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Help! There’s a Mennonite in Me

You have to understand that I have a Mennonite in me. I can’t help it. He lurks there in his black hat and chin beard watching me and nodding knowingly. He’s one of my ancestors. They were all Mennonites and Amish and various sorts of Pennsylvania Protestants. Go to Pennsylvania Dutch country today and see [...]

I Wannabe a Superhero

I tell the boys in school that they should be a priest because every boy wants to wear a cape and a cool hat and do amazing things, and what other profession is there today in which you can wear a cape (except being a French policeman) So capes and hats and feats of derring [...]

Did Jesus Have Brothers and Sisters?

I was brought up as an Evangelical fundamentalist Christian and when we read the verses in the Bible that spoke of Jesus’ “brothers and sisters” we concluded that they were the other children of Joseph and Mary. What I didn’t know is that this idea was unheard of in the early church, and that even [...]

Caitlin O’Rourke – From the Archives

Remember Caitlin O’Rourke’s views on praying for the dead: I thought it was really sad and the priests wore black vestments and they had a pretend coffin in front of the altar and I didn’t want to go because Maureen wanted me to come over and play but Aunt Margaret was in her I’m not taking any nonsense [...]

Major Marian Post

Make sure your drop by the blog tomorrow for a major apologetics post on the Blessed Virgin for Mary’s Month–The History of the dogma of Mary’s perpetual virginity–why it matters and how to explain it to Protestants.

Old Monk on Submission

The prayer at the heart of prayer: “Thy Will be Done.”

Nazi Zombies are Real

The teenaged guys are down in the basement on X-box and when I go down I realize they are playing some horrible game where they have to slaughter everybody in sight. When I remonstrate they call out cheerfully, “It’s okay Dad. They’re Nazi Zombies.” Have you ever thought about the meaning behind horror movies and [...]

Annunciation

An Annunciation for Mary’s month of May

How St Mathias Shows the Way

Today is the Feast of St Mathias–the Apostle who was chosen to replace Judas Iscariot. His selection is very instructive–showing us the way to make decisions as Catholics and being a defense of the Apostolic Succession and the living, dynamic authority of the Church. It all comes from the passage in the Acts of the [...]

A Coming New Catholicism?

Read the Anchoress here on a new Catholicism in America that is up to date, with it, ready to cleanse the church of ‘corruption’ and totally in line with the ideological aims of the new world order… It links up with what I’ve written here.