It's been a while -- actually, several weeks -- since I last posted anything on the blog. I have an excuse, though. First, some old and ...

My, my, how things can change in just a few weeks... As a candidate our new president spent the past two years promising change in almost ev...

Continuing my commentary on our cruise to the Western Caribbean, our next port of call was Puerto Limon in Costa Rica. Like Panama (at least...

As a little break from my description of our recent Caribbean cruise, I thoght I'd share my homily from daily Mass this past Wednesday....

Okay, here's another chapter on our cruise to the Western Caribbean, I hope you're not tired of reading about it. After Cartagena we...

Well, we're home...back from our little 10-day jaunt in the Western Caribbean. Diane and I actually had a wonderful time, and we especia...

Diane and I are aboard the Jewel of the Seas, a Royal Caribbean cruise ship of about 90,000 tons. We left Miami late on the afternoon of Feb...

You might have noticed that this blog now includes two city guides from Schmap , a travel guide website that provides all kinds of neat down...

Some time ago a friend passed along a link to several audio recordings of Flannery O'Connor that were apparently made not long before he...

A busy schedule has prevented me from posting anything recently; and although my busyness hasn't really abated, I've decided to try ...

I've wanted to mention these two books for several weeks now, but always seem to forget. Their author is Father Jacque Philippe, a pries...

President Obama's official website, http://www.whitehouse.gov/ , already lists a comprehensive agenda that our new president hopes to en...

Click here to view a video of a powerful pro-life ad using President Barack Obama as an example of a typical candidate for abortion, a chil...

With suspiciously good timing, on January 23 the FDA approved the first human subject tests using embryonic stem cells. That this approval ...

How cool is this? Pope Benedict XVI is now on YouTube. That's right, the Vatican is using the popular video website to get the Word out ...

There's an element of tragic irony in President Obama's unqualified support for abortion at every stage of pregnancy. Our first Afr...

Yesterday, January 21, was the feast day of St. Agnes, a young girl barely in her teens, who gave her life for her faith in the early 4th C...

Today, on the 36th anniversary of the US Supreme Court's infamous Roe v. Wade decision, several hundred thousand people will march in Wa...

One of the more interesting questions bouncing around DC these days relates to where the Obama family will end up going to church on Sundays...

Just what we need, another pro-abortion Kennedy in Congress to further confuse and scandalize the faithful. What follows was wrtitten by Ann...