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Catholic Clergy
I know that title is going to make many people move away from this post, and that includes my wife. She only reads this thing sporadically, and she always clicks away from anything about religion. I guess she hears eno… -
Deacon Tony?
British Prime Minister Tony Blair is winding down this month after ten years in office, and the scuttlebutt today is that he plans to become a Roman Catholic and an ordained permanent deacon. Tony's last official foreig… -
The New Catholic Scandal
The sexual abuse scandal if far from over, but now we're facing a new scandal in the Catholic Church in the United States. This one is financial. Here are the guts of an article in a recent issue of the National Cathol… -
The Bones of Jesus, II
Last week I argued that the faith of Christians in the resurrection and ascension of Jesus should not be disturbed by the alleged "discovery" of the bones of Jesus, explicated tonight at lenghth on the Discovery Channel.… -
Taking Communion to the Sick
I went to Mass this morning. It wasn't a big thing. I woke up around 6:45. I had time to drink two cups of coffee and take a shower before it was time to leave for 8:15 Mass, so I went. It was First Friday, so, you k… -
The Bones of Jesus
The big news of the day for me, at least, was the announcement that archeologists have discovered the ossuaries (bone boxes) of Jesus and his family and that they buried the bones that were in them in 1980 when the ossua… -
Two Things
Thing One This morning I checked Whispers in the Loggia, the Catholic blog I read almost every day, and there was an entry about an article in Crisis Magazine that ranked the 176 Catholic Latin-rite dioceses in the Unit… -
"Saint" Valentine and "Saint" Patrick
I'm looking at the official Catholic calendar, and the saints commemorated tomorrow, St. Valentine's Day, are St. Cyril and St. Methodius. They were the apostles to the Slavs, and St. Cyril invented the Cyrillic alphabe… -
Radical Traditionalists
The term in my title seems like an oxymoron, but it describes a group of people who believe that the last genuine Catholic pope died in 1958 and that Jews are responsible for every evil that has ever occurred. Mel Gibso…
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