Popin' Ain't Easy

As we come to the close of October, the Month of the Rosary, I must pay homage to the Blessed Mother. When most people think of Our Lady, th...

I would suggest that the difference is that abortion is worse than the other two. At the very least, I'd figure them to be equally bad. ...

This is an easy post to make because we really don't know anything about this guy. He doesn't even have his own feast day, sharing t...

The answer to this question should always be the Blessed Mother. Always. However, due to contacts with other ecclesial communities, many Cat...

This is big news. Recently, Alexei has been too busy tying himself to Putin to do much else. Zenit reports that he's trying to be nice,...

And I have no idea what to think about it. The most interesting parts came from the non-Catholics. The interventions by the Catholics presen...

You remember Bishop Martino , right? Thank you Rocco Palma for keeping us up to speed on the Shepherd of Scranton, PA. Here's the deal....

Zenit has the full story. The Pope affirmed this in the preface to the first of 16 German-language volumes, which was presented Wednesday. ...

Awesome movie that tracks the day-to-day life of Carthusian monks. Watch it. You will be a better person for doing so.

According to Zenit , Cardinal Kaspar's latest shpiel is another exercise in ignoring reality. Despite all the sad divisions in the histo...

Group asks IRS to investigate Catholic bishop against Obama Just a bit from USAToday on what happens to bishops that try to take their vocat...

I am writing to all the Churches and I enjoin all, that I am dying willingly for God's sake, if only you do not prevent it. I beg you, d...

That's the way the students used to characterize the religion classes at the highschool where I used to teach. That's the message th...

The above quote is the latest in a series of asinine musings from Joe Biden regarding his (ahem) Catholicism. Yet somehow Palin is the one d...

We have several Bibles in the Throwback house, but the one we mostly use is a Douay-Rheims with Haydock commentary. What say you? NAB? NIV? ...

No, I'm not losing my mind. I know this isn't a picture of St. Luke. It was his feast day last weekend, though. Everybody knows Luke...

I'm going to approach St. Teresa with some caution. She's a mystic, after all, and that's how you have to treat them. Reading st...

Patriarch Bartholomew is the Patriarch of the See of Constantinople. As such, he is supposed to be hailed by the Orthodox as the "Ecume...

I thought this was an interesting story. Cardinal Stickler is one of the greatest liturgical scholars of the last half-century. John Paul II...

We mentioned St. Michael. Now, we should recall those nameless angels who are always watching over us and giving us assistance, usually with...

It might be St. Callistus I. He was pope back in the third century and, quite frankly, had to put up with a lot of crap. From the get-go, mo...

The Synod continues. It turns out that Rabbi Cohen was not the only non-Catholic invited to speak. Rev. Robert Welsh, a Protestant minister ...

Breaking rumors on the "clarifying" document for the Traditional Mass motu proprio. From Rorate Caeli : According to the document,...

Why? Because I ramble on and on here and neglect those closest to me. St. Michael is my patron saint, and I let his feast day slide by witho...

Invitation to a Paradigm Shift I am a liturgical curmudgeon. Anyone who knows me will tell you so. They will describe me in those terms: ...