Breaking: OSV, Notre Dame, Others File Lawsuit -UPDATED
Our Sunday Visitor announced this minutes ago: At 11 a.m. Eastern time today, 43 Catholic dioceses and organizations — including Our Sunday Visitor and the University of Notre Dame — filed religious...
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One of the pleasures of writing for Our Sunday Visitor, either as a freelancer (or pamphleteer!) or as a columnist for The Catholic Answer has been getting to know the great people who make up their...
View ArticleThe Francis Puzzle: Is he an agent of continuity or change? – UPDATED
We’re still getting to know Pope Francis. To me he seems like the embodiment of Catholic universality, in that his words are thoughtful, reasoned and never kneejerk. Like his predecessor, Benedict XVI,...
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If you’re not subscribing to The Catholic Answer Magazine (which you should because it’s a little six-times-a-year gem of Catholic information on scripture, doctrine and tradition, but I won’t scold!)...
View ArticleThe Carmelite Nuns of Compiègne Wore Priestly Collars
As with the Martyrdom of St. Charles Lwanga and his companions we today remember a group of martyrs whose story is not nearly as well-known as it should be. And as with Lwanga and the Ugandan martyrs,...
View ArticleI Never Told You! My Column Won an Award!
Earlier this year when I was really involved with the pneumonia, I learned that “Ora Pro Nobis”, my regular column for The Catholic Answer, had been honored with an award from the Catholic Press...
View ArticleAnchoress Shows Up to Give Homily at Mass! Also, Fatso!
In a manner of speaking, anyway. A parishioner from a parish in Maine sent me a link to a live-streamed video of their Ash Wednesday mass, wherein the priest jumps off of the Ash Wednesday homily I...
View ArticlePatheos Catholic Joins Joint Call to End Capital Punishment
This morning the editorial boards of four prominent and politically diverse Catholic news publications came together to call for the abolition of capital punishment in the United States of America. We,...
View ArticleThe Francis Puzzle: Is he an agent of continuity or change? – UPDATED
We’re still getting to know Pope Francis. To me he seems like the embodiment of Catholic universality, in that his words are thoughtful, reasoned and never kneejerk. Like his predecessor, Benedict XVI,...
View ArticleKyrie Eleison: The “Year of Mercy” Can’t Come Too Soon…
“The mercy of God is not an abstract idea but a concrete reality,” writes Pope Francis. Well thanks be to God for this emphatic good news, and for the nearly here Jubilee of Mercy. That it begins one...
View ArticleMy New Book is Out! I Have a New Book!
So…this happened: And seriously? I have no idea what to tell you about it. It’s called Little Sins Mean a Lot: Kicking Our Bads Habits Before They Kick Us, and I probably should never have written it....
View ArticleBreaking: OSV, Notre Dame, Others File Lawsuit -UPDATED
Our Sunday Visitor announced this minutes ago: At 11 a.m. Eastern time today, 43 Catholic dioceses and organizations — including Our Sunday Visitor and the University of Notre Dame — filed religious...
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