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Atheism is Only an Idea

A standing on my head insight from N.D.Wilson’s new book Death by Living -  All ideas must put on flesh if they are to live well… …Atheism is an idea. Most often (thank God) it is an idea lived and told with blunt jumbo-crayon clumsiness. Some child of Christianity or Judaism dons and unbelieving Zorro costume and [Read More...]

That’s My All Saints Day Post!

I was planning a humdinger of a post for All Saints Day today on the great hymn For All the Saints. Mgr. Pope beat me to it. Go here for a great write up. I first came across this hymn when I became an Anglican while still a student at Bob Jones. I was so impressed [Read More...]

The Mall or the Mass?

Maybe it’s the Amish in me, but one of the problems I have with being a priest in America is that, after living abroad for twenty five years, suburban America seems like one big theme park. When you go to the Mall the shops are all little fake themed experiences. When you dine out you [Read More...]

An Interview With The Exorcist Author

The WaPo carries an interview with The Exorcist author William Blatty here. I remember when The Exorcist was released. In our fundamentalist church we weren’t allowed to see Disney movies, much less something terrifying. There was a genuine hype amongst the population, and maybe that’s a good thing….people realized the devil was real. Blatty is engaged in a [Read More...]

Watch Out for the Witch

Here is my article for Halloween for Aleteia. It is an edited and updated version of an earlier article published at Halloween in previous years. Are witches real? Of course they are. Are they skinny old women with green skin, a pointy chin, a wart on their nose, cackling over a cauldron? Of course not. [Read More...]

Becoming Who We Are

Here is my piece for National Catholic Register for All Saints Day and All Souls Day. In ministering as a Catholic priest, I sometimes get the impression that Catholics are more interested in the minimum than the maximum. What I mean is that too many Catholics seem to have heard that what is required to [Read More...]

All Saints Day at Our Lady of the Rosary

Come and join us this evening at Our Lady of the Rosary at 7pm for our annual All Saints Day Mass including the veneration of the relics of saints. Here’s a video made of last year’s celebration.

Do Catholics Believe in Ghosts?

from Guest blogger Paul Thigpen. Paul Thigpen PhD. is an editor at TAN books and the author of hundreds of article and dozens of books on the Catholic faith. His book of prophetic prophecy–The Burden– is a powerful pointer to the perilous times we live in with a passionate call to repentance. Learn more about The Burden here. [Read More...]

Boo! Do You Believe in Ghosts?

Tonight at RCIA the question came up, “What does the Church teach about ghosts? This article is a good, detailed teaching on the Catholic understanding of ghosts and departed spirits. “There is no settled doctrinal or moral practice with respect to ghosts or apparitions,” says Lawrence Cunningham, professor emeritus of theology at the University of [Read More...]

Poirot is a Catholic

Did you know that David Suchet, who plays the detective Hercule Poirot, is a convert to Christianity? In this interview he recounts his conversion: He was brought up a non-orthodox Jew but had been dabbling in new age philosophies. At the end of a day’s filming, Suchet picked up the Bible in his hotel room [Read More...]