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The Pope and those Airplane Talks

A good number of Catholics are getting worked up by Pope Francis’ habit of giving informal interviews on airplanes. It was worrying me too, but I’m beginning to see the advantages of what he’s doing. This week’s article for Aleteia explains my thinking on the matter: When the pope meets with journalists on the plane [Read More...]

The Next Pope – Twelve Cardinals to Watch

Pope Francis has several times indicated that his will not be a long papacy.  During the press conference on his flight back from Korea he spoke about Pope Benedict’s retirement and said, “I would do the same. I would do the same. I will pray, but I would do the same. He [Benedict] opened a [Read More...]

Slubgrip’s Special Offer

During the month of January take advantage of a special pre-publication offer on my new book Slubgrip Instructs–the sequel to my previous Lent book The Gargoyle Code. In The Gargoyle Code master tempter Slubgrip writes daily to trainee devil Dogwart–advising him on the temptation of a confused young Catholic, while he struggles to control his own ‘patient’–an older man who [Read More...]

Abortion and Obi Wan Kenobi

In 1915 Agnes Cuff, a flighty and unstable young woman with few prospects and little money found herself pregnant. The father didn’t want to be involved. She was alone, shamed, poor and pregnant. Today she would be encouraged to get herself to an abortion clinic and end the unwanted pregnancy. Instead a little boy was born. English actor [Read More...]

Abortion and Obi Wan

In 1915 Agnes Cuff, a flighty and unstable young woman with few prospects and little money found herself pregnant. The father didn’t want to be involved. She was alone, shamed, poor and pregnant. Today she would be encouraged to get herself to an abortion clinic and end the unwanted pregnancy. Instead a little boy was born. English actor [Read More...]

Miss Sylvia Cotton Writes About Rabbits

Miss Sylvia Cotton is our latest guest blogger. Miss Cotton is Founder and Headmistress of St Felicity and Perpetua School for Girls in Upper Gusset, Rhode Island. With a Bachelor’s Degree in Home Economics, Miss Cotton is an avid sportswoman, sailor and world traveler. Author of several books on how to raise Catholic young ladies–among [Read More...]

On Priests and Pedestals

The other day I was asked what was the most difficult thing about being a priest and I said I thought it was the fact that people don’t really want you to be a real person. They want you to be Jesus Mary and Joseph. I was exaggerating. However. There is sometimes some pretty weird [Read More...]

The Secular Search for a Savior

Now that Pope Francis has spoken out clearly against artificial contraception and same sex marriage we can hear the sighs of dismay from the disappointed secular humanists. Oh, how they latched on to this new hope from Argentina! It didn’t matter if they were Catholics or not. They wanted to love him. They wanted to [Read More...]

Catholicism – The Original Mega Church

View image | gettyimages.com Pope Francis’ record breaking visit to the Philippines reminds the world of the sheer power of numbers when it comes to debates about religion. Let the Oxford intellectuals like Dawkins squawk all they want about the evils of religion and the goodness of atheism. They are a fly not even worth [Read More...]

Climbing the Spiritual El Capitan

These week two amazing guys did the first free climb of the Dawn Wall of El Capitan in Yosemite. Kevin J0rgeson and Tommy Cauldwell spent nineteen days on the cliff face ascending a granite wall twice the height of the Empire State Building. Read about it and see the interview here. One of the climber said [Read More...]