Popin' Ain't Easy

Apparently, they were surprised when Cardinal Ratzinger was elected. Which makes me wonder: Who did they want to win? Just something to pond...

A. The continued dissolution of the Anglican Communion (Catholic ordinariate set up in January, five bishops converting already, current Ang...

Nobody saw that coming. Here's the story from WWRN : Leaders of conservative Anglicans on Wednesday rejected a proposed covenant to hold...

We've already reported on the five Anglican bishops who have announced their intentions to swim the Tiber . Well, we've got a few up...

Thanks to the Sanctus blog for pointing out this ditty from the Catholic World Report . Here's the deal. Many moons ago, a war was foug...

Not a whole lot if anybody really bothered to look at it. In an earlier post , I had referenced Bishop Vasa's comments on this topic as ...

Let's go ahead and get this out of the way now. THE POPE DID NOT SAY THAT USING CONDOMS IS OK!!!!!!!! Everybody got that? THE POPE DID N...

Remember that old song by The Scorpions? It was about the Fall of Communism in East Germany. That's not what this post is about. Instead...

I doubt anybody here has heard of him. He's currently serving a 25-year sentence in an Alabama penitentiary. I found out about him throu...

We need more exorcists . Citing a shortage of priests who can perform the rite, the nation's Roman Catholic bishops are holding a confer...

Archbishop Nienstedt of Minneapolis-St. Paul denied the Eucharist to a bunch of heretics and schismatics, per the Star Tribune . That's ...

With all the stuff about Anglicans flying around lately, I almost missed this bit from The Baltimore Sun via Rorate : Mount Calvary Episcop...

If you do, then you probably thought I'd forgotten about it. Well, you were right. It wasn't until the new apostolic exhortation cam...

But it's probably not what you think. If you figured this to be another post about some Anglican prelate heading for Rome, you're wr...

First, the headline in the Telegraph: Church of England in crisis as five bishops defect to Rome Does anybody else think that the word ...

I had just mentioned in the prior post re: Bishop Morlino what I figured would happen if a group of folks wanting a TLM took the same course...

We've covered his problems before . Even as he rose into the ranks of our favorite shepherds, he was ticking people off. It's pretty...

In a mainstream publication? Shocking, to say the least. Thanks to Haskovec for this entry . I think Bishop Farrell was one of the bishops w...

Everybody should take a look at this recent bit from Boniface over at Unam Sanctam . If you've ever read Malachi Martin's Windswept ...

From an address on the World Day of Migrants and Refugees (I didn't even know such a thing existed): Venerable John Paul II, on the occa...

I just got emailed this article from the LA Times giving details of the massacre in Iraq. Not for the squeamish, but necessary for understa...

Speaking of souls of the faithful departed : Grieving Catholics in Baghdad marked All Saints Day in mourning on Monday for 46 Christians kil...

Rest In Peace Indulgences are available. Take advantage. Somebody needs them. You'd want someone to do it for you. Current regulations i...

Having recently lost two friends from my parish to another church, I can't help but wondering whether the attempt to pray, to ...