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Thanks to Wiki My usual number of posts is six for one day, with variations of seven to ten or so, on a special day. I hope all who foll...

Those who have been following this blog know that I follow Maltese Catholic life. The Archbishop there published a beautiful paper on lif...

In this first line of the reading at the NO yesterday, from Ephesians 4:30, St. Paul writes, "Do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God wh...

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/158831#.UCgZiZ1lQcs Catholics, please pay attention. Pray for Coptic Christians.

An American cannot be a Catholic and vote Democrat. Since the late 1990s, the party platform has officially supported contraception and abor...

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When I was in high school, in my freshman year, age 14, we all had to take Logic. Some of us went on to take debate. These courses were part...

http://communities.washingtontimes.com/neighborhood/tygrrrr-express/2012/aug/11/paul-ryan-murders-puppies-and-kittens/ This is so funny ...

OK Ladies, this is for you on a sunny, Sunday morning in England. Which Jane Austen character are you? This is for plain fun and this blog...

The Spouse of God As I was mediating on the beginning of the Gospel according to St. Luke, and wondering about what to write about i...

Blessed John Henry Cardinal Newman gives us a clear view of the mind of modern man. He not only knew his history, and the history of ideas...

That we are accountable for what we do and what we are,—that, in spite of all aids or hindrances from without, each soul is the cause o...

I have been a Paul Ryan fan since I lived in Wisconsin and heard him at a convention there. That he is highly intelligent, pro-life, fiscall...

I have four liturgical calendars in my head. One, is the Tridentine, which celebrates the Wonder-Worker, St. Philomena today. In the Novus...

I could not resist. Here is more Newman from the Oxford Sermons against relativism and the fallacy that Catholicism has nothing to do with...

I have four posts today quoting Newman, a prophet for our time. One is in awe of the man's intellect, considering his young age when ...

Blessed Newman also helps us with our approach to perfection. Note this from Sermon Three at Oxford, 1831. One of his points is that is one ...

When I was in my twenties, Julian of Norwich was "all the rage". Her "shewings" were on sale in small paperbacks, some...

Newman helps us understand why we must be hesitant concerning what we read and what we believe. His appeal to a certain disposition of ho...

   A very short video     http://i.imgur.com/jbva6.gif Notice the one in front not paying any attention. How about some captions...