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http://www.climber.co.uk/categories/articleitem.asp?cate=5&topic=11&item=768 Wow, a six post day, as horrible news has been pos...

"You want less rich, I want less poor." However, Sarkozy has a problem in that Bayreau, the former centrist to the right, has...

May I add to this discussion on socialism and Catholicism, that all these ideas are found in the encyclicals of the great Popes for over on...

Eleven: socialism destroys nationalism, cultural differences and the organic growth of a civilization, by imposing rules and ideals which ...

OK, I know that Faith is a gift and that wanting to understand the teachings of the Church is also a grace. However, I am still trying to c...

Courageous Priest , a great website, has this Bishop highlighted this week.  “If this goes through there is nothing to stop the government r...

No one commented on my May Day custom of passing out May baskets on May 1st. I looked up the American custom with which I grew up and foun...

Bloggers in England are responding to the government's plan to place missiles in residential areas in London during the Olympics. Some ...

Some of my liberal acquaintances, who think that sharia law would be a good thing, as so off-base as to make conversations laughable, if the...

An author in The Tablet, Linda Woodhead, asks for a syncretic religion, instead of the one, true, holy and apostolic Church. She examines th...

In the April 28th issue of The Tablet , which should not be sold in any Catholic parish, but is, as I have just discovered today, Phyllis ...

When I was a child growing up in Iowa, it was the custom to make May baskets and place them on people's porches in the neighborhood. M...

Thanks Wiki I am visiting the beautiful city of Canterbury today, and prayed at the spot where St. Thomas Becket was murdered. I am...

Marxist language lookout. Watch the media today, as the occupy movements spread class hatred and Marxist jargon across the world. These anar...

I could write a book on trying to find a good spiritual director. I have had good ones and excellent ones. But, in England there is a twofol...

One thing I cannot do in Europe is hang out clothes. I have helped my sisters in Christ hang out clothes in England, Ireland, France and L...

I want to apologize to the blogging friends who wanted me to organize all the past postings on perfection. As I am fighting an old computer ...

In my travels in England, and I am writing a book, I can share that I have witnessed either liturgical abuses or abuses by the laity in e...

I must write on the difference between magical thinking and belief in devotions. There are many Catholics, and sadly, many are Charismati...

A commentator today on Father Z's blog drew attention to a report from Paix Liturgique , which, as I am moving back and forth betwee...