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Prayer Request

A reader writes: Prayer request! My brother Jim, fell this morning and hit his head very hard, was taken to the ER and hasn’t regained consciousness yet. Please Pray! Thank you! Father, hear our prayer for Jim’s complete recovery in body, soul, and spirit. Give his caregivers grace, compassion, wisdom, counsel, knowledge, skill, understanding, and […]

What in Hell are Christians Talking about?

In which we finish out the discussion I had a couple weeks back with some amiable unbelievers convinced that Hell is just crowd control for suckers who like smells and bells.  My interlocuter continues… Are you saying you cannot have a conscience, good heart and compassion on your own? Not especially, though that is true […]

How the Bishops are Responding to the Pardon of Arpaio

…is by calling for the pardon of undocumented workers. This seems only fair since they have not, as the monstrously evil Arpaio did, erected concentration camps, tortured and beaten people, arrested innocents detained them, faked assassination attempts, caused the death of infants by neglect, allowed the repeated rape of children, or, well, done anything besides […]

Sherry Antonetti writes poignantly of her hometown

She sez: Please pray for Jefferson County. Every historical water record has been broken. My home town has not just flooding, but flooding to such an extent (and we’ve flooded at least four times in my lifetime), that the infrastructure of the cities Beaumont, Port Arthur and Orange are overwhelmed. Water has been shut off. […]

Mattress Mack, Catholic Hero of Houston

Wonderful story on a man who “went to Catholic schools and I believe in giving what I get.”

Today Brandon Vogt and I talk about his Claritas U project

…on Connecting the Dots: Go here to find out more about ClaritasU.

Bp. Robert Barron on the pro-life/social justice split in the Church

In an interview with my friend Kevin Birnbaum at Northwest Catholic, he calls it a “tragedy for the Church“: NWC: The Cornerstone conference arose in response to this division between “pro-life” Catholics and “social justice” Catholics — this lack of communication and cooperation, sometimes distrust and even disdain. What should be our attitude toward this […]

Interested in Helping Fund a Film Project?

Reader Dave LeRoss writes: I’m part of a massive team of Catholic filmmakers who are working on an 8-part anthology film based on the beatitudes. (I’m writing the script for blessed are the persecuted, which I think you would find very interesting – and timely – but that’s a story for another day). I was […]

Please, please, pretty please help!

Thanks to your generosity, we are halfway there, but we need to the whole way! ONLY TWO DAYS LEFT! A small donation from each of us who is reading this will make the difference as to whether 51 children return to school or not. $1,350 is still needed.The Catholic volunteers of Mercy For Life-Africa who […]

Music for Our Lady’s Birthday!

On the heels of having several #1 Billboard Classical Traditional albums, De Montfort Music teamed up with sister label AimHigher Recordings and Sony Classical in the recording of the angelic music of Ave Maria by The Boys of St. Paul’s Choir School.  The album will be released on September 8, 2017. It is available for […]