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Catholics Come Home!

I met Tom Peterson, the founder of the Catholics Come Home project when I was in Atlanta leading a parish mission last month. He gave me a copy of his book, and I’ve enjoyed learning more about his fantastic apostolate, Catholics Come Home--which produces and distributes television ads encouraging Catholics to return to the faith. [...]

A Vision of Pope Francis’ Reform

About ten years ago I was writing a novel. It was a “papal potboiler”–a thriller about “Petrus Romaus” the final pope from the so called prophecies of St Malachy. I finished the rough draft and then gave up once I realized that 1.that the papal potboiler was a ho hum sub genre of the airport [...]

The Church of Surprises

One of the most ridiculous misrepresentations of the Catholic Church is that it is an old fashioned, stuck in time, unchanging and inflexible institution. From the wordling’s point of view, it seems a no brainer. Here is a two thousand year old institution run by old white guys. They have guards with halberds for goodness’ [...]

The Vicar on Pope Francis

Guest blogger, The Rev’d Humphrey Blytherington is Vicar of St Hilda’s, Little Snoring with All Saints, Great Snoring. He is a graduate of Plymouth University. He completed his studies for the ministry at Latimer Hall, Durham. He is married to Daphne and enjoys home brewing, model railroading and is an avid member of the Great [...]

High Mass Low Class

Why do so many people feel it necessary to find a category for the new pope and place him into and a label with which to brand him? Is he a liberal? Is he a conservative? Is he low church? Is he high Church? So many seem to want a label so they can either [...]

Is Pope Francis a Liturgical Liberal?

There have been some rumblings amongst traditionalist Catholics that Pope Francis is going to turn out to be a liturgical liberal. Apparently a few extremists are worried that Pope Benedict’s encouragement of the Latin Mass and his bringing back some of the older styles of clerical dress and papal customs are going to be thrown [...]

Pope Francis’ First Angelus

Mary with a Club

St Nicholas famously slapped the heretic Arius. Looks like Our Lady takes ever sterner measures against heretics.

Pope Francis Jokes with the Cardinals

by Brandon Vogt

Duane Mandible on the Last Pope

Guest blogger, Duane Mandible is a contributing editor to The Truth Hurts, a bi-monthly journal of politics, economics and opinion. He also contributes regularly to Freedom Monthly; Illuminations and The Sojourner. Duane is the author of Guns and Knives will Save Your Children’s Lives. He is Vice President of the Sacred Society of St Philibustre, and enjoys hunting rattlesnakes, square dancing [...]