Deacon Greg Kandra found this and I like it so much I’m putting it here. It’s exemplifies my feelings about much of the legislation that the Oklahoma House of Representatives has passed this year. What does it exemplify in your life? Read more
Deacon Greg Kandra found this and I like it so much I’m putting it here. It’s exemplifies my feelings about much of the legislation that the Oklahoma House of Representatives has passed this year. What does it exemplify in your life? Read more
In my Father’s house there are many mansions. I go now to prepare a place a place for you. I will come again to take you to myself, that where I am, you may be also. Why do you stand staring up into heaven. This Jesus you saw being taken up from you will come back … Here’s hoping you have a happy and blessed Feast of the Ascension! Read more
Masha Gessen is the author of The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin. She also writes for The New Republic, New Statesman, Slate, Vanity Fair and US News and World Report. It made sense that she would be asked to participate in the Sydney Writer’s Festival in Sydney, Australia. Masha Gessen is also a gay activist who has been a member of the board of directors for the Moscow LGBT organization Triangle. So it also made... Read more
Gun control has become a metaphor for the way our Congress doesn’t work these days. P From the Associated Press: WASHINGTON (AP) — Senators backing gun control are discussing ways to revise the defeated Senate background check bill to help win the votes they need to resuscitate the measure. Among the changes they might consider are limiting the fees buyers would pay at gun shows, adding provisions dealing with the mentally ill and altering language extending the background checkrequirement to all online sales,... Read more
Our Church needs vocations. It needs men and women who will commit their lives to Jesus in the absolute and total way that taking vows implies. We need priests to bring us the sacraments. We also need sisters to go out in the world and bring the love of Christ to suffering people. However, before anything else, these vowed ones of God must be true to Christ and to His Church. I want a priest who will show me the... Read more
Pope Francis will canonize 800 martyrs this Sunday. The 800 martyrs were killed at the hands of Ottoman soldiers in Otranto, in Southern Italy in 1480 for refusing to convert to Islam. Pope Benedict XVI recognized them as martyrs “killed out of hatred for the faith” in 2007. According to an article in the Telegraph, the Archbishop of Otranto was cut to pieces with a scimitar before the 800 were murdered. The Hagia Sophia; largest Christian church in the world... Read more
I once was a United Methodist. After my conversion experience, I had no idea what to do next. No one “led” me to Jesus except Jesus Himself. So, I waited around for a month, waiting for this Being who was keeping company with me to guide me. When it came into my mind to go to St Luke’s Methodist Church, I got up the next Sunday and went. That was the beginning of nine fruitful years in which I... Read more
I’m going to pull down certain comments. The ones I will do this with are those that I feel I need to supply some sort of answer. I cannot make this new system work so that I can do that properly. This is complicated by the fact that I am totally snowed under on my job right now. I am not deleting your comments — although it will look like that for some of them. I’m just struggling to get... Read more
Pope Francis will consecrate his petrine ministry to Our Lady of Fatima as part of the program of the International Pilgrimage of May 12/13. Mary appeared to three shepherd children in Fatima, Portugal 96 years ago this month. She prophesied the fall of Russia to communism and promised that the way to undo this was to consecrate Russia to her Immaculate Heart. Pope John Paul II did this. The results are history. The shrine at Fatima is a beautiful place.... Read more
Your comments aren’t gone. They’re just sleeping. Public Catholic is just now undergoing the surgery I told you about a few weeks ago. Your comments are being transferred to a new system, which means they’ve gone … wherever this stuff goes when computers are doing their high jinks. Everything will right itself in a few days. Your comments will come back from dreamland and we can go back to cussing and discussing as usual. Read more
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