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Guest Blogger Fr Rutler

Readers will be familiar with my ‘guest bloggers’ being satirical altar egos. Now for a change I will be introducing some real guest bloggers–some well known and some not so well known. Fr George Rutler is pastor of the Church of Our Savior in downtown Manhattan. A convert from Anglicanism, Fr Rutler is a regular [...]

The New Evangelization – Stick ‘Em Up – 1

OK folks. Here’s the deal. Once a year I make an appeal for donations. In the past, before I came over to Patheos I could assure you that there were no ads on my blog. No longer. I apologize for the ads, but the ads allow the Patheos folks to pay me a little something [...]

New Blogroll

I’ve been missing a blogroll from my new Patheos blog. What non Patheos blogs do my readers recommend? Names and links in the combox please.

Sacramentalized but not Evangelized

Catholics of the older generation were put through a “Catholic assembly line” where they were sacramentalized but not evangelized. For the church to be renewed this has got to change. Go here for my latest article for Catholic Online.

The Strength of Kolbe

Here is a good post on the martyrdom of Maximillian Kolbe. I wrote last week about sanctity versus being good. The atheist will explain altruism in evolutionary terms: “Don’t you see that for the survival of the tribe primitive people soon began to see that altruism helped them to survive as a people. If they [...]

Relics at Our Lady of the Rosary

Here is a video of the relics we had for veneration at our All Saints’ Vigil at Our Lady of the Rosary Church on Wednesday evening and Thursday.

Hector Molina Pure and Simple

I met Catholic lay evangelist Hector Molina at the Catholic leadership conference last Spring in Philadelphia. He travels the country speaking and sharing the faith–dynamic resource for the New Evangelization. Hector writes his endorsement of my book Catholicism Pure and Simple over here. Thanks Hector!

Sin or Sanctity?

Sin is monotonous. Sanctity is totally original. Underneath this observation lurks a deeper truth–that sin is boring. We believe in original sin, but there is nothing original about sin. This is because evil is derivative. Satan cannot create anything, all he can do is twist or destroy or distort what is good. Take any sin [...]

Stick ‘Em Up

Once a year I have a campaign for donations. This will start next week. This year, however it is different because I am at Patheos. In the past I have always tooted the horn that I need your donations because the blog does not have ads. Now I’m at Patheos you’re pestered with ads. I’m [...]

The Little Girl as Warrior

“Sanctity! It must be won at the point of a sword!” said the little warrior St Therese. If anyone has read her Story of a Soul and gave it up as a sentimental exercise in French bad taste they should pick up The Last Conversations. The first book might just put folks off with the cute [...]