Purity is power...
Last year I visited the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C. The gallery consists of a classical style building where they display paintings, and a vast geometric sprawl of building which houses modern art. I decided to start off exploring the modern collection. Red leatherette drainpipes were stuck on the wall...
7 Church seasons that you may not be aware of...
The "Little Crown" of the Blessed Virgin: A May devotion...
May is set aside as Mary’s Month, a time in which we honor the various privileges given the Mother of God by the three Persons of the Most Blessed Trinity. In the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite, this month concludes with the feast of the Queenship of the Blessed Virgin Mary, in which we recall the Coronation of our Lady as the Queen of heaven and earth...
SSPXers examining their consciences...
Be sure to check out this post on Rorate. It seems that priests within the SSPX are doing some self-examinations. From the May 2012 issue of Seignadou, the newsletter of the chaplaincy of the Society of Saint Pius X (SSPX) for the schools of the Traditional Dominican Sisters of Fanjeaux (France)
15 Spectacular Libraries in Europe...
An image of the Church from the Book of Ruth...
The story features three main Characters: Boaz, Ruth and Naomi. Boaz is clearly a picture (or “type”) of Christ. He is Born, and lives in Bethlehem, and he acts, ultimately, as Ruth’s “kinsman-redeemer” by rescuing her from her poverty and paying the price to cancel her debt. This of course is just what Christ...
PepsiCo stops using aborted fetal cell lines to test flavor enhancers...
Kristen Walker is fearless, funny, and pro-life...
I was going to write a post for today, but then one of my children got a mild case of food poisoning. While we were jammed into arena seats at a performance of Disney on Ice. I'll leave it to your imagination as to how that all played out, and will only remark that it's a shame that that $12 souvenir hat had to be put to such an unfortunate use.
Time Capsule: CBS journalist Mike Wallace tells truth about homosexuality in 1967 documentary...
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21 reasons to go to Confession...
What mercy looks like...
You could hear a pin drop in the auditorium when she started talking. This unassuming woman, a soft-spoken grandmother, or so we thought. A lion of truth, we would later see. She took us back in time, to a little girl with golden curls, whose smile shone like the summer sun. We felt that we were really there.
Study: College-age students are losing their faith at an alarming rate...
A new study coming out of Georgetown University reports that many in the younger generation known as “millennials” are abandoning orthodoxy at an alarming rate. The study focusing on 18-to-24-year-old Americans finds many rejecting religious doctrine, according to a joint survey from Georgetown University’s Berkley Center for Religion...
The laughter of Pope John Paul II...
How to ruin your marriage with NFP...
Couples who use NFP have an incredibly low rate of divorce, and many couples have reported that using NFP to space pregnancies has led to an increase of grace, happiness, and intimacy in their marriage. Sound too good to be true? It sure is! Oh, using NFP can strengthen your marriage, but that doesn't happen automatically. In fact...
Why Men Should Read More Fiction...
Music for Your Monday: Beatles Epicosity...
Oh, internet, you’re such a wonderful thing sometimes. This mashup/medley makes my Beatles loving heart do a hap-hap-happy dance (watch the annotations to see which parts of each song are playing at the same time). I also love this. I never thought that my favorite song of all time could be improved on, but in this video...
Can we please have our own Church?
When I was in junior high school, I went to watch Whitey Ford’s artistry on the mound at Yankee Stadium with a Jewish friend and his father. His mother made us some sandwiches to take along. A couple innings in, we pulled them out – quite lovely roast beef. But it was Friday. I was Catholic. As Jews with their own dietary disciplines...
The Holy Office puts the American sisters in the corner...
Forget Mormonism; the real story in the GOP right now is the rise of the Catholic cadre...
Get this entire Catholic website on CD-ROM...
The full contents of the New Advent website are available on CD-ROM. It includes the Catholic Encyclopedia, Church Fathers, Summa, Bible and more and it's only $19, with free shipping worldwide...
PDF: Bishop Morlino's warning letter to a dying parish...
“Have you been saved?” Seven lessons every Catholic should know about justification...
I have written before in these pages of the time when I was growing up in the southern part of the United States and how I would from time to time encounter young, protestant teens and adults who would excitedly take to the streets to witness for Christ. Now for Catholics who may not be familiar with the phrase, “witnessing for Christ”...
What difference does Heaven make?
If a thing makes no difference, it is a waste of time to think about it. We should begin, then, with the question, What difference does Heaven make to earth, to now, to our lives? The answer to the question is only the difference between hope and despair in the end...
The First Rule of Being Cool...
Have you heard the news? Barack Obama is cool! He’s not just cool, he’s way cool; the coolest thing ever! Never having been “cool” myself (or desperate enough to seek its conferral upon me by people I always found to be rather sad trend-followers) I can only judge by past observation...
Mob boss scandal a chance to 'learn Rome,' warts and all...
When Pope John Paul II used to address seminarians studying in the Eternal City, he would often urge them to “learn Rome.” By that, he meant that just moving around the city, and especially spending time in its estimated 300 churches, can offer an education in Catholicism. Today is the one-year anniversary of John Paul’s beatification...
Pat Buchanan, diversity and Catholic counter-culturalism...
The conservative Buchanan cited "Suicide of a Superpower" as the occasion for his heave-ho by MSNBC. If this book is actually what did him in, I can’t say I’m entirely surprised. It’s hard to imagine anybody agreeing with everything it says, and many will come away from it hopping mad. But a matter for firing?
Pope Benedict tells German bishops that "pro multis" must be translated literally...
Could this man become the first Canadian pope?
21 killed in attacks on church services in northern Nigeria...
