…at Holy Family parish in Kirkland, tomorrow night, September 13 at 7:00 PM! I will be there to talk about Mary, her role in the life and devotion of the Church, and they way in which she, the last gift God gave us before he left this life, shows us how to be better disciples. I look forward to seeing you there! Read more
Here’s a blurb on it: HUNTINGTON, Indiana, August 30, 2017 — Medical issues, broken marriages, financial struggles, addiction and general dissatisfaction all plague our society with anxiety and fear. In fact, studies show 33% of people in the United States feel they are living with extreme stress with 48% feeling their stress has increased over the past five years. Tied in Knots: Finding Peace in Today’s World (Our Sunday Visitor, 2017), by Greg Willits, is the positive response our restless... Read more
Any dolt can go on the Beeb and commit blasphemy like Richard Dawkins. It takes absolutely no courage at all to spit on Christians and especially Catholics among the Chattering Classes on the Sceptered (or for that matter, Emerald) Isle. Here’s what takes real stones: and, on a related (and emphatically NSFW) note, here is comedian Jonathan Pie on the asphyxiating smugness that greets people like Rees-Mogg and creates breeding grounds for people like Donald Trump: Read more
are “insulting” and “ridiculous”: Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York said claims by a former senior adviser to President Trump that Catholic bishops advocate for immigrants for economic benefit and to fill pews are “preposterous and rather insulting.” Speaking to SiriusXM’s The Catholic Channel on Thursday, the cardinal dismissed the comments made to CBS News by Breitbart editor Stephen Bannon, saying “I don’t really care to go into what I think is a preposterous and rather insulting statement that the only reason we bishops... Read more
Please pray especially for reader James Therry and his wife Marina, who are in a building right on Miami Beach. Also, please pray for Brandon Vogt and his family, in Orlando. Thank you! Read more
In this corner, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, bringing her astonishing mind reading powers to bear on Amy Coney Barrett, Trump’s nominee to the Seventh Circuit: The Daily Caller has useful background. Feinstein’s comment doesn’t come out of the blue. Amy Coney Barrett, Trump’s nominee to the Seventh Circuit, co-wrote a law review article 20 years ago arguing that in certain circumstances a Catholic judge who conscientiously objects to capital punishment should recuse herself rather than enter an order of execution against a... Read more
…and some of the weirder anti-Catholic history of the US. Did you know that the original “wetbacks” were Irish? The term only got transferred to Sam’s Mexican ancestors later. But the term was always about Catholics in either case. Also, did you know that in the 20s authorities rounded up and deported American citizens for no crime other than being brown? Me neither. Anyway, hear the whole wide-ranging conversation on the our Catholic duties to the alien, the orphan, and... Read more
The election of 1864 quickly became a referendum on the Civil War itself and no small part of the argument of the Peace Party was that the fog of war had transformed the Northern effort from a battle to save the Union to a battle to free the slaves. Understand: this was regarded as an accusation against Lincoln and not (as it would later become) a form of praise. Why, it was asked, was it the job of the white... Read more
A reader writes: I wanted to ask if you could ask for prayers for me and my family. I was recently fired from my job after facing a situation of bullying and harassment. I am in the process of suing my employer and supervisor and can only hope this behavior is exposed. Lots of people have to deal with situations like this, but I feel an extra burden because of the extreme effect on my husband, who is schizophrenic. I... Read more
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