I keep reading about small and large acts of vandalism taking place at Catholic churches around the country. The latest took place in the LA...

Usually when we read about someone losing their job, we are saddened, especially today given the current state of the economy and the except...

Once you get past the idiotic car commercials and all the other ads that bombard us with their Memorial Day sales, I suggest you take a quie...

I believe I can safely say that it takes a lot to shock me. I been around both the block and the world a few times and have come face to fac...

As I mentioned as few weeks ago, Thomas Wenski, our bishop here in the Diocese of Orlando has been elevated to Archbishop and will soon be i...

Yesterday I mentioned the decision by the US Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) to withdraw from  the Leadership Conference on Civil an...

Here are just a few of the more recent happenings within the pro-death community: Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights (LCCR) i...

As a particularly relevant follow-up to my post of a few days ago, I suggest reading an interesting commentary by Joseph Wood on the current...

On May 23 the Holy Shroud Exhibition ended. Here's an interesting (but brief) video describing the exhibit of the Shroud in Turin and so...

As I have mentioned on several previous occasions, it is particularly heartening to observe the progress that's been made ecumenically b...

Back in the early sixties I attended Georgetown University for all of one year before receiving a congressional appointment to the United ...

It seems some folks are absolutely certain that they've located Noah's Ark, or what's left of it, on Mt. Ararat in the Aras Mou...

One of my disappointments this year is not being able to travel to Turin, Italy to view the Shroud of Turin, an ancient artifact that many (...

If you read this blog, even occasionally, you know that I have an interest in the renewal of Catholic higher education and the re-establishm...

Occasionally common sense comes from uncommon places. Apple, Inc., that icon of the hi-tech counterculture -- you know, the folks who used t...

Probably about 30 years ago, while browsing in a used book store, I picked up a copy of a book published by Maisie Ward (of the famous marit...

A couple of Texan millionaires have provided the necessary funding ($4 million) to start up a Catholic radio station in the Washington, DC m...

Actually, I should not have used the term "one-up man ship" when speaking of the Episcopal Church. It is, of course, a sexist term...

Readings: Acts 1:1-11; Ps 47; Eph 1:17-23; Lk 24:46-53 _________________ Let’s see, is anyone here retired? Hmm, maybe I should have aske...