Franciscan University of Steubenville drops student health plan over HHS mandate...
I was sad to learn that my childhood parish in Santa Cruz was vandalized last week. But when beauty is defaced, we must witness to hope...
It was a sorrow to learn that my childhood parish was defaced by vandals last week. Mission Santa Cruz was founded in the late 18th Century by the Franciscan Missionaries who first brought the Gospel of Christ to the native peoples of California. Since the beginning, the Mission, and the Holy Cross Parish which succeeded it...
Refresh your knowledge about 6 types of Catholic churches...
Anglicanorum Digest...
Four months since its establishment by Rome, the Stateside Ordinariate for Anglican groups entering Catholic communion is coming off a banner week, the first of many soon to come. On Saturday, two top-tier American prelates each ordained a former Episcopal priest to the transitional diaconate...
Colorado civil unions bill killed in special legislative session...
Video: How Pixar almost lost Toy Story 2 forever, and how a newborn baby named Eli saved the day...
Applying our enduring truths to our defining challenge...
The Catholic Church offers a rich overview of its thought, summarized in the Compendium of Social Doctrine, to guide Catholics in bringing truth to society’s problems. In his introduction, Cardinal Renato Martino, then president of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, wrote...
Introducing Fisher More College in Fort Worth, Texas...
As you may know there are two other Colleges with the name "Saint Thomas More" in the United States - the one in New Hampshire being the best known. Our Name Beginning on May 5th, the College began a new chapter by expanding the name of the College and creating a new website.
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Housewives desperate for sanctification...
The TV show series Desperate Housewives has ended and I can proudly say that I have never watched a single episode. However, I’ll be the first to admit that society is onto us Catholic housewives. Really! Yes, we stay-at-home moms truly are the desperate types, only not in the way that our sexually polluted culture wants you to believe. No...
Departing leader of NARAL laments the fact that so many young people are pro-life...
America and Molech...
Understanding the Sins of Sodom in a post some time ago made for some pretty grim reading from the Old Testament. If you have the stomach for some even harsher language and more shocking imagery–but which reads like yesterday’s newspaper from our society take a look at Ezekiel chapter 16. You thought Sodom was bad...
Is marriage of God or is it of man? Because if marriage is just a contraceptive and dissoluble social arrangement, then the "gay marriage" boosters are right...
Nearly fifteen years ago, when I was Episcopalian, a leader of our local "Journey of Faith" program described to the group how she had made some sort of knitting or crochet or tapestry thing for a friend of hers when the friend had gotten married many years prior.
Concerning graciousness in speech and love for one another - yes, even on blogs...
In the last few days I have never had to refuse to post so many comments. It started last Thursday evening when I posted a reply to the President’s announcement that he now favored gay “marriage.” I opined that I thought his understanding of Jesus and his reading of the Christian moral vision was flawed because it was partial.
A week ago last Saturday, I witnessed a terrible motorcycle accident...
I was the first person to check on the victim, and was not prepared for what I would find. The young rider had died instantly, but the scene was like something out of a war zone. When the police arrived, even veteran offices were shocked. I was not able to recognize the young man, and spent the evening in sorrow and shock for him and for his family...
Towards the light of His truth: The conversion story of Todd Meade...
Cold feet in match between Rome and Lefebvrists...
Photo: Madrid's enchanting El Escorial...
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Video: An exclusive interview with Bishop Bernard Fellay of the SSPX...
The most recent rubbish from the Washington Post's E.J. Dionne. Wherein Fr. Z comments...
I am sure you readers agree that conservative Catholics, orthodox Catholics, faithful Catholics, want everyone to have the joy of being in the Church, to be a true and faithful Catholic who actually thinks with the Church. We don't agree with liberals that the Catholic Faith is just one path to God, equal among many.
Tell me who you honor and I will tell you what you are...
Each year, controversy arises about the honorary awards that universities give to individuals judged worthy to receive them on the basis of a criterion of excellence. Scenes of students or faculty sitting with backs to invited speakers abound. Yet no one can logically “honor” himself. It is something for others to do.
Marriage is not a right, but an office...
Despite differences in origin of understanding, the Dalai Lama’s pronouncements are remarkably similar to Catholic teaching, and next to the Taoist couple, Catholic sexual teaching—particularly Blessed John Paul’s teaching on the Theology of the Body—seems quite free. And yet gay activist Dan Savage is not attacking the Dalai Lama to cackling...
When the "myths" turn out to be true...
"My yoke is easy, and my burden is light"...
I can see that sometimes "my yoke is easy and my burden is light" is just what it sounds like: an invitation to make a change for the better, for the easier, for the happier. You are burdened with sin, and your life is miserable and difficult, and you have no peace or joy. So finally you decide to cast off this worldly burden...
The contradictions of liberals and conservatives...
Most Americans who are in the slightest degree politically active or interested incline to one of the two chief political positions common in this country, what we call conservatism or liberalism. In fact, each of these blocs constitutes not only a political grouping, but a cultural group as well, each with its favorite publications and web sites...
