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FaithWorks 13 – Week Two in Lent

Here is the link to my weekly newsletter FaithWorks! – This week an article on Almsgiving, a picture of the Transfiguration, an article on the Wilderness experience, Points to Ponder and more.

Shocking Revelation: Sinners Found in Catholic Church!

For a Lenten penance this morning I read some mainstream articles about the Catholic Church. It’s amazing how, at this historic time, the Church is under full blown attack. Cardinal O’Brien resigns after allegations of “inappropriate behavior” by fellow priests, a “top-secret” dossier in the Vatican (which we all know must be full of terrible [...]

Apologetics Camp with Pat Madrid

Join me, Pat Madrid, Fr Mitch Pacwa and others for a fantastic apologetics camp this summer.

Inappropriate is Inappropriate

Today’s headline in the Daily Telegraph informs us that Keith Cardinal O’Brien of Scotland has resigned because of allegations by four men of “inappropriate behavior” from as far back as 1980. The problem with these allegations is that they are so vague, and yet this new term of universal damnation: “inappropriate behavior” seems to stick. [...]

Papabile of the Day

John Allen’s profile today: Peter Erdo of Budapest, Hungary–a very interesting candidate, and for the Malachy Prophecy hounds his names is Peter…cue Twilight Zone theme…

Papabile of the Day

John Allen reports on Luis Cardinal Tagle of the Philippines. Go here to learn more.

FaithWorks! – Free Newsletter for Lent

Having got my radio show up and running, and my website re-designed, I’m back into the swing (I hope) with my free weekly newsletter. Go here to read it, and use the box in the right sidebar to subscribe. The newsletter is different writing than my blog. It’s simple, practical and focusses on spirituality and [...]

Furniture Matters – The Chair of Peter

As a convert you come across some unusual practices within the Catholic faith (said he, making the understatement of the year) One of them for me was to find that there was a feast day for a chair. What was I–poor Bob Jones graduate that I was–to make of such an odd celebration. There it [...]

A Very Old Chair – The Early Papacy

Go here for a longish article on the early papacy. Were the first popes “monarchs”? If so in what way? Did the papacy only start with Emperor Constantine? Was Leo the Great the first “real pope”. Read this article to correct Protestant misunderstandings and attacks on the papacy on today’s Feast of the Chair of [...]

Going Back on Abortion

Driving down the pike this morning I pulled up behind a little blue two seater with a bumper sticker that said, “Keep Choice – No Going Back – Keep Roe” Here in Greenville, South Carolina one doesn’t see too many pro-abortion bumper stickers, so it made me stop and think, and as I stopped to [...]