In a recent post -- December 6 -- I included a few paragraphs from Pope Francis'   apostolic exhortation, Evangelii Gaudium in which h...

Frank Buckles This year we celebrate, if I may be pardoned for using that word, the centennial of the start of World War One. I was born...

In yesterday's post -- More Murdered Christians? Ho-Hum...  -- I provided a link to an excellent article by Michael Brendan Dougherty i...

This will likely be a disjointed post full of seemingly random thoughts, but every so often I'm just overwhelmed by what I see in the wo...

Every so often I write here about the ongoing and growing persecution of Christians throughout the world, especially in the Islamic world. I...

Readings: Is 42:1-4, 6-7; Ps 29; Acts 10:34-38; Mt 3:13-17 Mary Queen of Scots, as she waited those long years in prison before being ex...

Isn't it remarkable that so many who came before us turn out to have been pretty smart? This is no new revelation; it's been known f...

Aren't you glad you're not the pope? Every pope from Peter to Francis has been asked to bear a cross of one kind or another. For som...

Open Doors has published its latest World Watch List of the fifty countries with the worst records of Christian persecution. As you might e...

I've been thinking a lot about St. Augustine lately. This happens whenever I fall into the "doom and gloom" trap and need to b...

66 years ago today, the kids in the Peanut Gallery responded to this question for the first time with, "It's Howdy Doody time!...

For the second time in a week, the readings for a Mass at which I was asked to preach included the genealogy the begins Matthew's Gospel...