We’re getting snippets of this, and snippets of that out of the Synod on the Family. One word that has appeared and is floating around like one of those word bubbles above characters heads in a cartoon is gradualism. Even John Allen over at Crux, has made note of the sudden uptick in gradualism talk. “Gradualism … seemed on the verge of being stricken fem the official lexicon, is back with a vengeance,” he tell us. Unfortunately, ordinary pew-sitting... Read more
They didn’t do it directly. It was an indirect, “if you say so” kind of move. The United States Supreme Court allowed rulings from lower courts in favor of legalizing gay marriage stand. This decision, which affected rulings in five states, simply said that the Court would not address these lower court rulings. The rulings had overturned state laws in five states that limited marriage to one man and one woman. This decision not to decide on the part of... Read more
My mother was an amazing woman, loving wife to my father and adoring grandmother. She made me feel loved everyday. President Obama has set off a bit of a firestorm by sending a congratulatory message to the mosque where Alton Nolen, the man who committed the Oklahoma beheading, worshipped. The message itself is a routine congratulatory message to Muslims during the celebration of Eid al-Adha. I don’t know if the White House extends similar congratulatory messages to Oklahoma... Read more
It has always been the habit of Catholics in danger and in troublous times to fly for refuge to Mary. Pope Leo XIII Today is the feast of Our Lady of the Rosary. It’s alternate name is the Feast of Our Lady of Victory. This feast commemorates the battle of Lepanto, which took place in 1571, and which CatholicCulture.org says is the battle that saved Europe. In our politically-correct, revisionist history that we use in place of real history these... Read more
This is a First Friday. Let’s take time to go to confession. Read more
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