Tridentine Community News (March 1, 2009): Care in Handling the Blessed Sacrament We have stated before a concept that seems as though it should be self-evident to Catholics, and even to non-Catholics: If we truly believe that the consecrated bread and wine are the Most Precious Body and Blood of ou...

Key excerpts from Archbishop Charles J. Chaput, O.F.M. Cap., "Rendering Unto Caesar: The Catholic Political Vocation," an address delivered at St. Basil's Collegiate Church at the University of Toronto (February 23, 2009):I think Catholics -- and I mean here mainly American Catholics -- need to reme...

A fringe benefit of a heel injury I sustained some months ago is that the only kinds of aerobic exercises my doctor will permit me to do now, also allow me to simultaneously read. So today I while I was working out, I was reading this rather dated book from the period of the scandals in the Church b...

I was watching the news at work today and there was this interview with Pelosi concerning Gitmo. I was simply appalled to witness again that this unflattering specimen of human flotsam has bobbed her way across the Potomac to become, in truth, Speaker of the House. Isn't it the Peter Principle that ...

Manya Brachear and Margaret Ramirez, "Lutheran task force recommends changing gay-clergy policy" (Chicago Tribune, February 19, 2009): "A task force of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America recommended Thursday that its leaders make changes to allow gay and lesbians in committed relationships t...

Apparently we have no southern border anymore. A single Arizona rancher named Roger Barnett has turned over 12,000 illegal aliens crossing his property since 1998. Now we're allegedly catching about a dozen Arabs a month coming up from the south. Mr. Obama, welcome Mr. Osama: "Marching toward hell" ...

"Vatican Accepts Darwin's Theory Of Evolution Compatible With Christianity" (AHN, February 12, 2009). This may not be inaccurate reporting, if indeed it is true, as the article states, that "Archbishop Gianfranco Ravasi, head of the Pontifical Council for Culture, said Darwin's theory which the Chur...

For your information: Guidelines on the celebration of the EF Mass posted on the Archdiocese of Manila website (December 8, 2008) contain the following provisions: 2. This form of Mass is to be celebrated only at the Christ the King Chapel of the Metropolitan Cathedral of Manila once a month, but no...

Richard J. Mouw was my first philosophy professor. I had Philosophy 102 with him at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan, in the Fall semester of 1970. That was almost 40 years ago. He was then a vibrant junior professor at the beginning of his career, and I was a young and callow fellow in my s...

I remember reading in British novels about Candlemas decades ago. Whatever else one may say about the British, they've preserved a lot of these traditional Catholic names in their culture. Last Monday, however, I had the pleasure of actually assisting at "Candle Mass" -- the Mass of the Purification...