Best Homily on Feast of Corpus Christi – Evah!

June 13, 2009 By

I’m not being at all glib when I say that this passionate homily by Deacon Greg gave me chills. It is spot on, and difficult to excerpt, but here’s a taste: Back in the 1970s, when there was a lot of liturgical innovation going on, Dorothy Day invited a young priest to celebrate mass at [...]

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Pelosi & the Pope: Do Not Be Afraid

February 14, 2009 By

A couple of emails from Catholics expressing displeasure at the news that Nancy Pelosi is heading to Rome with a contingent of legislators and will take a meeting with His Holiness, Pope Benedict XVI. Wrote a former marine who seem pretty angry: I am deeply concerned about this matter as I personally believe that Mrs. [...]

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Virginity, Chastity, Nunstuff

February 3, 2009 By

Got an email from someone today wondering why I did not write about Candlemas. Feb 2 is actually one of my very favorite feast days, the Feast of the Presentation of the Lord, (if I’d ever become a nun I’d have been Sr. Mary Whatever of the Presentation of the Christ) and I would write [...]

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Some questions from the mailbag

December 4, 2008 By

Q: Anchoress, I notice you’re writing a lot about Advent and nothing about politics. A: Well, you’re very observant! I decided after the election – actually a few weeks before the election, but by then I was in the circuit and had to see it through, so to speak – that I would write about [...]

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Only Deacon Greg…

September 21, 2008 By

…can take Lehman Bros, the financial crisis and Hurricane Ike and put it together in a meaningful and ultimately uplifting way

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Pelosi to Bishops: drill your brains?

August 27, 2008 By

Wait, that can’t be right. Nancy Pelosi cannot have respond to the rather heavy dose of correction she received from various and sundry Bishops and Cardinals, some of her colleagues in Congress and the US Conference of Catholic Bishops with an offer to drill their brains, right? Oh, wait! I see! She asked some of [...]

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Holy Eucharist & "Crackers" – UPDATED

July 11, 2008 By

Medal-Cross of St. Benedict Is it too much, really, to ask reporters to get it right? They always seem to write some variation of this: …he smuggled a Eucharist, a small bread wafer that to Catholics symbolic (sic) of the Body of Christ after a priest blesses it… No. We believe it is the Real [...]

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