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No More Monsignori

Deacon Greg says the Pope is no longer going to be creating Monsignors. That does it. That’s the only thing I keep slaving away hoping for. I’m never going to be a  bishop, but I was hoping that I might just make monsignor. I know, I’m going to get in touch with Gamarelli and get [Read More...]

Obits at the DT

This is why London’s Daily Telegraph is the world’s best newspaper: their obituaries are famously sly, interesting and simply a good read. It turns out the man who invented the After Eight– wafer thin chocolate covered after dinner mint has just passed away. Brian Sollit was a somewhat eccentric bachelor who became a much respected chocolatier. [Read More...]

Ear of the Heart

Okay, so I’ve got this book review pile which is like one of those friendship cakes that keep on growing no matter how much you eat, and one of the books sat there most of the summer was The Ear of the Heart by Mother Dolores Hart. I glanced at the hype about the book and [Read More...]

Justice? What Justice?

Warning: Disturbing Content Three different stories have surfaced on the news today. They are mightily disturbing for all sorts of complex reasons. If you are squeamish look away. Here’s the first one: An Iowa Protestant pastor named Brent Giroux who is guilty of raping four boys (and eight more have come forward with accusations) Giroux [Read More...]

Catholic Priests May be Allowed to Marry?

Once again the mainstream media have taken a few words from the Vatican officials and pretty much got the wrong end of the stick. The Times of London reports here that Pietro Parolin–who is to become the new Secretary of State–has said that the tradition of celibacy is not a dogma of the church and therefore [Read More...]

The Case for Catholic Pacifism

Can a Catholic be a pacifist? I’m probably genetically biased. My ancestors were Mennonites. Like the Amish and Quakers and some other sects that emigrated to Pennsylvania, the Mennonites are pacifists. They not only are against war, they register as conscientious objectors and will not join the military. I don’t think it is possible to [Read More...]

Thank Heaven for Little Girls…Not

The UK law enforcement authorities decide that it is not worthwhile prosecuting abortionists who kill unborn baby girls…simply because they’re baby girls. Read about it here. The silence of the feminist pro aborts in the face of this outrage is deafening. What more can one say except that these cruel women clearly prefer the “choice” [Read More...]

No Obedience No Heaven

 Where there is no obedience, there is no virtue; where there is no virtue, there is no good; where there is no good there is no love; where there is no love, there is no God; and where there is no God, there is no Paradise”  – St. Padre Pio I became a Catholic because [Read More...]

Being Re-educated by Big Brother

A family bakery business in Oregon run by Christians Melissa and Aaron Klein has closed down because of death threats, aggressive bullying and poisonous boycott tactics by homosexualists. Why? They decided not to bake a cake for a lesbian wedding. You can read about it here. Putting aside the whole homosexuality issue,  what I find [Read More...]

I Wanna Be Like You

Do you remember the number from Disney’s Jungle Book in which King Louie sings, “I wanna be like you. I wanna walk like you, talk like you do.”? It sums up the fatal flaw in the human condition. Beneath all the world’s vanity, ambition, greed, lust and violence there is a kink–something twisted and a distortion [Read More...]