Popin' Ain't Easy

This post from Rorate is worth reading in order to get some perspective on the recent events surrounding Pope Francis's visit to Turkey....

No, not the network with Flash and Arrow. The Congregation for Divine Worship and Discipline of the Sacraments.  While a good thing to see i...

My wife and I welcomed our newest addition this morning. She is beautiful, healthy, and already such a blessing. Mom is doing well. Everythi...

We mention him every now and again here because of that simple fact. Whether it's defending the Church's teaching on marriage an...

The Eye of the Tiber does an excellent job with its latest effort: Pope Francis Not Sure How To Make Sense Of What He Just Said “I said ...

Just a quick thought. We live in an odd world wherein one group calling for the Pope to defend the Church in order to resolve the faithful...

I was trying to cipher the numbers on something. How many openly homosexual characters are on your major tv shows and movies these days? How...

Regardless of whom we elect, we will never see a renewal of society until we embrace the peace of Christ in the Kingdom of Christ. Lord, hav...

In the course of the Synod's proceedings, we heard a lot about folks trying to warp the notion of certain settled Church teachings, part...

This is wonderful news. We mentioned a while back that this wonderful parish and home to the TLM in New York was under threat of clos...

Much is made of the poor and suffering. In thinking of those, do not neglect our brethren undergoing their final purification. They s...

If we can't call Cardinal Kaspar a heretic, does the word actually mean anything anymore?

I'm a little late coming with this, but it's probably a good thing because there has been more of a chance for the information t...

Well, there's always this: Thanks to Matt Kozak for putting this on twitter.

We all know that Pope Paul VI is to be beatified at the close of the Synod. I'm making a prediction now. Write it down. Remember w...

First, it's become obvious that the Synod wasn't some kind of modernist carnival with non-stop heretical hijinks. There were goo...

His Excellency, Bishop John Chrysostom Lan Shi has passed away. This brave shepherd has passed away at the age of 89. He spent 14 years as a...

A couple of things should be noted from the outset, First, remember that you are only hearing from the Synod scraps and bits and pieces ...

A couple of items as the Synod draws nigh. First, in the interest of some of the items we posted here , we are going to try to step back f...

We've talked about America's creepy obsession with sports before . The non-stop trou-dropping over Derek Jeter's imminent retire...

It's a weird thing to consider when you think about all the recent stuff we've seen in Church news lately. Tacit approval of homosex...

I've been seeing the above acronym with increasing frequency. For those who don't know, it stands for "Do I look like I give a ...

For your prayers and such. He's doing much better, but we still are having difficulty locating the origin of the problems. Regular blo...

Please offer some prayers for my father and his health. Thank you all in advance.

Tancred has posted some of the roster for the folks invited to the upcoming Synod on the Family. Ignoring the invites to all the non-Cathol...