Note: I published this post a few years’ back. It seemed apt to republish it today. “Crazy People” The folder with this name sits on my hard drive. Whenever I get an email that merits the title, I drag it into the “Crazy People” file. After 16 years in public office, the file has swollen to gigs of nutty emails that most likely would embarrass their senders if they read them today. I have a theory that people... Read more
Over at Friendly Atheist, Hemant Mehta published a post concerning a couple of ominous notes received by an atheist leader at an “atheist church.” Public Catholic reader Lark brought this to my attention and asked me to comment on it. I have zero problems saying that the nutso practice of putting threatening letters in people’s mailboxes is not only a federal crime, it is wrong. There’s a lot I don’t know about this note-in-the-mailbox scenario. According to Mr Mehta’s post,... Read more
You can buy a copy of Trusting God with St Therese here. Does news of ISIS, the Ebola virus and the Synod on the Family fill you with anxiety? Are you downcast and disheartened by the unraveling of our society and its descent into amoral self-destruction? Maybe your problems are closer to home. Do you worry about your children’s friends? Are you caring for a sick child or an elderly relative? Does it seem that you’ll never make enough... Read more
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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