As I mentioned in my previous post today, Pope Benedict XVI recently announced the creation of the Pontifical Council for the New Evangeliza...

When Alexander Solzhenitsyn won the Templeton Prize in 1983 he gave a stirring address that began with the words: "More than half a ce...

In yesterday's post on Bishop Olmsted , it seems I unintentionally misquoted Austin Ruse. I had taken the quote from an article publishe...

Our bishops, especially those in the U.S. and Western Europe, are under a lot of pressure these days to cave in and go soft on moral issues....

The catacombs of Rome continue to yield wonderful things. A recent archaeological excavation in the Roman catacombs of St. Tecla unearthed w...

To my few loyal readers...I have neither quit the blog nor fallen off the earth. For the past week my younger daughter, Siobhan, her husband...

I've always been intrigued by the work of archaeologists and its impact on scriptural studies. In recent years archaeology and its relat...

 I don't especially enjoy Father's Day. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy the cards and phone calls, and this year one of our daughter...

The following is my brief homily for yesterday, Wednesday of the 11 week of Ordinary Time. _____________________ Reading: Mt 6:1-6, 16-1...

The other day, during one of those early morning conversations that move from one non sequitur to another, I was asked by a parishioner, pr...

Thanks to The Lewis Crusade blog for posting this ad for a candy bar that has a very obvious pro-life theme. I couldn't resist includin...

A few moments ago, after a nice relaxing dinner with the beautiful Diane, I picked up my little Asus netbook and checked out thecatholicthin...

There's a story -- and I'm not sure how accurate it is -- that when Lord Cornwallis surrendered at Yorktown on October 19, 1781 the ...

If anyone had doubts about the increased political polarization of our nation, the below video should remove them. Speaker of the House Nanc...

Helen Thomas. After a week of near universal recrimination for her blatantly anti-Semitic remarks, Helen Thomas made the right decision and ...

Bishop Luigi Padovese, the Bishop of Iskenderun, in Turkey, was murdered on June 3 by his driver and aide, a Muslim who had worked for the ...

Helen Thomas, the leftist icon of the White House press corps, let her true feelings show the other day when she told the Jews of Israel to ...

Our former bishop here in the Diocese of Orlando is now officially the fourth Archbishop of Miami, having been installed on Tuesday, June 1....

It never fails. Whenever I complain about things going "wrong" in my life -- you know what I mean, things that just didn't hap...