Today is President’s Day… You can read about presidents in these posts… Presidential Fun on Election Day Ask Not What Your Country Can Do For You on Inauguration Day “I was almost late here today, but I had a very good taxi driver who brought me through the traffic jam. I was going to give him a very large tip and tell him to vote Democratic and then I remember some advice Senator Green had given me, so I gave... Read more
Aww, Sweet Happy Valentine’s Day. The day when lovers give each other luscious, hopefully fair-trade, scrumptious delicious chocolate, overpriced flowers that will soon die after a week and funny sentimental cards that will find refuge in a stack of papers somewhere. Valentine’s Day is named after St. Valentine who was a priest and physician, who along with St. Marius and his family gave comfort to the dying martyrs under the brutal persecution of Emperor Claudius II, the not so loving... Read more
Something Catholics tend to do quite frequently in online discourse is read a headline of an article and not the article itself. They then make a judgement, reach a verdict and pronounce a sentence and then proceed to carry it out. These internet warriors think their the Catholic Judge Dredd. This was recently done to Fr. Casey Cole which you can read about In Defence of Father Casey Cole. So I ask readers to actually read all the way through... Read more
If you haven’t already, Consider reading The Catholic Bard The Catholic Bard is the one blog I love to read. I recommend everyone read it. -Pope Francis (Leader of the Catholic Church) Who Are We? Mark is the Catechist and his Wife Kristin is the Carmelite. At The Catholic Bard we talk about Books, Movies and other forms of Entertainment Mark: Kristin what do you think the book The Ickabog (2020) is about. Kristin: The icabog is an Island off the coast of... Read more
I came home from work and wanted to dash to my room to write up my Week in Review, but my wife asked me to spend time with her. She asked if spending time with her watching Lost was more important then writing to a bunch of strangers. Of course I told her it was. I sometimes put off writing this until the last minute and then I have to go through the week and try to pick out the... Read more
Every year thousands of authors sit at thousands of computers and possibly some typewriters, and pound out thousands of books. These books get published and they hope that lots of people will buy them. It’s tough to keep track of all these good and bad books that come out and are sold on Amazon, Barnes and Noble and other places on regular daily basis. Some of our favorite authors or book series may get missed in the hustle and bustle... Read more
Recently a video appeared in social media feeds by a youngish looking Catholic Franciscan priest called ‘Abortion is Not that Important”. WHAT! How can a religious say such heretical anti-Catholic things? How dare he… Why? Wait a minute and calm down. He is very pro-life and his open life on social media proves that. Please read on and be educated about who this young man is and what he is about. Get to know him before you excommunicate him from... Read more
This is a week in which many things happen for the unborn, the inmate on death row, Pope Francis gives a lot of papal wisdom, where we remembered victims of one of the greatest evils this world has ever known, Bernie Memes continue to spread joy across the internet, and I experienced life at Half-A-Century. Welcome to the Catholic Bard’s Week in Review January 25 – January 31, 2021 Their Art Teacher is Dead, but I’m Half a Century Old... Read more
Not too long ago, out of the random blue, when my wife and I were dining at IHOP and taking part of the $ 5.00 menu that is available after 2, for fun I started reading to her some book titles that came out in 2020. I asked her what she thought the book was about based on the title. She would then tell me her thoughts on what the book was about and then afterward I read to her... Read more
Just recently my wife and I got into a rather spirited argument over a grave topic. She was looking at caskets online and wanted to buy an inexpensive one on eBay for $400.00 and keep it in our basement. I told her it’s not necessary right now and to not buy it. I wanted to bury the conversation because I considered it a dead issue. A dead issue… Ok. She was preparing for her possible demise. She is not on... Read more
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