Parishioners lobby the legislature for the bill after former pastor pilfered over $1 million dollars from parish coffers. Folks, I briefly break my Lenten blogging moratorium to comment on this development from Connecticut, where the state legislature has taken up a bill that would strip the local C...

The creation of an atmosphere in which basic Constitutional rights were ignored under during the Bush years might be contributing to this bizarre measure introduced in the Connecticut legislature which would “remove control of Roman Catholic parishes from bishops and place them instead in the ...

(-Picture by Getty Images via Daylife) Former Prime Minister Tony Blair recently spoke out about his faith and his concerns that Christianity is being marginalized in the increasingly secular UK. He is proposing that it is time for Christians to speak out in support of their faith. He admits that as...

I do not generally write about pop-culture, the media, current events, etc., yet as of late a menagerie of issues have orbited about my cranium and I hoped to make a few points. As I thought about the self-congratulatory fest known as The Oscars I wondered if all of those very well known and very in...

So, like, you just have to take this exam. Some highlights: A deeply devout Catholic couple has just returned from their fiftieth anniversary celebration, when suddenly the husband falls to the ground, clutching his chest. What is the most productive action for the wife to take? 1. Call 911 2. Put h...

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...

It’s ba-ack! Just in time for Darwin’s 200th birthday celebration worldwide. . . Past snook-cocking on evolution under attack by the Discovery Institute’s secret-agent spyscope Wedge Strategy: Florida Follies: Billions of Years and Dollars VANISH! Let’s Play Lose Ben Stein...

It’s amazing how, whatever Democrats were against when done by George W. Bush, they’re in favor of when Barack Obama does it. When George W. Bush set up the Office of Faith-Based Initiatives, using government money to support religious organizations, Democrats said it was unconstitutiona...

I found a fairly amusing article entitled ‘Debunking the debunkers’  - it’s fraught with all sorts of standard biased objections, simply substitute ‘Islam’, ‘Judaism’, or or any other relusional ’system’, play the words, it becomes pretty mu...

Catholic League: CATHOLIC DEMOCRATS CHIDE POPE On January 29, nearly 50 Catholic Democratic congressmen sent a letter to Pope Benedict XVI stating their concerns over Bishop Richard Williamson’s comments questioning the historical record on the Holocaust. The bishop belongs to the St. Pius X Socie...