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Pope Francis Reaches Out to Pentecostals…

Pope Francis’ Message to Pentecostals…. …But who is Bishop Tony Palmer? Yesterday the Catholic blogosphere lit up with Pope Francis’ heartwarming video message to a gathering of Pentecostals in Texas. The whole video lasts about 45 minutes, and it is worth watching the whole thing because, while Pope Francis’ message is heartwarming and truly moving, [Read More...]

Catholic World Report Reports…

…on The Romance of Religion. Go here to read the interview about the stories, heroes, myth and something to die for. In this new book you draw heavily on literature, film, and art to illustrate the great ideals of goodness, truth, and beauty. Stories have the ability to teach and provide us with insight into our [Read More...]

Why is America is Going Godless?

Peter  Foster is the American editor of London’s Daily Telegraph. He reports here on the rising tide of secularism in America. The decline of mainstream Protestantism in America over recent decades has been well documented, but for much of that period Evangelical Christianity appeared to be immune to that wider trend, as mega-churches continued to grow [Read More...]

Catholic Enemies Make Strange Bedfellows

My friend Kathy Schiffer posts quotable quotes from time to time and today she has a hum dinger from Jonathan Swift: “When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.” I replied that I now understood why everyone is against [Read More...]

English Bishops Socialites and Socialists

There is a delicious quip in the acerbic English comedy series, Yes Prime Minister in which the prime minister has to appoint an Anglican bishop and his assistant says the perfect choice would be combination of a socialite and a socialist. A cute comment on the tendency of Anglican bishops to either be “out of the [Read More...]

Divine Mercy Celebration

Plan now to join us at Our Lady of the Rosary Church in Greenville, South Carolina for a special celebration of the Divine Mercy Devotion on Divine Mercy Sunday, April 27, 2014. After celebrating the Divine Mercy with a special prayer service and special music, Sister Ann Shields from Catholic Renewal Ministries will be our [Read More...]

Pearce Pierces the Common Core

Joseph Pearce reveals the shallow idiocy of modern statist education in this attack on the common core. By extension the entire American secular academy is a naked emperor, and Pearce standing on the shoulders of the giant Chesterton, first espies then announces that the emperor is bare. Many a school boasts of having the latest [Read More...]

Don’t Be Such a Big Baby!

Infantilism is a psychological disorder in which the person affects infant like behaviors, experiences stunted emotions and sexual immaturity. A man with this problem might wear diapers, drink from a bottle and surround himself with stuffed toys. Sick. While the problem may not get as extreme as that, I notice an increasing tendency towards baby-like [Read More...]

A Good Read for Lent

If you have not read my book The Gargoyle Code why not get a copy for your Lenten reading? The Gargoyle Code is written in the style of C.S.Lewis’ Screwtape Letters, but updated and written for a Catholic audience. It is a Lent book because the letters from a senior tempter to a junior tempter–telling him how to [Read More...]

I Never Criticize My Fellow Priests…

Deacon Kandra reports here on Newark Archbishop Myers’ upgrade on his retirement home. His present 4,500-square-foot home sits on 8.2 wooded acres in the hills of Hunterdon County. With five bedrooms, three full bathrooms, a three-car garage and a big outdoor pool, it’s valued at nearly $800,000, records show. But it’s not quite roomy enough [Read More...]