A reader writes: Please pray for my Grandmother who fell and broke her hip this morning.Thank you! Father, hear our prayer through your Son Jesus Christ! Mother Mary, pray for her! Read more

She writes: I just need to let people know that the Intentional Disciples blog is unavailable temporarily as we get our new website up and running. We will be back at our old pop stand (blog.siena.org) hopefully be up in the next day or so. I’ll be here for you, Sherry. Standing in the gap and providing blog content while you enter your travails. Intentional Disciple fans: despair not! Sherry will return. This. I. Vow. Read more

Here’s parts two and three. Read more

manfully attempts to reason with people who are singularly resistant to reason on the subject of alleged “worship” of Mary. Some Protestant folk are so terrified of her that they simply cannot stop telling Catholics what they believe long enough to ask Catholics what they believe. It’s really rather weird. For some reason, Catholic discussions of the distinctions between latria, hyperdulia and dulia strike quite a number of Evangelicals as some sort of subterfuge for “Mary worship”. But the fact... Read more

Here’s Abp Dolan on the bleedin’ obvious anti-Catholic bias of our newscritters: a fact made all the more blatant by the fact that the NY Times wouldn’t publish this. All the news that fits their agenda. Which reminds me: you probably heard about the Pope taking time out of his schedule to “condemn Halloween”, right? I mean, it’s gotta be true, doesn’t it? Everybody knows he’s a Nazi. Maureen Dowd said so. And so he must hate fun, right? After... Read more

Catholic Convert, Cancer Patient, Pens Little Guide for the Dying Read more

You. MUST. Approve! Or Else! Read more

In fact, we have proof that he does in this wonderful story from Bryan, TX about a Planned Parenthood Director who quit on October 6 after eight years of working for Murder Inc. and is now a huge proponent of the pro-life cause: Planned Parenthood has been a part of Abby Johnson’s life for the past eight years; that is until last month, when Abby resigned. Johnson said she realized she wanted to leave, after watching an ultrasound of an... Read more

Epic nerdiness! Read more

feels blessed to live in interesting times. I think it was St. Thomas More who said that the times are never so evil that we cannot contrive to be good in them. God is always still around and he’s willing to help if we’re willing to be helped. Read more