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Pope Frodo?

Has anyone else noticed that with the pope–his new advisory council is made up on nine members? Like the Fellowship of the Ring right? Here’s a fanciful piece I wrote for Aleteia which you might find amusing. It will also help you become acquainted with the eight cardinals who are helping Pope Francis bring change [Read More...]

You Are Omnipotent

You are created in God’s image right? God is omnipotent right? So if you’re created in his image you must also be omnipotent. The little bit of God’s omnipotence that he shares with you is called your will. You have free will. You can decide. You can choose. You can act. There’s a hitch of [Read More...]

Make Me a Channel

I’m not really that fond of the song Make Me a Channel of Your Peace. It was originally written as a folk song, and when it is sung as a hymn it doesn’t work. The rhythms are irregular and people swoop up and down…not good. However, take a moment to listen to this fantastic rendering [Read More...]

Pope and President

This week the politics and power people continued to read the Catholic Church in terms of their own agenda. Rush (Windbag) Limbaugh huffed and puffed about the Pope being a Marxist while this journalist at Fox echoed him in saying that Pope Francis was the Catholic Church’s Obama. Meanwhile El Presidente mouthed a pull quote [Read More...]

The Subtle Poison of Socialism

With Rush Limbaugh crowing about the Pope being a Marxist and arch-conservatives having hissy fits about Pope Francis,  John Zmirak voices a strident, but smart critique of Cardinal  Maradiaga’s simplistic socialism. Go here. I like his quote from Leo XIII’s harsh criticism of socialism: they assail the right of property sanctioned by natural law; and [Read More...]

The Pope Shops at CostCo

…or at least he would if he could–because its a company that treats people right. With all the comment on Pope Francis’ comments on economics we do well to remember the Catholic principle of subsidiarity–that the solution is at the lowest level–not the highest. Because he is for the poor and condemns the rich, and [Read More...]

Topless Femthugs Attack Catholic Men

Rod Dreher reports here on a shocking event in the Pope’s own Buenos Aires. A group of pro abort feminists trying to desecrate the cathedral were met with by a group of Catholic men standing in defense of the cathedral blocking their way. The men stood praying the rosary. The women–many of them topless–attacked the [Read More...]

I Want Women Ministers Now!

Progressive blogger Tony Jones who is also teaches at Protestant Fuller Theological Seminary has a sort of Wittenburg Door moment on his blog about women in ministry. His self righteously angry blog post is full of bold print yelling and petty foot stomping. Part of his manifesto for change goes like this: I don’t take [Read More...]

Be Still and Know That I Am

Stratford Caldecott writes here of his discovery of an Eastern Orthodox hermit named Silouan living in the Shropshire hills of England. His book is a profound poetical theological sequences of mystical meditations.Wisdom Songs is described as  a collection of five Centuries on the Holy Name, the Song of Songs, Holy Wisdom, the Mysteries of Glory and the [Read More...]

Should I Throw Bertrand Russell Away?

My friend William Oddie is moving house. This means he has to shift shelves full of books. They must go. He asks here whether he should toss his Bertrand Russell. Oddie was a young atheist, then an Anglican priest, now a Catholic journalist. Soon after I became a Catholic I met William in England and [Read More...]