussion with one of our writers this morning, I mentioned the absolute glut of Church news. He responded, “Reading …
Lord, Grant Me Humility – But Just Not Yet!
Want to listen to this post instead? The audio is available here: I am a member of a spiritual association which requires the recitation of certain prayers each day. And each day, one section of the prayers is substituted with …
Leading Pro-Life Priest Laments “The Francis Effect”
“The Synod of the Family last year, set off alarm bells for most Catholics and we saw bishops against bishops and episcopal conferences fighting other episcopal conferences, and, in all of this, we…we know that heaven has given us a …