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Language reveals the honesty or dishonesty of definitions. Revisionist history changes definitions. Today, in a news article, I read about...

Sadly, I cannot show photos of the Pope in Lebanon, as most belong to Getty, the company which does not allow bloggers to use its photos. ...

Just repeat after me: it is not the movie which caused the riots. And a third article from yet another honest reporter on the subject to a...

Two U.S. Marines were killed and other Americans were wounded on Friday during a Taliban attack on a base in southern Afghanistan where Brit...

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2012/09/13/mrs-clinton-and-mr-obama-it-time-to-wake-up-and-smell-global-jihad/ Christian Whiton has a timel...

Our Lady Mary, pray for us all, here in Europe and in America especially.

Thanks to Wiki In order to become a Muslim, one must denounce Jesus Christ as God. This is serious if one has been raised and lived as ...

It was not given by my PP. A little, almost tiny Benedictine portress told me today that the Cross is always with us. She did a little ...

Father Z reminded us to get basil blessed today and go to his blog for a great history of that custom. I got the communal pot of basil bless...

As I mentioned below, this day is special to me. At Notre Dame University, in the Basilica, there is a relic of the True Cross which we ...

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/09/13/white-house-indicates-sebelius-wont-be-punished-over-hatch-act-violation/?utm_source=feedburner...

Vexilla Regis (pencil & watercolour) by David Jones VEXILLA Regis prodeunt; fulget Crucis mysterium, quo carne carnis conditor su...

This feast day is very personal to me for several reasons. One, I was taught for eight years by excellent Holy Cross Nuns. I spent six years...

U.S. State Department alert:  Embassies in Armenia, Burundi, Egypt, Kuwait, Sudan, Tunisia and Zambia all issued warnings on Wednesday that...

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Today, I, a faithless sinner, renew in your hands my Baptismal vows; I renounce Satan forever, his pomps and works; and I give myself entire...

UPDATE: Since I wrote this, the Vatican has changed its tune and issued a strong condemnation of the violence. Boy, that office needs to get...

Thanks to Wiki-Bede's Ecclesiastical History Yesterday, even though there were some soft articles on cute, I set a record for postin...

Giovanni Battista Crespi The Blessed Virgin Guiding St. Dominic to Victory over the Albigensians It may be too late, but we need a gener...

St John Chrysostom is a Doctor of the Church and a man for our time. His time was rent with serious splits among Catholics and the failing...