… I suspect stories like this will start to become more commonplace. At least I hope they do. Not to mean that I enjoy reading about women struggling with the guilt and depression associated with being post-abortive. I mean that I hope more women who have a wide audience and the public’s attention, like Hollywood celebrities, will start speaking out against abortion with regularity. When they share their painful stories it is a powerful witness. With each new headline the... Read more
Click here to subscribe for daily email reminders. Daily Opening Prayers: Begin each day of the Novena to Mary, Undoer of Knots, with the Sign of the Cross. Make an Act of Contrition. You can use any form; simply ask God to pardon your sins and make a firm purpose of amendment not to commit them again. Optional, but recommended: Pray the first three decades of the Rosary, with the appropriate mysteries for the day: Joyful (Mondays, Saturdays, Sundays of... Read more
Click here to subscribe for daily email reminders. Daily Opening Prayers: Begin each day of the Novena to Mary, Undoer of Knots, with the Sign of the Cross. Make an Act of Contrition. You can use any form; simply ask God to pardon your sins and make a firm purpose of amendment not to commit them again. Optional, but recommended: Pray the first three decades of the Rosary, with the appropriate mysteries for the day: Joyful (Mondays, Saturdays, Sundays of... Read more
… I’m a convert, see, and in my memory I only have two popes. Benedict and Francis. So I have to ask, has it always been like this? Love Benedict and you’re old stodgy fart stuck in the dark ages. Hate Benedict and you hate tradition. Love Francis and you are liberal, neo-con little ‘c’ Catholic. Hate Francis and again, you’re a stodgy old fart stuck in the middle ages. Are we not allowed to have an opinion about the... Read more
Click here to subscribe for daily email reminders. Daily Opening Prayers: Begin each day of the Novena to Mary, Undoer of Knots, with the Sign of the Cross. Make an Act of Contrition. You can use any form; simply ask God to pardon your sins and make a firm purpose of amendment not to commit them again. Optional, but recommended: Pray the first three decades of the Rosary, with the appropriate mysteries for the day: Joyful (Mondays, Saturdays, Sundays of... Read more
… They scare me to death. Maybe that’s why I’ve never finished one. Ever. It just seems like every time I start one things start to happen. Things like your internet inexplicably dying for three days and losing your cell phone and the check engine light that keeps coming back on. Oh, and thinking your son has Lyme Disease. Talk about a crazy past three days. At the rate I’m going I’m afraid to see what next week has in... Read more
Click here to subscribe for daily email reminders. Daily Opening Prayers: Begin each day of the Novena to Mary, Undoer of Knots, with the Sign of the Cross. Make an Act of Contrition. You can use any form; simply ask God to pardon your sins and make a firm purpose of amendment not to commit them again. Optional, but recommended: Pray the first three decades of the Rosary, with the appropriate mysteries for the day: Joyful (Mondays, Saturdays, Sundays of... Read more
Click here to subscribe for daily email reminders. Daily Opening Prayers: Begin each day of the Novena to Mary, Undoer of Knots, with the Sign of the Cross. Make an Act of Contrition. You can use any form; simply ask God to pardon your sins and make a firm purpose of amendment not to commit them again. Optional, but recommended: Pray the first three decades of the Rosary, with the appropriate mysteries for the day: Joyful (Mondays, Saturdays, Sundays of... Read more
… A couple of bloggers here on the Catholic channel are participating in this novena and I thought, how wonderful. This exact same novena is what a priest once prescribed to overcome a particularly poisonous spiritual problem I was having. Am having. Because yeah, I have never finished a novena. Ever. When I die they can canonize me patron saint of the failed novena. So this is my effort to finally finish a novena in full and a chance to... Read more
… Sadly, I wonder if I should make this an annual fund raising campaign each summer. I’m embarrassed to admit that I did this very same thing last year, but I do so love my son and I’ll do anything for him. And that anything means swallowing my pride every twelve months to ask you guys for a little help to get my son to summer camp. You see, last year he had such a fantastic time at Scout camp... Read more
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