…see the gospel as good news. You won’t get far preaching a Savior to people who don’t know they need one. – Tom Kreitzberg Many Americans are now to the point where they believe, if anything, that God needs our forgiveness–and they are not particularly inclined to grant it. How hard it is for the rich man to enter heaven. Read more

from Fr. Brundage, the guy who tried Fr. Lawrence Murphy: Milwaukee church judge clarifies that he was aware of order to halt trial against abusive priest: Father Brundage issues clarifying statement Read more

Mary Kochan at Catholic Exchange tells the story of her journey from the Jehovah’s Witnesses to the Catholic Faith. Read more

Larry Burkhardt is an Evangelical financial guru. This is pretty funny: Read more

A friend sends along this excerpt from Pascal’s Pensees on atheism. I am particularly struck by his call for Catholics to have superabundant charity for atheists since they have so little for themselves. Never thought about it that way. … Let them at least learn what is the religion they attack, before attacking it. If this religion boasted of having a clear view of God, and of possessing it open and unveiled, it would be attacking it to say that... Read more

A friend writes: I’ve been looking all over the place for canned unicorn meat, and I finally found it next to the Vienna sausages in the “Mechanically Separated Meat Products Aisle” at the grocery store. It’s farmed, raised, and packaged by nuns in Ireland! Also, be sure to check out My First Bacon, Squeeze Bacon, the Dharma Initiative Alarm Clock, and TaunTaun Sleeping Bag!! In other April Fool’s news…(hey, this is my job. Bing pays me to do this). The... Read more

of the Top 15 Misconceptions about Catholics. I don’t know that I’d agree that these are the *top* 15 (I’d include stuff like “Catholics are afraid of sex” and “celibacy causes abuse” and “The Crusades were launched by bloodthirsty Catholics against peaceful Arab shepherds” and “Constantine invented the Catholic Church” and “Paul invented the Catholic Church”. But that’s just me. And that’s just scratching the surface. Read more

for the persecuted Church in India. Read more

or “An enemy is just a friend who wants to kill you.” Read more

Here’s a little piece I did a few years back on why the Resurrection makes more sense than all the alternative explanations. Read more