“One very common form of the blunder is to make modern conditions an absolute end, and then try to fit human necessities to that end, as if they were only a means. Thus people say, ‘Home life is not suited to the business life of today.’ Which is as if they said, ‘Heads are not [...]
I just had to share these words of Pope Benedict from earlier this week. So good! Especially the last part. Answering a query about the current secularization of Portugal, a once profoundly Catholic country, the Holy Father replied that Portugal “has carried the faith to all corners of the world; a courageous, intelligent and creative [...]
I can see what Planned Parenthood and NOW and NARAL and all of the other “pro” women groups were so upset about. I mean…this is really offensive stuff: If this one upset them so much I can’t imagine all of the
Have you ever heard about the plot to “X” Christ out of Christmas? And so the secular celebraters of this holy-day (holiday) decided they were going to start using “Xmas” instead of Christmas? Well, it’s not true. We do have lots of people who celebrate Christmas without the “Christ” part. We also have lots of [...]
Most alumni of Catholic colleges and universities in the United States are blind to what is troubling Catholic higher education today. Despite increased public awareness of scandals at many Catholic colleges, including pro-abortion commencement speakers, campus performances of The Vagina Monologues, and dissident and heretical theology professors, alumni publications rarely hint at the controversies on [...]
We spend so much time filling our minds with relatively meaningless trivialities like sports statistics, repetitive news headlines, gossip, idle morning-show chat, and intimate details of strangers’ lives (i.e. “reality” TV). And some of those things have their place in life. But do we balance that out with some more helpful stuff? Should we not [...]
One of the things I love about our Catholic Church is that it is in the business of making Saints – not celebrities. As Catholics, we have a central authority and structured organization that unifies us. It is a saint-making machine. Unfortunately, many non-Catholic Christians have no such unifying mechanism leaving them “belonging” to various [...]
“A dead thing goes with the stream. Only a living thing can go against it.” – G. K. Chesterton In a sea of fish fettered by the same fashions, there often aren’t a lot of obvious signs of life in our daily lives. Exercise your ability to go against the stream today! Exercise your aliveness. [...]
Do you know what the day after Fat Tuesday is and why? Check out my latest article on Catholic Exchange. It made the front page! Have a great Saturday!
Here’s a really awesome video intro to a Catholic Underground – run by the CFRs (Franciscan Friars of the Renewal). It’s from awhile back but I never tire of watching it. The brotha speakin’ was Br. Augustino – now Fr. Augustino. I’ve had the extreme honor of hanging with a few of them on a [...]
With all of the moral confusion in our society these days it’s hard to imagine what the future will look like. We seem to have an increasingly wide divide between those that “cling” to a traditional morality and those anxious to be free from it. And being on the eve of an Obama White House [...]
