Prayer, study and peaceful action. What are you going to do for the Fortnight for Freedom 2013? Bishop Francis Malooly of Maryland gives one of the most clear and easily understood outlines of the issues the Church and all Christians are facing in America today. Read more
Anna’s beautiful conversion story that answers many questions about our faith. Watch and be blessed. Read more
Pope Emeritus Benedict gave a brief interview to a German journalist recently. The journalist’s description of the Pope Emeritus paints a portrait of someone who is frail but functioning. “I’m fine,” the Pope Emeritus said, “I pray and read. I live like a monk.” I hope he is happy and at peace in his retirement. The Church and the world needs his prayers. Read more
Pope Francis tossed away his prepared remarks at an audience this week because, he said, they were boring. Rather than making a speech to the group of children who were on stage with him, he let them ask him unrehearsed, unedited, questions. The result is one of the most charming — and revealing — exchanges I’ve ever seen with any pope. One little girl asked the Holy Father if he had wanted to be pope. He said no, he hadn’t... Read more
Pope Francis tossed away his prepared remarks this week because, he said, they were boring. Rather than making a speech to the group of children who were at the Vatican for an audience, he let them ask him unrehearsed, unedited, questions. The result is one of the most charming — and revealing — exchanges I’ve ever seen with any pope. One little girl asked the Holy Father if he wanted to be pope. He said no, he hadn’t wanted to... Read more
The nightmares are back. I had lunch with a life-long friend today. Our mothers were pregnant with us at the same time. That’s how long we’ve known one another. My friend got caught in the storm last week and she confided that she’s had tornado nightmares since then. I don’t think I have. I sort of remember some kind of storm dream, but I don’t think it was a full-bore tornado nightmare. It may be have been, but I don’t... Read more
What does President Obama have to say about sweeping millions of Americans’ emails and phone calls into a government database? Here it is. I’m also including a video of a news report about it. Please try to think all this through, put aside partisan ideas and focus on our country. I know this is tough, but it’s what we all need to do. What do you think about all this? Read more
I imagine that most presidents reach a point where they feel as if the White House is one gigantic, well decorated chicken coop and all — or at least many — of their chickens are coming flapping home. President Obama appears to be in the chickens-come-flapping-home phase of his presidency. It turns out that his chickens look a lot like vultures and the carrion they’ve been feeding on is the Constitution. Richard Nixon has his infamous “Enemies List” of... Read more
This week’s 6 Quick Takes on Christian persecution around the globe include kidnappings, murders, beatings, false imprisonment and legal discrimination. In other words, these quick takes are the usual sad story of what Christians endure for Christ just about everywhere on this planet. Two of the stories involve legal discrimination in the “Christian” West. Both of them are instances of governments applying legal penalties for Christians who seek to practice their faith in the workplace. Ironically, they are examples of... Read more
One hundred thousand people are Murdered. Martyred. For Christ. Every year. Many more Christians are Raped. Enslaved. Beaten. Tortured. Imprisoned. Abducted. Displaced. For Christ. Every year. Meanwhile, here in the “Christian” West, Christians are Censored. Mocked. Reviled. Forced to violate their faith under penalty of law. Harrassed. Silenced. Marginalized. For Christ. Every year. That is the message Vatican spokesman Msgr Silvano Maria Tomasi brought to the United Nations earlier this week. Msgr Tomasi expressed the Holy See’s... Read more
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