Popin' Ain't Easy

Watching the rather rancid crop of bowl games to this point has spurred something of a thought. Consider the following , which is playe...

Consider the following items. First, there's the Legion of Christ. Despite whatever good folk might be or have been affiliated with it...

Merry Christmas, all. I have been fighting the flu, so my attempts to get back to regular posting have been thwarted for now. I wish you ...

Isn't it remarkable that the author of the GQ piece uses blasphemy so easily and without any apparent reservations at all? We should all...

If you've been under a rock lately, you might have missed the story where Phil Robertson, patriarch of the Duck Commander clan, was...

Not me, but some folks way more deserving. Let me tell you about a family. The father is a physician working in one of the poorest c...

For why in your calamities do you complain of Christianity, unless because you desire to enjoy your luxurious license unrestrained, and t...

Today's Gospel is grounded in the story of The Deluge, the Great Flood. The story of which, by the way, is going to be a movie with Russ...

I saw this on Creative Minority Report: The owner of the last remaining abortion facility in Mississippi told reporters last week that she...

Boniface at Unam Sanctam has done a marvelous series of posts on the recent controversy about whether or not hell is empty. I am linking to ...

Remember that previous bit about German bishops looking to ok sacrilege and how Archbishop Mueller explained that it couldn't be done ? ...

Differences of opinion in the application of principles can sometimes arise even among sincere Catholics. When this happens, they should be ...

A couple of more Pope Francis stories that will get zero mainstream circulation have hit. First, the Scalfari interview that we previously...

Here are some snips from a recent address that Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran, president for the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue,...

The Anglican Death March continues. While not on the prowl for brains, they are looking for women bishops. In an odd twist, if they had m...

And were suddenly silenced. Have you noticed a drop-off in papal coverage lately? After all the trou-dropping over how the Holy Father...

Most probably don't recall, but he was our Dream Team pick for heading up the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples . T...

The " interview " that Pope Francis did with atheist Eugenio Scalfari, in which Mr. Scalfari didn't even take notes and someho...

Things are probably about to get rough for them. They just released a statement re-affirming their opposition to the HHS mandate. Given tha...

From this Zenit interview: At this point of the interview, several news agencies joined us. A Vatican Radio correspondent asked about the...

There has been a lot of press about efforts in Freiburg, Germany to allow re-married divorced Catholics to desecrate the Eucharist by receiv...

Just when you thought you'd seen everything, we get the latest promotional efforts for Obamacare , courtesy of Colorado Consumer Health ...

I wanted to offer this bit from First Things in response to frequent questions we get about Catholic unity, schism, etc. I'll just repr...

Try talking to one of our brethren that lives in Israel. Unless its pandering to the Hagees of the world in an effort to Judaize Christianit...

I'd like to start this post by recalling some words from yesterday's Gospel: When he reached the place, Jesus looked up and said, ...