Medugorje and the Maciel Effect. This stuff, by the way, applies to all sorts of other educated guesses and judgments about matters of which I have no direct experience. I too will be quite happy to be shown wrong should the Church decide that Medugorje is genuine. Till then, I’m morally certain that will never happen. But I still could be wrong. Read more

…can see the anti-Catholic totalitarianism that is at work among the New Atheists whose supposed care for The Children leads them to equate sexual abuse with granting parents the right to raise their children in their religious tradition: A new kind of society is being solidified on the back of exposing abusive priests, one in which scaremongering supersedes facts, where people redefine themselves as permanently damaged victims, where freedom of thought is problematised, and where parents are considered suspect for... Read more

to Morning’s Minion. May your mother’s soul rest in peace through Christ our Lord, Amen! Read more

One of the weird tendencies I’m seeing these days is the growing notion that, by leaving, one is making oneself a gutsy advocate for change. Whether it is the Catholic who announces that she is abandoning the Church but keeping her Catholic identity or the Tea Partier who loves the United States so much that he wants to leave it, or the governor who cares about her devotion to duty so much that she abandons her post to chase after... Read more

Mahony is being replaced! Especially entertaining is the fact that the new guy is an Opus Dei priest. That should be fun! I sense some change is in the wind. However, I am not one of those people who thinks that a new Archbishop means instant and miraculous renovation of entrenched bureacracy. So when the 2011 or 2012 or 2013 LA Religious Education Conference continues on with their tradition of bizarre crapola, I am not going to lament that the... Read more

that the media has launched under the guise of Caring for The Children. Read more

Sacred or Secular Music at Mass? Read more

Axe Cop’s got it covered. I gotta get me one of them cool tyrannosaurs. Read more

has died. May his soul and all the souls of the faithful departed, through the mercy of God, rest in peace through Christ our Lord. Amen! Mary, Mother of all the baptized, pray for your child and welcome him into the Light of Christ. Read more

A reader writes: Would you please remember me in your prayers? I am going through a rough patch at work, a lot of personality conflict, and it’s making me miserable. I’m trying to bear wrongs patiently, and it’s a real challenge and I’m discouraged. Father, grant strength, consolation, wisdom and love to your son in this difficult hour. Help him to find resurrection at the other end of the tunnel and help him to live in peace, as far as... Read more