Charity Heroes: St. Vincent de Paul and Vogt

(Illustration by Pat McNamara) Tomorrow is the feast day of St. Vincent de Paul, and if you’re not familiar with his story or why he matters, you’ll want to avail yourself of Doctor-now-Professor Pat McNamara’s excellent and informative profile of this enterprising and surprising saint, who started on his path for all the wrong reasons: [...]

The Waning Trust in the Press — UPDATED

A while back, I asked my very frustrated mother-in-law why she voted for Barack Obama, and she shrugged, “I could only go by what I heard.” She meant the nightly network news shows, which she and Pop watch or listen to while they bustle around the kitchen. It didn’t matter that a sister-in-law and I [...]

Debuting at The Catholic Answer – UPDATED

Look at that cover; Pope Benedict XVI and Jordan’s Prince Ghazi Muhammad bin Talal, taken during Benedict’s visit to the Holy Land in 2009. Given the headlines coming our way every day from an evolving Middle East, and what these changes mean for governments and churches, could it– or the cover story featuring an interview [...]

Catholics in the Comboxes

Msgr. Charles Pope has noted it: Recently however, I am getting more comments that are just plain rude, mean or unnecessarily personal. I have had to press the delete button more than I’d like. It is not just the use of profanity that is alarming (and that too is becoming more common), but it is [...]

More on Voris and RCTV

Lots of very ungenerous comments yesterday — detailing how Mark Shea is a heterodox-Michael-Voris hater — by people who were busily emoting, and ignoring the fact that yesterday morning, before most were even aware of the story, Shea was already defending Voris, and promising a beefed-up defense today. And today, he keeps his word, coming [...]

Comment-Free Fridays — UPDATED

Consider it a Friday fast, or a Friday sacrifice. I do not have time to monitor comments right now, and I’m just about sick to death of the fighting, the accusations, the foul (and all-too-easy/convenient) cries of “heresy” on one thread and “racist” on the other. I know we can do better than this. These [...]

The Voris Brouhaha

Because I’m having trouble keeping up with almost everything, right now, I am late to this story, which the deacon picked up last night, to whit: Michael Voris, the founder and host of RealCatholicTV, says he was completely unaware of recently discovered troubles within his organization, involving a staff apologist’s sexually explicit writings, and his [...]