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Pope Francis Scourge of Slavery

Here is my latest article for Aleteia–commenting on Pope Francis’ recent conference on human trafficking and sex slavery. The article also discusses the history of slavery and gives a summary of Biblical teaching and the development of the church’s position on slavery. Critics of the Christian tolerance of slavery should be informed that it was actually [Read More...]

ACA – Obama’s Iceberg

Dear Lord, please make the Affordable Care Act Obama’s iceberg . AMEN. There now, a priest has got all political! Ooh! How awful!! What I find curious is that the priests and bishops who are left wing can be just as political as they like and express their views, but if a priest is more [Read More...]

Works Without Faith is Dead

The old debate still rages in which Catholics dispute with Protestants who say that salvation is by “faith alone.” Yes, we like to pick out the verse from the epistle of James which says that “faith without works is dead.” If we’re going to talk the talk we have to walk the walk. Action speak [Read More...]

A Female Cardinal!

Who said female cardinals are an impossibility? Deacon Greg corrects the rumors here.

Thomas Peters Writes

I met Thomas Peters–the young Catholic blogger at a Catholic Leadership Conference a few years ago. He’s been at the forefront of the pro-life and Catholic political scene, so it was terrible news to hear that he was seriously injured in a diving accident last summer. He’s able to write again–albeit using the knuckle of his [Read More...]

Cardinal Oscar’s Vision of the Church

Rocco Palma reports here on a speech given by Cardinal Oscar Maradiaga–a member of Pope Francis’ “Gang of Eight” –the cardinals who he has tasked to help him reform the church. Palma calls him Francis’ “Vice Pope” Cardinal Maradiaga gave a speech at a conference in Texas on October 25 on the New Evangelization which [Read More...]

Man Boy Sex in Afghanistan

The weird and shocking fact in Afghan culture is that in this strict Islamic country the practice of  homosexual pedophilia is an open, widespread and growing sub culture. Afghan men “adopt” boys from poor families, dress them as women, make them dance  and keep them as catamites. “Women are for babies. Boys are for pleasure” [Read More...]

Brothers in Arms – Bishop Fellay and Bob Jones

This article highlights a recent speech by Bishop Fellay–the head of the Society of St Pius X–otherwise known as the Catholic sect the Lefebvrists. In the late 1970s I was a student at Bob Jones University–the fundamentalist school in Greenville, SC. Dr Bob Jones Jr. was the Chancellor of the university at the time and [Read More...]

Zachaeus and the Little Way

We used to sing the Sunday School song, “Zachaeus was a wee little man and a wee little man was he, he climbed up into a sycamore tree for the Lord he wanted to see, and the Lord said, “Zachaeus! You come down!” There are a lot of nice details in the story–all of which [Read More...]

Strange Gods

“You shall have no other Gods before me.” trumpets the Lord in the Old Testament. St Benedict puts it the other way, “Prefer nothing to the love of Christ.” Elizabeth Scalia is a daughter of St Benedict–a Benedictine oblate, writer, wife and mother. Blogging at The Anchoress she’s also one of the Patheosi–bloggers here from a [Read More...]