Etheldredasplace

http://www.campusreform.org/blog/?ID=4534 It has been a bad day for Christians.....

http://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/story/20262865/lawsuit-threat-cancels-christmas-concert

Someone referred to The Pickled Boys miracle of St. Nicholas today on Fr. Z. May I add that I grew up on this story, as did my son. We ...

Abba Copres said,  " blessed is he who bears affliction with thankfulness."  Work on gratefulness for everything, even suffering a...

Thanks to The Deacon's Bench for this head's up. The Forbes Report has this. Deacon Kandra writes this: He’s just below Bill G...

Increasingly on this blog, I am receiving readers from the Far East. I have regular readers from Japan, South Korea, Malaysia, Singapor...

Talk about generation gaps. The construction of my society growing up is gone, gone, gone. From education to social manners, to identity as ...

This feast is a major one on both sides of my family. Being from ancestors who are both Moravian, Bohemian, and Luxembourgians, my family ...

Where is that squirrel? OK, take my photo for the Net!

OK, I am falling into sarcasm, but am I not relieved that the US Government blog just announced that doomsday is not December 21st for clari...

IMPORTANT UPDATE as of 20:56 GMT:   http://te-deum.blogspot.com/ 2012/12/what-is-real-status- of-national.html Right from the horse...

From Valle Adurni    http://www.independent.ie/lifestyle/i-bought-a-dress-for-my-unborn-christmas-baby-even-though-i-know-shell-die-3311420...

One can ask to have one's purgatory on earth. This is not the same as going through the purgative stage of holiness. Allowing one...

Since last January, I have highlighted the five stages of persecution now and then. You can use the search tab or click on the " p...

There is a fallacy among Americans, at least, that simplifying a lifestyle is enough for happiness. It is a start, but the search for ...

One of my favourite BBC series a long time ago was "The Little Princess" from the book by Frances Eliza Hodgson. Hodgson is one...

You did it. You made it happen. If it weren't for you, the U.S. Senate wouldn't have defeated the United Nations Convention ...

Weekly, I  am treated by phone calls or texting from some seminarian friends of mine. This week one of the topics was how does one convert...

I just came home from the Dublin pro-life rally. There were about 10,000 people there. I noticed the number of clergy and students, as we...

Supertradson, who has considerable acting skills, played Dr. Chasuble in The Importance of Being Earnes t in high school. I wonder if...