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The Long, Twisted Story of All Hallow’s Eve

Everybody knows that Halloween is just the baptized pagan feast of Samhain, right? Everybody’s wrong.  Here: have some actual history, courtesy of Yr. Obdt. Svt.: One game some postmodern people never tire of is attempting to shock Catholics with the news that something or other regarding the Faith is really just warmed-over paganism. (Though curiously, […]

10 Classic Catholic Confessions

This is pretty funny:

Talking about How the Gospels Remember…

…over at The Catholic Weekly: Here’s the deal: the Evangelists are not tape recorders. They are people telling, as best they can, the true stories of what Jesus said and did. But they are not always and everywhere giving us the exact words of Jesus. We are getting eyewitness testimony (for more on that I […]

A 10 year old girl with cerebral palsy…

…faces deportation for the crime of needing hospital care according to the super-duper prolife Trump Administration. The administration is backed by the court prophets of both Crisis and Liesite News who, using the unborn as human shields, reject the Church’s teaching that human life and dignity are to be protected from conception to natural death […]

Christianity is for Cucks

Matthew Schmitz speaks the truth here. Like Fr. Martin’s Christ, Waugh’s hero learns from a wise woman. He sees that Christianity is not a matter of blood, or of race, or of victory in this world. It requires accepting defeat in this life before promising triumph in the next. A Catholic cannot be certain that […]

Deacon Steven Greydanus and I talk Star Trek, Religion and the Mass

in the nerdliest episode of Connecting the Dots EVAR!

Grace, Karma, and the Need to Renew our Faith

Bishop Barron wrote a piece a while back on Grace and Karma: A karmic approach says that, by a cosmic spiritual law, we are punished or rewarded according to our moral activities. If we do bad things, we will suffer, either in this life or a life to come. And if we do good things, […]

Reformation Flame War

Demonstrating that nothing ever really changes, blogger Laura Spires Freeburn translates a German Reformation era pamphlet that sounds uncannily like any internet argument today between Protestants and Catholics: In honor of the 500th anniversary of Luther’s 95 Theses, here is my heavily redacted version of a Reformation-era dialog by Hans Sachs, namely A dialog on […]

Prayer and Work of Mercy Request

A reader writes: Hey Mark, my mother is in the hospital for open heart surgery. Can you please ask everyone to pray for her? I don’t know if you remember her or me for that matter but we all met on several occasions along time ago in Washington. Her name is Hope Klaus. Thank you […]

Interviewed Baby Priest Fr. Colin Parrish…

…on Connecting the Dots!