So several times in the history of this blog I have harped on the problems related to missionary orders and missionary priests (see ...

This weekend I was traveling out of state and went to Mass in a beautiful historic church from the late 19th century. It has preserved al...

Because I was so busy I actually managed to let yesterday pass without noting that two days ago, June 29th, was the ninth anniversary of th...

For as long as I can remember following developments within the Catholic world, there is always a particular way the mainstream conserva...

Let's suppose - just hypothetically - that most of all Catholic marriages today are invalid. And let's suppose that the reason t...

Hey Lionel. Yeah, you know who I'm talking about. You go by "Catholic Mission." Do you want to know why in all the many years...

Rorate is featuring an article by their anonymous cleric Pio Pace. In this article , Pio Pace posits what is in my opinion a ridiculous ...

Back at the Second Vatican Council, the Declaration on Religious Liberty Dignitatis Humanae made a very interesting statement. The open...

No, I'm not giving up blogging. But I am giving up making any effort to comment or follow the developments of the current pontificat...

This week, my Facebook feed is on fire with Catholic friends and Pro-Life activists insisting that it has never been a Pro-Life position...

So, if you read this blog you probably know who Dave Armstrong is. He has been doing popular Catholic apologetics for years. He runs ...

In today's Gospel, we heard the story from the Gospel of John of the woman caught in adultery. Of course it is the source of the famo...

Many of us were saddened at the sudden death of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia last week. Republicans and Democrats are going roun...

Pope Francis has concluded his historic meeting with Patriach Kirill of Moscow and All Russia in Cuba this past week. Their Joint Declar...

For the better part of three years now I have been promising a very large expose of the ridiculous Bayside apparitions and their absurd mes...