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May 2015

May 26, 2015
  As Ireland votes overwhelmingly for same sex marriage and the rest of the Western...
May 25, 2015
...clap your hands. You  may remember that episode in Peter Pan when Tinkerbell is about to perish...
May 25, 2015
Stop and think for a moment. Why are we commanded (its not an option) to...
May 24, 2015
My article at The Imaginative Conservative this week compares St Therese of Lisieux with Friedrich...
May 24, 2015
Is it ‘me and Jesus’ or ‘me and the Church’? This is the question of...
May 22, 2015
Some atheists trying to pick a fight with padre, but I never argue with atheists...
May 22, 2015
Earlier in the week I write a light hearted post saying that one of the...
May 21, 2015
My article at Aleteia this week explores the communications problems Pope Francis is having. This...
May 21, 2015
You might remember that in C.S.Lewis' Narnia stories Mr Tumnus the Faun recounts how they...
May 20, 2015
I've written a fair bit about the immature reactions of blaming other for our problems....
May 20, 2015
Here's a grand post with pictures of the top eleven Catholic beards. As it happens,...
May 20, 2015
You know the old story: An old guy grumbles to the priest, "I don't come...
May 20, 2015
George Weigel shoots straight here about the crisis in German Catholicism. There is a fundamental...
May 20, 2015
There are probably no greater academic debating topics than the mysterious life of the Bard...
May 19, 2015
It occurred to me the other day that one of the things that is so...
May 19, 2015
From the Archives There are many problems in the Catholic Church that might be thought...
May 19, 2015
  My latest article for National Catholic Register draws uncomfortable parallels between the comfy church-state relationship...
May 16, 2015
My essay for Imaginative Conservative this week called "Apocalypse Now and Then" focuses on the...
May 16, 2015
For Ascensiontide, today's post is an excerpt from my book The Quest for the Creed. We...
May 15, 2015
I was a vicar on the Isle of Wight in England when I was asked...
May 15, 2015
A little quote from Pope St John Paul II has changed my perspective and my...
May 14, 2015
My article at Aleteia this week continues my meditations on the messages of Fatima, but...
May 13, 2015
It is sobering to remember that the visions of Fatima are not just the wishful...
May 13, 2015
Jennifer Rubin at the Washington Post today points out the obvious about Hillary: "Once again...
May 13, 2015
Today Catholics celebrate the anniversary of the apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary to three...
May 12, 2015
You know the definition of insanity - when you repeat the same action over and...
May 12, 2015
Everybody's buzzing about this new survey which charts the decline of institutionalized religion in the...
May 12, 2015
A reader writes to ask if it is wrong to pray to God that his...
May 11, 2015
One of the things which gets me charged up during the Easter season are all...
May 10, 2015
My essay this week at Imaginative Conservative explains why "the dictatorship of relativism" is  not...
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