First published on April 5, 2011, fast forward to the good parts. It’s Holy Week! We are officially past the half-way point of the Lenten Season. Before you know it, it will be Holy Week. As a convert who entered the Church on Holy Saturday in the Year of Our Lord 2008, I’ll never forget that experience. (more…) Read more
Courtesy of Rumer Goddin’s opening paragraph from This House of Brede, (more…) Read more
Today Pope Francis and the Pope Emeritus met at Castel Gandolfo. In terms of historically rare moments, it doesn’t get much better than this. (more…) Read more
This is the rare Lent were there will be seven movies (maybe I was skipping the first Friday before?), so we kind of have a bonus one. Tonight is the bonus film. It’s the war movie that I’ve never seen, based on a book I cursorily looked over back when I was in the Marines. (more…) Read more
It’s been pretty tough for supporters of traditional marriage to be able to get their side of the story covered in the mainstream media. Richard Wolf of USA Today proves to be the exception to the rule, in his story published yesterday. I’ll get you started here, (more…) Read more
..if you are anywhere near Saint Martha’s House (Domus Sanctæ Marthæ), that is. This is one of those cases where the photographs arrive before the backstory*. He didn’t just sneak in and worship in the back row, though. He celebrated the Mass too… (more…) Read more
Yesterday I shared a little update on what has been cooking on the HHS Mandate front, while we’ve been caught up in the Papal resignation, conclave, and installation. Thankfully, the good folks in the legal department of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops kept their eyes, and minds, glued to the chess board. Yesterday, they published a press release with a link to the public comment the Conference made to the latest iteration of the HHS Mandate “accommodation.” In... Read more
So, you’re getting tired of all the “the Pope is just a normal guy” stories? Well, Joe Six-Pack isn’t. Here is the latest one from the Catholic News Service, (more…) Read more
Joe Six-Pack, USMC (Ret.) here. You probably have never heard of the mission with that name. That’s understandable, as I just made it up, though the operation is ongoing, embarrassing, and tragic. “Operation Enduring Travesty” is what I call what is going on with the prisoners our nation has incarcerated at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, aka “GITMO.” (more…) Read more
More good news regarding relations with our Orthodox brethren. Nat da Polis, of AsiaNews shares it here. Vatican City (AsiaNews) – The ecumenical patriarch of Constantinople has invited Pope Francis to travel with him to the Holy Land next year to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the embrace between Patriarch Athenagoras and Paul VI, the pioneers of Catholic-Orthodox dialogue. (more…) Read more
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