Blogger Free Speech, Humanae Vitae – UPDATE

:::UPDATE::: A blogger who is rebuilding finds his Obama-critical posts uncached and unrecoverable. Hmmmmm…:::END UPDATE::: So, these Obama True-Believers are an insecure bunch. It seems to me if you are confident in your candidate, you don’t need to run around doing all you can to silence opposition by shutting down blogs that dare to dislike [...]

Sally Quinn: A tribute too far? – UPDATE

Of all the tribute written by journalists about their friend, Tim Russert, a few have been standouts; Jon Meacham’s piece in Newsweek was onesuch. In her column, “On Faith” Sally Quinn writes another excellent, heartfelt tribute about the fullness of the man, Tim Russert, and how his faith, joyfully confessed throughout his being, completed that [...]

Corpus Christi 2008 (Repost)

This past Sunday was the Corpus Christi Sunday where we ponder the Eucharist and Jesus’ words to us in the 6th Chapter of John’s Gospel. I meant to post this – a repost, actually, from April of 2006. BUSTER AND THE GIFT FREELY GIVEN After Mass this evening Buster and I headed out for a [...]

Memories of God…

Excerpt from God and the World; A Conversation between Peter Seewald and Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger. Seewald: Is faith, in principle, always present in man? Ratzinger: So far as we can learn about the history of mankind, through excavations right back into prehistory, we can see that there has always been an idea of God. The [...]

Jesus in the Eucharist – UPDATED

Poster available at catholicposter.com I’m actually working on a piece answering various questions/rants that were sent my way during Benedict’s visit, but I haven’t had time yet to really put it together. But first and foremost I can answer this one question, which I was asked several times: Do you really, truly, actually believe that [...]

Madonna, DV Code and Milk & Honey

I’ve had some emails wondering, “Anchoress, how come you’re not writing much about The DaVinci Code? How come you’re not outraged about Madonna’s latest provocation?” Well…actually, I have written – or more correctly I’ve linked to Amy Welborn’s writing – about the DaVinci fraud and I mentioned the pathetic Madonna here. Why haven’t I written [...]

Buster and “The gift freely given…”

After Mass this evening Buster and I headed out for a quick hamburger and somehow the discussion came up about how the Holy Eucharist is sometimes accepted at Mass by someone only to remain unconsumed and spirited out of the church for use in various – always nefarious – ways. “How exactly,” Buster asked me. [...]