Does forgiving help us to keep going?

April 7, 2008 By

Do you remember this terrible story, wherein a couple lost five of their children in a collision? Deacon Greg links to an inspiring conclusion to that terrible story. Now, more than two years after the accident, Mr. Helm has been acquitted on charges of vehicular homicide. Mr. Schrock says he has accepted that he may [...]

Filed Under: Confession, Faith, Prayer, Saints

Don't forget!

March 14, 2008 By

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Pews, Press, Prostitutes…whatever

March 11, 2008 By

The two big stories of the last 48 hours have been the Spitzer fiasco and the “new sins from the Vatican” nonsense. Priests and Prostitutes? No, mostly prostitutes and the press. Yesterday I got an email from a reader which read in part: Has liberal cretinism permeated their minds? I mean, at a time when [...]

Filed Under: America, Catholicism, Confession, Dumb Democrat moves, Election 2008, Faith, John McCain, Mitt Romney, Our Hillary!, Questions about Catholicism, Rudy Giuliani, The Fourth Estate, The Perpetual Adolescents

Hillary, Confessions, Blogs, Popes, Priests & more

March 10, 2008 By

Heh. John Hawkins has a post up with 10 reasons why this blog is not succeeding while others do. I try! I don’t feel comfortable networking, but I link out! I try to be interesting and varied – most days I post at least three or four new things. Seems I’m just not all that [...]

Filed Under: America, ANCHORESS BOOKSHELF, Blogs and Blogging, Bookchat, Catholicism, Confession, The Fourth Estate

"I was in the dungeon"

March 6, 2008 By

Fr. Corapi hears his own father’s confession:

Filed Under: Catholic Vocations, Catholicism, Confession, Faith, John Paul II, Prayer, Questions about Catholicism

God forbid we should feel a little bad…

March 27, 2006 By

Miss Kelly is distressed to find that some hymnals (including – sigh – the one in my church) features a change in the words to Amazing Grace. “Amazing Grace, how sweet the sound that saved a wretch like me…” Has been changed to reflect both the freedom that comes with salvation – which is very [...]

Filed Under: Catholic Vocations, Catholicism, Confession, Eucharist, Faith, Feminism, Free Speech?, Liturgy of the Hours, Monasticism

On Confession, Part II

February 12, 2006 By

Last month, I wrote on the sacrament of Confession and my experiences of it. Just thought I would add a little more to it, as this afternoon in confession, I made the priest laugh out loud (which is a lot better than making him cry), and because I got an email on the subject that [...]

Filed Under: Catholicism, Confession