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What Must I Do?

Marcus Grodi’s Coming Home Network is an Catholic apostolate that works hard to inform, mentor, guide and pray for separated brothers and sisters as they make their journey to the Catholic faith. Marcus’ new book What Must I Do to Be Saved? meets Evangelicals on their own turf and explains the fullness of the Catholic faith [...]

Follow My Tweets

Come now my hearties, on this National Talk Like a Pirate Day dontcha be wantin’ to follow me tweets? I’m nearing 1500 followers and I need ye to sign up by clickin’ on the symbol on the side. Arrrgh.

I’ll Fly Away Oh Glory!

Yesterday was the memorial of St Joseph Cupertino who is the patron saint of pilots and airline stewards and writers of children’s stories about people who fly. This is because he was known to levitate. Taylor Marshall gives a summary of the saint’s life and wonders here. It is saints like Joseph of Cupertino who [...]

The Odor and Oil of Sanctity

After the school Mass this morning I was showing the second graders all the stuff we use for a baptism, and I opened the aumbry and showed them the holy oils. Just the slightest touch of the holy oil canister with sacred chrism leaves a fragrance on your hands. I’m walking back across the church [...]

Catholic Vote? What Catholic Vote?

When are the pollsters and pundits and duuhh journalists going to stop talking about ‘the Catholic Vote’? Every poll shows that the ‘Catholic Vote’ is split right down the middle just like the rest of the country. It seems to me that the Catholics therefore are indistinguishable from the rest of the population. Read More. [...]

Catholic Vote? What Catholic Vote

When are the pollsters and pundits and duuhh journalists going to stop talking about ‘the Catholic Vote’? Every poll shows that the ‘Catholic Vote’ is split right down the middle just like the rest of the country. It seems to me that the Catholics therefore are indistinguishable from the rest of the population. Read More. [...]

Faith Works

Today sees the launch of my new weekly e-newsletter. I have felt for some time that the blog and social media could be complemented with a short, punchy weekly newsletter that focusses on practical Catholicism. On the blog I tend to muse about things theological or liturgical or Anglo-American. The blog is for discussion and [...]

Religion Freedom and Responsibility

The fat prophet said “All arguments are theological arguments.” The fat prophet, of course, being G.K. Chesterton. So it is with the present political debate in the United States. The country seems divided between those who pay taxes and those who receive benefits–those who take responsibility for themselves and those who cannot or will not. [...]

Fat Prophet and Fat Profit

The fat prophet said “All arguments are theological arguments.” The fat prophet, of course, being G.K. Chesterton. So it is with the present political debate in the United States. The country seems divided between those who pay taxes and those who receive benefits–those who take responsibility for themselves and those who cannot or will not. [...]

Quarr Abbey, Isle of Wight

The Abbey Church The Monastic Life – a Stairway to Heaven