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Kitty Schori Steps Down

This bit of news from the Episcopal Church today informs us that Katherine Jefferts Schori–the presiding bishop is not going to stand for re-election. I haven’t much to observe about Schori and the kerfuffle in this small, American Protestant denomination doesn’t hold much interest except that in her announcement Mrs. Schori outlined the way she [Read More...]

Internet Overload and Living Local

I’ve had a few days away from blogging and I can’t say I missed it. Here’s why: sometimes I simply get internet overload. I get frustrated with what I read and run out of things to say about it. Headlines scream out about all the bad stuff happening around the world. Hungry for hits, loggers [Read More...]

Do Not Put Your Trust in Princes

  My article this month for The Catholic Thing is a critique of those who think Vladimir Putin will be the savior of the papacy and of decent moral values. A few weeks ago I wrote a column entitled, “Prepare for the Rise of the Right,” in which I observed that in the face of [Read More...]

The Man Who Wouldn’t Be King

My article for this week in The Imaginative Conservative tells the story of the man who gave up the throne of England for his Catholic faith. The Queen of England was on her deathbed without an heir. Exiled to France, the twenty- six-year-old prince was the rightful king. The English courtiers wrote to offer him [Read More...]

God the Father or Sugar Daddy?

Here is my latest post for ZENIT: Is it God the Father or Sugar Daddy in the sky? Atheists sometimes blame Christians for believing in a Heavenly Father who is great big sugar daddy in the sky who will take us to heaven when we die. Our God, they say, is like Colonel Sanders—always beaming [Read More...]

Could St Joseph of Cupertino Really Fly?

Today is the feast day of St Joseph of Cupertino. To learn about his life go here. Joseph was born into a poor family in Cupertino, Italy in 1603. His father was a poor carpenter who died before he was born, and his impoverished mother gave birth to him in a stable. The poor boy [Read More...]

Stigmatics Today

Today is the memorial of the Stigmata of St Francis. Stigmata are one of those unusual phenomena within the Catholic religion which remind us of that the body, mind and spirit are completely interlinked. The word stigmata comes from the Greek word stigma or “mark” and this word is used in Galatians when St Paul [Read More...]

The Greed Creed

I’ve got a series of article on the seven deadly sins being published over at Catholic Exchange. Go here for this week’s article on Greed We think of greed as a fat cat banker who pays himself a million dollar bonus after already receiving a salary of three million for working a seventy hour week doing [Read More...]

Love and Marriage: What Can Be Done?

With the upcoming Synod of the Family some Catholics are biting their nails that there is going to be a revolution in church discipline and that suddenly all divorced and re-married Catholics will be permitted to receive communion. Probably not according to Cardinal Pell. The fathers of the church realize that Our Lord’s teaching on the [Read More...]

A Little Literary Tour of Oxford

Here is my article for the Imaginative Conservative this week. It is an imaginary tour of literary Oxford. No other city in the world oozes literature as Oxford does. So come with me on a little literary tour of the city. We are going to start in the street called St Aldate’s at the front [Read More...]