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I never really paid much attention to Fr. Andrew Greeley
Catholic and Enjoying It! - Jun 11, 2013 at 2:19 am He just didn’t scratch where I itched mostly. As I was settling into being Catholic, he was sort of winding down his career, from what I can tell. I don’t have much interest in...
Love the Sinner
Crisis Magazine - Church - Jun 11, 2013 at 2:15 am On the forest floor, half covered in withered leaves, lay the naked body of a child, a young girl. Her short dark hair reached just to her shoulders; her face was obscured with...
Urgent Prayer Request for Fr. Raphael Mary Salzillo, O.P.
Catholic and Enjoying It! - Jun 11, 2013 at 2:09 am Fr. Raphael Mary is well-known to the good people of Blessed Sacrament parish here in Seattle. He is scheduled for surgery tomorrow. Please pray for him. Here is the scoop:
I’m...
Hey! Help Support Chesterton Academy and Get More Bang for the Buck!
Catholic and Enjoying It! - Jun 11, 2013 at 2:09 am More rubble for the ruble! More punch for the pound!! More heroes for the Euro!!! More alliterative cleverness for the monetary denomination!!!!
Here’s how: The amazingly...
A Reader Sez Something Profound
Catholic and Enjoying It! - Jun 11, 2013 at 2:08 am “The devil does not care about killing the children as much as he wants to make murderers out of people.”
One of the things that has increasingly troubled me, not only about the...
Prayer Request
Catholic and Enjoying It! - Jun 11, 2013 at 2:04 am A reader writes:
My friend who had the lung operation is not doing well. More things are going wrong. The doctors will have a meeting tomorrow and will probably start taking him...
60 Minutes on Antoni Gaudí and the Sagrada Família.
New Liturgical Movement - Jun 11, 2013 at 2:03 am And speaking of modern churches… I recently had a conversation about St. Peter’s Basilica with a woman who just had been to Barcelona, in the course of which she told me that she...
Cardinal Koch in Ukraine: Goal of Ecumenism "Visible Communion"
News.va - Jun 11, 2013 at 1:45 am (Vatican Radio)The President of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, Cardinal Kurt Koch, gave a lecture at the Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv, Ukraine, on...
Women's caucus to connect pro-life lawmakers nationwide
Catholic News Agency - General - Jun 11, 2013 at 1:13 am Washington D.C., Jun 11, 2013 / 12:13 am (CNA/EWTN News).- A new nationwide caucus is seeking to organize and recruit pro-life women to run for political office and pass...
Women's caucus to connect pro-life lawmakers nationwide
EWTN - US Latest News - Jun 11, 2013 at 1:13 am Washington D.C., Jun 11, 2013 / 01:13 am (EWTN News/CNA).-
A new nationwide caucus is seeking to organize and recruit pro-life women to run for political office and pass...
Pope calls for 'culture of encounter' towards disabled
EWTN - Vatican News - Jun 11, 2013 at 1:08 am Vatican City, Jun 11, 2013 / 01:08 pm (EWTN News/CNA).-
Highlighting the spiritual gift of faith seen in Jesus' healing of the blind, Pope Francis encouraged an 'active...
Saints: St. Barnabas
Word on Fire - Fr. Robert Barron - Jun 11, 2013 at 1:00 am We all want a legacy. But St. Barnabas, one of the twelve apostles about whom little is known, leaves with us a lesson that perhaps recognition and remembrance isn't the answer....
Like Going Up the Down Escalator
Integrated Catholic Life - Jun 10, 2013 at 11:01 pm I have a few crisp memories of my grandparents on my mother’s side. One of them is a replaying, over-a-decade-old mental video of Grandpa trying to walk up the down escalator,...
Oh the Humanity! The 2013 Shin-Kicking Championships.
Creative Minority Report - Jun 10, 2013 at 10:07 pm ESPN2 is falling down on the job. I love those odd sports that ESPN2 will show like The World's Strongest Man with the guy pulling the truck and throwing kegs over a wall. But how...
The Greatness of George Washington
Catholic Vote - Jun 10, 2013 at 9:56 pm Some work I am doing has me reading a lot of the papers of Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson. Of course it is a pleasure to spend so much time in the company of these great...
Ordination Update: 20 New Deacons for Los Angeles
The Deacon's Bench - Jun 10, 2013 at 9:11 pm One of the newly ordained, Deacon Jason Schalow, dropped me a note to alert me to the ordination by Archbishop Jose Gomez last weekend—and point me to this story from The Tidings...
Bishops warn against changes in immigration bill that could kill it
The Catholic Spirit (St. Paul, MN) - Jun 10, 2013 at 9:06 pm
Activists with the immigration rights group Border Angels carry wooden crosses to a U.S. bishops’ news conference on immigration reform legislation June 10 at Our Lady of...
What Is the Difference Between Creation, Evolution, and Intelligent Design?
Jimmy Akin.org - Jun 10, 2013 at 8:29 pm What’s the difference between creation, evolution, and intelligent design?
Creationism, Evolutionism, and Intelligent Design are three of the major positions on the question of...
Pope to CLAR, part 2: "Yes, there is a 'gay lobby' in the Curia. We need to see what we can do about it"
Rorate Coeli - Jun 10, 2013 at 8:20 pm [First part: Pope on Traditional groups]
Among many other things said by His Holiness in his audience to the Presiding Board of CLAR (the Latin American and Caribbean...
If Every Day Was September 12th, 2001
Creative Minority Report - Jun 10, 2013 at 8:12 pm The debate about liberty vs. security seems to be taking center stage with the recent disturbing revelations about the NSA snooping.
Senator John McCain ridiculously said over the...
