In the Gospel, our Lord warns us: " And when ye pray, you shall not be as the hypocrites, that love to stand and pray in the synago...

Dear readers, Please allow me to introduce you to a superb opportunity this coming Summer. Yours truly, together with a couple of colleagues...

To call St. Henrik obscure is only possible to an English speaking Catholic. For us, he is so obscure that he does not even have an entry in...

In my previous posts on the Church Fathers and their general reliability as authentic interpreters of the truths of the Gospel, we have loo...

I suppose this post is more of a question than a commentary. I have often noted that penances imposed by most confessors these days are a bi...

In the Diocese of Lansing, we have this magazine called FAITH that gets mailed out for free to the household of every regular Catholic. Thou...

The year 2011 was my first year since I began this blog that I was not employed by the parish as a DRE and Youth Director, so I had a lit...

St. Anthony: The Miracle Worker of Padua is one of those films that you always see in the Catholic film catalog and wonder if it is any g...

Merry Christmas to all of you, wherever you are! Here is an original composition a good friend of mine wrote. Some of you won't like it ...

Since at least the 5th century, the birth of our Lord Jesus has been celebrated liturgically on the 25th of December. This date makes s...

As we celebrate the birth of our Lord later this month, and as the Feast of the Immaculate Conception was this past week, we have will be he...

Great quote from the Bishop of Carthage on the value of Tradition in discerning the truth when a question is in dispute: " But there ...

A while back, someone suggested to me that I expand on my "Books That Won't Imperil The Soul" category on the sidebar and give...

Today, the First Sunday of Advent, 2011, was truly a turning point for the Roman Rite. After forty-one years of lame-duck ICEL translations,...