Why I Am Catholic
Then covering up for sinners committing crimes makes you an accessory to the crime. (more…) Read more
Then covering up for sinners committing crimes makes you an accessory to the crime. (more…) Read more
It’s St. Crispin’s Day! Which means it’s time for my favorite speech penned by William Shakespeare. See, the Battle of Agincourt occurred on the Feast of Sts. Crispin and Crispinian, which back before I was Catholic I would only have known this day as October 25th. But I knew about the Battle of Agincourt because it is renowned as an almost miraculous victory of a small English army, a long way from home, over a vastly superior French one (on... Read more
It’s St. Crispin’s Day. Before I was a Catholic, I wouldn’t have know this, or that there were two men being commemorated. So who are Crispin and Crispinian? Christian twin brothers, martyred in the year 285 or 286. Turning to the always open YIMCatholic Bookshelf, I found this legendary story on the two saints in Jesuit Fr. Francis Xavier Weninger’s Lives of the Saints. Here’s what he reports, (more…) Read more
This morning, I’ve been firing test shots from the gun deck to make sure all the link thingies for Networked Blogs are working. If you have been bombarded on Facebook and Twitter lately, that’s the reason. I’m firing this post off to see if it goes right down the pickle barrel too. If it does, all systems will be “go” and YIMCatholic 2.0 will be “good to go.” If it doesn’t, I’ll go back to the range for more practice.... Read more
Welcome to the first MfM post since moving here to Patheos. See that hurtling piece of machinery above? That’s what the good ship YIMCatholic looked like this week. She’s a Transformer, see? Usually a wind powered, bluff bowed vessel good for 12-15 knots, but sometimes, she goes ballistic like the bird you see above. We’ll get to the reason why later, but first let’s put that picture to some music, (more…) Read more
“Holy God, Holy Mighty One, Holy Immortal One, have mercy on us and on the whole world.” Now, as Pope Benedict has declared the coming year as the Year of Faith, Fr. Louis explains clearly and simply what faith means. What follows are thoughts from the prologue of his “The Silent Life,” published in 1957. I came across these words a few years ago, when I was reading all I could that Merton had written. When I read them, I... Read more
Something like that. Have a look at what follows. It’s where modern art meets the inspiration of the Holy Spirit. Are any of these artists Catholics? I have no idea, but I do know that these inspired men produce works that well over with Truth, Goodness, and Beauty. (more…) Read more
I was just over at YIMCatholic 1.0 looking for something in the archives, when I noticed a milestone for the blog has been reached on this day: 500,000 page views?! How accurate is that doo-hickey (way down below the Holy Family==>>) ? I really have no idea. But it does gives me a neat snapshot of the world like this, (more…) Read more
And “bad news” for Planned Parenthood. Tears of joy from Christ Community Health Services practice administrator Shantelle Leatherwood! The Memphis Commercial Appeal reports, (more…) Read more
Sister Celeste Marie Botellop, Principal of Flintridge Sacred Heart Academy standing with the 2012 Rose Queen, Drew Washington and Flintridge Sacred Heart Academy students at Tournament House. The Pasadena Tournament of Roses named Drew Helen Washington as the 94th Rose Queen today at the Tournament House Tuesday, October 18, 2011. (more…) Read more
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