Showing posts with label catholicism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label catholicism. Show all posts
Thursday, December 12, 2013

Nelson Mandela, R.I.P.

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The President of the USCCB has issued a statement mourning the passing of Nelson Mandela. You can read all of it here . But a much better ...
Monday, November 18, 2013

The Catholic Brand

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Why is it that non-Catholics know what constitutes the outward signs of Catholic culture, but Catholics often don't? Take this little ...
Friday, August 02, 2013

E for Effort

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In the wake of Pope Francis' ill-considered off-the-cuff remarks ("... who am I to judge?) to the press on his way home from Ri...
Wednesday, February 13, 2013

Ash Wednesday

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Elsewhere online, I encountered the assertion that we should wash off today's ashes before we appear in public. The reason given is th...
Thursday, January 31, 2013

Bang the Drum!

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Thursday, November 08, 2012

Why not a Catholic Party?

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Shortly before the election, a friend sent me a copy of a message her parish received from its pastor. In the introductory paragraphs, the...
Wednesday, October 03, 2012

One brave woman

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Saturday, June 30, 2012

Served us right

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This program is from RealCatholicTV.com Michael Voris' special report on Thursday's Supreme Court decision mentions a very tell...
Thursday, June 28, 2012

In the wake of today's Supreme Court decision...

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Tuesday, June 19, 2012

Live Large, Spend Small

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That's a slogan I found in a recent newspaper ad (yes, I still read newspapers, on paper). It was for a retirement community, but it see...
Sunday, June 17, 2012

One of the Charterhouse monks

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Blessed Thomas Johnson (d. 1537), English Carthusian martyr. A priest and member of the London Charterhouse, he was imprisoned with severa...
Saturday, June 16, 2012

With leadership like theirs...

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The Leadership Council of Women Religious has been much in the news lately , being engaged in bitter resistance against even the hint of sig...

A Catholic hero from Vietnam

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St. John Hoan (d. 1861) : Vietnamese priest beheaded during the anti-Catholic persecutions in that country (some things never change, do the...
Friday, June 15, 2012

So many Mores

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Robert Bolt was right when he inserted the character of The Common Man into his play A Man for All Seasons -- the steadfastness of a Thomas...
Thursday, June 14, 2012

A Tale of Two Democrats

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From MercatorNet.org comes this zinger called "How to be a Catholic Democrat," which concisely contrasts two very different ways ...

Thomas More, and all of us

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Robert Bolt's A Man for All Seasons is one of the 20th century's great dramas, but if you've only seen the movie -- splendid as...
Sunday, June 10, 2012

St. Ann's Army

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Long ago, I complained that the Catholic Church doesn't educate its congregations at the parish level about the reasons for its position...

Corpus Christi at St. Thomas

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Today, once again, I was struck by how fortunate I am to be part of St. Thomas Aquinas parish and the exquisite "Gregorian" Masses...
Friday, June 08, 2012

Pelosi: Bishops don't speak for Church

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The increasingly indescribable Nancy Pelosi has now informed us that in suing the Federal Government over the HHS/ObamaCare insurance manda...
Thursday, June 07, 2012

Midway, D-Day, Churchill -- and us

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The past several days' posts on this blog may have seemed out of character for a place that usually concentrates on Catholic subjects. B...