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Catholicism Pure and Simple

Here’s what people are saying about the new edition of my book Catholicism Pure and Simple: As a Catholic radio host, I’m always on the prowl for resources that are loaded with both the “what” (accurate content) and the “how” (effective communication).  Father Dwight Longenecker’s Catholicism Pure and Simple nails both of these qualities.  For [...]

I Will Spit You Out

Today’s poll from the Pew Forum tells us that nearly one in five Americans are ‘nones’. That is to say, they do not affiliate with any religious denomination. Fox News headlines it as “America No Longer Has a Protestant Majority.” The reality is that all the denominations are down and an increasing number of Americans [...]

FaithWorks!

As part of my work for the upcoming Year of Faith, I’ve started FaithWorks!–a free, weekly newsletter. Each week there are two or three articles on the practical practice of the Catholic faith. If you haven’t signed up already, sign up here.

Trampling Down the Seven Deadlies

I’ve got this exciting new theory I want to try out on you. I’ve just thought of it myself, and maybe it’s old hat and been around forever, but I’m only a convert, so if it is the classical spiritual teaching of some great monastic teacher or spiritual director and I’ve never heard of it, [...]

Fisking the Piskies

My friend Christian calls the Episcopalians the ‘piskies. I hadn’t heard that one before, but it fits. Here’s the letter from California Bishop Marc Andrus on the installation today of the new Catholic Archbishop of San Francisco–Abp. Cordileone–a staunch defender of marriage. Knowing the Anglicans pretty well, I thought I’d do a Fr.Z type fisk [...]

Old Monk on Detachment

True detachment is to love all things according to their worth.

Sanitizing Sin

A little article from the Daily Telegraph has brought out the Jeremiah in me this morning… In England a couple of lads with stout appetites have been banned from an “all you can eat” restaurant. The story’s here. These boys should get on a plane to the USA. We have chains of “all you can [...]

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Affection for Angels

from the Office of Readings–a sermon by St Bernard. “We should then, my brothers, show our affection for the angels, for one day they will be our co-heirs just as here below they are our guardians and trustees appointed and set over us by the Father. We are God’s children although it does not seem [...]

Marvelous Michaelmas

from the Office of Readings–a sermon by St Bernard. We should then, my brothers, show our affection for the angels, for one day they will be our co-heirs just as here below they are our guardians and trustees appointed and set over us by the Father. We are God’s children although it does not seem [...]