Over at the recently re-activated (and re-named) blog, What’s Up With Francis-Church, my pal Hilary White returns to her years’ long theme, “Novusordoism Isn’t Catholicism,” with a post on where Mother Angelica went wrong when she declared war against the American Catholic establishment in 1993. She begins with a video clip of a famous episode of Mother Angelica Live!…
And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, afterwards he was hungry. – Matthew 4:2 The Scriptures are sometimes amusing in their understatement. Perhaps one of the most obvious examples of this is when St. Matthew describes how Jesus was feeling after fasting for forty days. Think about how you feel if you have to skip…
Dear God, Will you please tell book publishers to stop publishing books about “two homes” for children of divorce? Every time I see one, I want to scream. I know those authors and publishers think they are performing a needed service, but in reality they are whitewashing an extremely painful experience that never ends. Please…
Our first podcast of 2016 is available, and today we talk about the Jubilee Year of Mercy that is now fully underway. What is Mercy? What does it mean? How should we look for it or apply it in our own lives? Listen here.
It’s our first podcast of 2016, and today we talk about the Jubilee Year of Mercy that is now fully underway. What is Mercy? What does it mean? How should we look for it or apply it in our own lives? [powerpress]
It’s the most dreaded time of year again for Americans: tax season. At the end of January, we sent out year-end statements to our donors via email if they’re claiming deductions. Printed copies are on their way out via snail mail for those who did not provide an email address. If you did not receive a…
And seeing the multitudes, he had compassion on them: because they were distressed, and lying like sheep that have no shepherd. – Mt 9:36 In an interview last month with Asia Times, Pope Francis opined at length about China. China, where Communist policies have ended the lives of roughly 100 million men, women, and children, and where a…
The latest papal video is out. Hot on the heels of last month’s paean to religious indifferentism, we get another blast of immanentism from the Vatican, which has apparently rebranded itself as a non-denominational ecology and social-justice driven NGO. Yes. The Church teaches stewardship of creation. You’ll get no dispute from me. But it also…
In my life, I have often encountered people who say something like the following to Catholics who love the traditional liturgy—or, for that matter, who wish to see the modern liturgy celebrated in a manner manifestly in continuity with its predecessor: “You’re making too much of incidental things. No matter what form or style, it’s…
“The talk might turn in any direction,” chronicled Warnie Lewis, “[always featuring] the cut and parry of prolonged, fierce, masculine argument and “the rigour of the game.” Later Warnie would chronicle that Out would come a manuscript, and we would settle down to sit in judgment upon it – real unbiased judgement, too, since we…
It’s election season in America again. And since January 22nd, 1973, U.S. conservative voters have had their political autonomy held hostage by a single court decision. Roe v. Wade, by the very gravity of the issue it decided, forever changed the American political landscape, forcing conscientious pro-life voters to focus on this issue to the virtual exclusion…
