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A few days ago, my wife and I got into an argument about some silly little thing. I thought we were done with the issue, when it cropped up again the next day. I got upset and was not a very happy bald man. Of course, my wife also unhappy with me and honestly neither…
Read MoreHead on over to check out my latest post in Catholic Lane’s weekly series “Front Row With Francis” which provides reflections on the Holy Father’s weekly audiences. This week, Pope Francis, drawing on St. Paul’s letters to Timothy and Titus, reflected on the qualities necessary for Bishops, priests and deacons to bear credible witness to the…
Read MoreOutside My Window…Fall foliage is fully present in my neighborhood. Fall is my favorite season and I am always amazed at the beauty of the colors. This photo was taken at the end of my street. Just gorgeous! I am thankful…For the road trip we took with our Pastor and a few families from our…
Read MoreA reader writes:A Protestant coworker is asking me questions about the seven “extra” books in the Catholic Bible. He recently asked me why in the book of Baruch it says that the Babylonian captivity would last seven generations when in Jeremiah it says it would last 70 years. I could not find an answer to…
Read MoreGod is incorrigibly personal and does stuff like this.
Read MoreThere’s the latest panic attack source for Reactionaries filled with the dread that, say what Pollyanna fools like me will, the pope is a heretic. The remark (not sure how accurately translated, since the Italian is “demiurgo” and looks to me like “demiurge” is meant) comes from his comments on evolution the other day:“God is not…
Read MoreAs the Ebola epidemic unspools, one of the phenomena that reliably rears its head among humans terrified for their own skins is scapegoating. Whether it is foolish Liberian bishops blaming the plague on homosexuals or demagogic FOX news talking hairdos seeking to drive all victims from our soil in mindless panic, the pattern is the…
Read More…so we will have somebody to pray for. Bishops like Archbishop Lewis Zeigler of Monrovia, Liberia, who helpfully tells his suffering flock that Ebola is divine punishment for homosexuality.File under: Not Helping.
Read MoreThe Dems may have soured on Obama, but there is still one ardently pro-abortion politician that Americans love and support without question. Curiously, he is, if anything more intensely and unquestioningly supported by “prolife” conservative Christians than by the left. Indeed, for many “prolife” Christian conservatives, to question this zealously pro-abortion politician is like questioning…
Read MoreThe Diocese of Raleigh writes:Philip Johnson, a 30-year-old Catholic seminarian from the Diocese of Raleigh who has terminal brain cancer, has written an article responding to Brittany Maynard, the 29-year-old woman who has publicly stated her plan to commit suicide due to the fact that she has a terminal brain cancer. Johnson is vocal about…
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