If The World Is Trying To Distract You, Then It’s Probably Holy Week
Oh, look at the calendar! It IS Holy Week. So right when you’d really like to settle your gaze on Jesus, meditate over the mystery of the Incarnation, sing praises that your sins have been forgiven,...
View ArticleIndiana Bishops Release Statement On Indiana’s Religious Freedom Restoration Act
Six days after Governor Pence signed the Religious Freedom Restoration Act heard ’round the world into law, the bishops of Indianapolis respond with a statement. Would you believe on April Fools’ Day?...
View ArticleJust Bake The Cake! Just Deliver The Beer! What’s The Crucial Difference?
You tell me, citizen. See, a friend of mine posted a story up on his Facebook wall. Something about a trucking company getting sued by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. The firm was...
View ArticleThe Indiana Pizza Vendor’s Plans For Their $842K Windfall…
Mammon is not happy about this development. In a report that first appeared in The Daily Mail, Mr. O’Connor says that as much as his little pizza parlor could use all that money — he explains that...
View ArticleYet Again, The Supreme Court Hammers Away At The HHS Mandate
The Beckett Fund For Religious Liberty shares the news, Washington, D.C. – Moments ago, for the sixth time in a row, the Supreme Court took steps to protect another religious objector from the...
View ArticleArchbishop Kurtz: “Marriage is and always will be the union between one man...
Today was the day oral arguments in Obergefell v. Hodges came before the Supreme Court of the United States. The opening statement by Mary Bonauto made it 39 seconds before the questioning by the...
View ArticleBecause Vincent de Paul Was Once A Muslim’s Slave
Life got you down? Things perhaps haven’t turned out as you planned? Do you think everyone else has got it so easy? Your neighbors, for example, or those fortunate people who come into a considerable...
View ArticleWill The Vatican Let Teilhard de Chardin Help Save The Church?
Does the name Teilhard de Chardin give you the willies? When you saw it in the title, did you immediately think that heterodox thoughts were about to be served up? No? Perhaps, like me up until a few...
View ArticleHere Is What A Near Occasion Of Sin Looks Like…
Here is an example illustrated with a photograph from Joe Six-Pack’s Gearhead Catechism™. The late Fr. John Hardon, SJ, explains it well in his Modern Catholic Dictionary, OCCASION OF SIN. Any person,...
View ArticleBEHOLD! The YIMCatholic Swimsuit Edition…
Joe Six-Pack, here, reminding folks about the great swimsuits available for ladies over at Rey Swimwear. Two-piece, one-piece, accessories, suits for kids, etc. They’ve got it all, and they haven’t...
View ArticleThe Supreme Court Unanimously Finds That Speech Is Created Equal
In other words, the government can’t decide that one type of speech is more worth protecting than any other. Once again, just like back in 2012 in the Hosanna-Tabor case, the Supreme Court has come out...
View ArticleThe #1 Reason the Catholic Church Won’t Support Same-Sex Marriage…
It’s quite simple, actually. Oh, you won’t see the reason talked about by folks using rational thinking towards an irrational people. You won’t see the reason being raised by the dissenting justices of...
View ArticleConfused About The HHS Mandate And Bullying The Little Sisters Of The Poor?
Join the club.Evidently there isn’t enough important stuff happening in the world these days, so the Obama Administration plays a game of chicken with the Little Sisters of the Poor. Go figure....
View ArticleMan In Same-Sex Marriage Denied Communion At His Mother’s Funeral Mass UPDATED
View image | gettyimages.com It happened on July 10, 2015 at St. Helena Catholic Church in Amite, Lousiana. Steve Hardy, writing for The Advocate out of Baton Rouge, has the story, Tim Ardillo said he...
View ArticleThe Little Sisters Of The Poor Take Their Case To SCOTUS
A few days ago, I was going to mention that the main reason why some cases are settled justly the first time, while others aren’t, has a lot to do with which circuit court the case is heard in. When a...
View ArticlePresident Obama Embraces the Fait Accompli He Wasn’t Looking For UPDATED
What a difference 4 and 1/2 years makes. Wait. It’s been 5 1/2 years? Has it really only been that long since I wrote the post saying that the HHS Mandate struck at the heart of religious freedom? Has...
View ArticleOn the HHS Mandate, We’re Approaching the Line of Departure REVISITED
I didn’t know it at the time this was originally written, but the Little Sisters of the Poor were our other secret weapon, aside from prayer. Their stand against the Administration was the ultimate...
View ArticleFor What Happens To Our Bodies When We Die, And Rise Again…
“And he said to me: Son of man, dost thou think these bones shall live? And I answered: O Lord God, thou knowest.”—Ezekiel xxxvii, 3 I’ll be the first to admit that I have the faith of a child. I...
View ArticleApparently, There USED to be Secrets of Fatima
Then, the Vatican went and published everything in the clear. No, really. Let me Google that for you. No more secrets, see? You’re welcome. Also, this just in from our correspondent at E.O.T.T. Jesus...
View Article“Where Do We Get Such Men?”
That’s the last line from the Korean War film, The Bridges At Toko-Ri. Over at Christopher Closeup, Tony Rossi shares a true story about the seemingly unlikely friendship between the two Navy pilots...
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