I don't expect to post very much on the blog for a while since our daughter and her four little ones are visiting for a few weeks. We...

Another by Fr. Rutler. This time the always on-target Father George Rutler addresses all those public funerals for anti-Catholic Catholics -...

Homeschooling resources. For all you homeschoolers out there, here's a link to Sally Thomas' blog, Icons & Curiosities , on whic...

Here's one I missed the other day, NARAL's press release on Senator Ted Kennedy's death: Washington, D.C. -- Nancy Keenan, presi...

Next year is the 400th anniversary of the death of Matteo Ricci, an Italian Jesuit missionary who brought the Faith to China in a most remar...

Here's an addendum to my previous post about the community of Episcopal nuns in Maryland who are entering the Catholic Church. Click her...

I hadn't intended to write anything more about Senator Kennedy's death than the few words I had already written , but I've seen ...

A community of 10 Episcopal nuns in Maryland, along with their chaplain, will be welcomed into the Catholic Church by Archbishop O'Brien...

Every once in a while, as I stumble around the web, I encounter something that truly amuses and is worth passing along. Go to this site an...

I didn't know Senator Kennedy personally, and met him only once, very briefly and many years ago. And so I won't say too much about ...

The US Bishops have launched a new website ( http://www.usccb.org/romanmissal/ ) designed to lead both clergy and laypeople through the upco...

Well, it's starting. It looks like the persecutions will begin soon, and in Western Europe of all places, the very cradle of Christendom...

I'm teaching a liturgy course to a group of catechists and Catholic school teachers this weekend, and in searching the web for a particu...

Last week, after a year-long battle with brain cancer, Robert Novak died at the age of 78. He was an honest man and one of the nation's ...

As you have no doubt heard, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, at their national convention in Minneapolis, voted to ordain homosex...

Every year, for the past dozen years or so, Beloit College (Beloit, Wisconsin) has published its "Mindset List" in an attempt to i...

Late last week Diane and I made a snap decision to take a few days off and head for St. Augustine, Florida. We both needed a break from all ...

Whenever I allude to my belief that within a few short years the Catholic Church in the US will suffer severe persecution, folks tend to dis...

Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who has accused those animated folks at the congressional town hall meetings of being "disrupters" and ...

Here are a few interesting (at least to me) items I came across during a brief check this morning of the news on a few of my favorite websit...