Popin' Ain't Easy

So, why did God rest on the 7th day, at the beginning? For this day, today, Holy Saturday. From Matins according to the Byzantine rite: ...

***The stained glass images below are used with the permission of  Stained Glass, Inc . Thank you, Rachel! Anyways, I was reading this po...

I've been busy, hence the lack of posting, but I have noticed something in the recent hijinks to redefine marriage. Very quickly: 1....

I'm throwing this out there just to make sure I beat the Holy Father to the punch. If'we're to believe the reports that internal...

He clocked Richard Dawkins in an atheist vs. theist debate at Cambridge  as to whether or not religion has a place in modern society. Gran...

Pope Francis has re-appointed the Curial heads on a provisional basis . None of this is overly shocking. I will reiterate that whatever his ...

This was referenced in a book I was reading, but no specific citation was given. The most evident mark of God's anger, and the mos...

Thanks to Karl for bringing this up . It looks like the first among Orthodox equals is going to show up for Pope Francis's formal instal...

Pope Francis has had a couple of pretty remarkable items for so early on in his pontificate. First, I'd advise you to read his first h...

Ok, ok, so it wasn't +Ranjith or +Burke. I'll survive and so will the Church. But I definitely didn't expect Cardinal Berg...

I've been hearing a lot of folks profess the need for "another John Paul II." Is this a widespread view? Even JPII himself...

In the 1962 calendar, it's the Feast of Pope St. Gregory the Great. I'll take that as a good sign. Ora pro nobis.

I'm not a professional, so I'm not going to pretend that I know who is going to be the next Successor of Peter. I'll just contin...

The mainstream media is starting to increase their conclave coverage. What we have now is a focus starting to turn on the factions forming a...

In dealing with the 18th century, a bunch of you probably guessed that our favorite would have been Clement XIV, given that he suppres...

Haskovec recently sent me a article about the Ten Reasons Why Cardinal Burke Will Be The Next Pope . The author recently did a follow-up to ...

Per Rorate , and most appropriate: It is very likely that the new Pope will be Italian, as before John Paul II": it is the prediction...

Kyrie Eleison.

Just when we have published our article about the efforts to get Cardinal Scherer elected pope, I go over to the FoxNews web site and see th...

But, if we're to believe Sandro Magister, there are some weird champions popping up on both sides. By the way, to fully grasp the signif...

Piers Morgan shows us how, as Penn Jillette (devout atheist) completely exposes him as being not just a heretic, but a complete douche as we...

We've been waiting for this type of stuff to come up. Didn't have to wait long. First, you've got folks going ape over the ...

Per Rorate , there are still 5 cardinals who haven't even made it to the General Congregation in Rome yet. That blasts the whole p...