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So, this morning someone brought up women priests. Do not symbolic actions mean something? I am also discouraged by a conversation betw...

It is Easter Monday. I am concerned about something which I saw starting in the 1980s when I was at Notre Dame. I call it the politicizing...

http://www.jihadwatch.org/2013/03/libya-head-of-parliament-human-rights-committee-flees-country-after-threats-as-christian-persecution.html

II. THE PRECEPTS OF THE CHURCH 2041  The precepts of the Church are set in the context of a moral life bound to and nourished by...

Here are some helpful quotations from the CCC on our duties as laity: (my boldface type). .   I. MORAL LIFE AND THE MAGISTERIUM OF T...

A quick post. There seems to be among the laity, confusion as to the meaning of the obedience we owe the hierarchy of the Church. Firstl...

It is cold and dark in London, but the chapel at Tyburn is still ablaze with candles and decorated with yellow mums. The nuns sang beau...

There is no new life without death of the old. Happy Easter. May you rise with Christ in a new life.

http://www.newsmax.com/Headline/north-korea-war/2013/03/29/id/497015 North Korea has declared itself in a "state of war". 15 pos...

Spring forward, fall back We lose an hour here tonight. Remember to change your clocks. And, in a sad, sad week, we have snow predic...

http://www.jihadwatch.org/2013/03/france-muslim-breaks-14th-century-clock-in-catholic-cathedral-because-it-was-preventing-him-from-con.htm l

http://rt.com/politics/gay-couples-report-foreign-973/ I am sure some will be yelling "fascism" about this.

http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/john_paul_ii/apost_letters/documents/hf_jp-ii_apl_22051994_ordinatio-sacerdotalis_en.html APOSTOLI...

I left it there. Too bad, as it had a really nice frame and Dogbert was wearing a red cloak as well. Things have not changed since 1996... ...

One of my spiritual directors said, "Remember, confusion is always from the devil."

http://www.dnaindia.com/world/report_pope-francis-a-boy-of-few-words-now-speaks-for-all-catholics_1811595 Reuters will not let bloggers ...

Not everything the Pope says or does is infallible  folks. I know even highly educated people who are confused on this one. Remember As...

St. Bernard of Clairvaux reminds us on this sad day when we await the Resurrection, that the devil cannot read our minds but only our act...

I am grieved by the divisions all this is causing (in reference to the washing of the feet of a woman). I live in Great Britain where he...