An email came in the other day which showed some confusion about the role of grace, faith and good works in our salvation. The Catholic was worried because a friend said salvation was by grace alone. I think he confused this with the Protestant heresy that salvation is by faith alone. Then the Protestants protest that Catholics think salvation is by good works alone. The puzzle can be solved when you remove the word “alone” from the discussion. That little... Read more

What if we were to actually breathe as much hell fire into the world and growl out the gospel like we meant it? Read more

My post about a priest and a sports car raised more comments over at Facebook than almost anything I have written in the past. The opinions were about 50-50. Many saying, “Go ahead Father. The people who care don’t matter and the people who matter don’t care.” Others were more cautious, saying that even if the sports car was less expensive than the sedate sedan I presently drive I should not get the sports car because it casts the wrong... Read more

Should a priest drive a sports car? Read more

The Catholic News Agency reports here that the ARCIC (Anglican Roman Catholic International Commission) met in Germany to discuss ecclesiology. This is code for “let’s get together and talk about the dwindling number of things on which we agree.” Once again our heroes have come up with an “agreed statement”. Unfortunately the article doesn’t have much detail about the statement itself but there is a link to another document which explains their modus operandi. Here’s a snippet: …It examines common theological... Read more

Anybody who reads this blog knows I am not a fan of Donald Trump, but the "beheading" stunt of Kathy Griffin was not only outrageous and offensive, but it was simply overwhelmingly stupid and crass. Read more

The majority of the world's population is more motivated by their religion than their politics. Read more

That little pill has changed everything. The effect of birth control and a contraceptive culture has altered our world in ways we could never have expected. Think for a moment about the effect contraception has had on the number of vocations to the priesthood and religious life. First of all, if a family has ten kids it is more likely that they are going to be happy for a few of them to pursue the priesthood or religious life. Mothers... Read more

Maybe I’ve spent too much time on Facebook, but why is everybody so darned offended all the time? Traditionalist Catholics are constantly getting on their high horse. Then its the feminist and homosexualists who are stomping off in high dudgeon. Next it is the Liberals or the Eastern Orthodox or the Lutherans or the college students or the environmentalists. You name it. Everybody everywhere seems to be the hurt, offended victim. Why is this? Its because of the dictatorship of... Read more