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Media Madness about Catholicism

When you actually know something about something and then read what journalists write about it, you can’t help wondering if they’re being just as ignorant and arrogant about everything else they write. Here are some of the glaring errors in the coverage of the papal resignation: 1. Pope Benedict was a failure because he was [...]

Is the Next Pope the Last Pope?

Here’s the piece published on National Review Online today…expanded a bit. In the year 1140 an Irish bishop named Malachy visited Rome with a group of monks. They climbed the Janiculum Hill to thank God for the safe completion of their journey. While there (as the story goes) Malachy had a vision in which he [...]

Duane Mandible on Pope’s Resignation

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 [...]

Read Gargoyle Code on Kindle

Read Gargoyle Code for Lent. It’s available here on Kindle for just $7.99. If you want hard copy go to my website here. The price is the same as Amazon: $12.95. To read an excerpt go here. Read Creative Minority Report’s review of Gargoyle Code here.  

Benedict XVI the Precedent Setting Pope

The Catholic Church has a tradition of selecting elderly “caretaker popes” who end up being “history making popes.” When Pope John XXIII suddenly called the Second Vatican Council the church was turned upside down. When Benedict XVI created the Anglican Ordinariate he made history. Never before had a new structure been established to allow Protestants [...]

Radical Radiant Catholicism

In his book Evangelical Catholicism George Weigel says, “There is no future for lukewarm Catholicism.” There is not only no future for lukewarm Catholicism, but there was no past or present for it either. Let’s face it, the gospel is only good news when it is subversive. It’s time for what Weigel calls “Evangelical Catholicism” [...]

The Practical Practice of Fasting

Here is my latest article for National Catholic Register. Why and how to fast…

The Curse of the Car

I suppose it is the Mennonite in me, but I have become increasingly disenchanted with the car. Some week soon I want to add up the hours I, and my wife and my children spend in our cars and gather a family meeting and ponder and wonder together what life might be like if we [...]

Gargle For a Cold Gargoyle Code for Sin

Gargle to get rid of a cold. “Gargoyle” to get rid of sin. The Gargoyle Code that is. Price $12.95 If you order The Gargoyle Code today you’ll probably get it in time to start reading for Lent. The Screwtape Letters type book for Catholics has a devilishly clever letter for each day in Lent from Shrove Tuesday through [...]

Plutocrats and Democrats

I’m re-reading Joseph Pearce’s excellent biography of Chesterton, and am struck at how the same battles we are facing today, Chesterton faced a hundred years ago. The portly prophet wrote on just about every subject under the sun, but one of his passions, and one of the areas in which he was most controversial was [...]