Mainstreamed word Straightjacket bound, witless, enslaved, Plugged, budded into a formless, meaningless world, to offer all  Its fanciful,  ...

As I mentioned in a recent post, I've been preparing for the re-opening of our parish Bible Study, which had essentially been shut down ...

Sometimes memories of people and events from long ago just pop into my aging brain. Only rarely can I articulate why this happens. Often eno...

Alleluia!  After 16 months of, well, nothing much, our parish's Bible Study sessions will recommence on Monday, July 26. Back in March o...

There was an old joke that listed a few things the pope doesn’t know about the Church. As I recall (hard to do these days), one of those thi...

Did you catch the latest? I expect you did. Anthony Blinken, the Secretary of State — yes, that’s our Secretary of State — has asked the   ...

The title of this post consists of a series of words, synonyms really. Each describes the left of our country, which sadly, has commandeered...

I expect this subject to demand more than one post, so today's will be only a start. But first, some background…my own, so you’ll know w...

Watching or reading the news these days can certainly be disheartening, but if we ignore what’s happening in our world we run the risk of al...

Okay, I’m all excited because it looks like we’ll be restarting our parish weekly Bible Study sessions soon, probably in early August. After...

I'm pretty sure I've mentioned this book before -- The Habit of Being , a collection of letters by Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964)...

In 1919, in the confused and disillusioned world immediately following the First World War, the poet W. B. Yeats wrote a poem (“ The Second ...

Obviously upset about the U. S. Bishops’ decision to address the issue of Eucharistic coherence — i.e., the reception of the Eucharist by th...

First, a brief note on the resumption of our Bible Study sessions: God willing, we should be able (I hope) to resume our weekly Bible Study ...

Man, am I bummed! Betelgeuse isn’t going to explode…at least not real soon.  If, like me, you’re an avid fan of things astronomical, you’ll ...