Let me tell you what today has been like, and we’re only a few hours into it. Those of you who don’t understand what a low-down, bitchy sinner I am may be surprised. Those of you who do know (or suspect) that I am a bitchy sinner will be gratified. I started the morning crabbing to my hu...

For reasons not worth getting into, there are times when my entire body is just one big ball of pain, where every inch of me aches. Usually it has to do with an incoming storm, or a weather system that is passing nearby. It happened tonight. We had a beautifully warm day, and I had no idea what the ...

It’s very bright-white-snowy-glarey out there. It’s a day for lounging on the sofa with a steaming hot cup of Mystic Monk Hazelnut Coffee and catching up on some Lenten reading. I understand some found my prognostications on the economy yesterday much too cheerless and my email suggests ...

On February 14, a Passionist Nun from St. Joseph’s Monastery posted their first news and photos of the January 27 ice storm which - though barely mentioned in the press, or by the steak-eating, super-bowl-watching president - claimed over 50 lives and (as of the 14th when the nun was writing) ...

A couple of emails from Catholics expressing displeasure at the news that Nancy Pelosi is heading to Rome with a contingent of legislators and will take a meeting with His Holiness, Pope Benedict XVI. Wrote a former marine who seem pretty angry: I am deeply concerned about this matter as I personall...

Who needs the saints, what’s the point? A nicely done video by Fr. Jim Martin, author of My Life With the Saints, which has been endlessly plugged around here, and with good reason. It’s a good way to spend 3 1/2 minutes. I’ve written before about the Communion of Saints and what i...

May we all keep the people of the Congo, and their plight in our prayers. “How many deaths will it take ’til he knows, that to many people have died.“      Bob Dylan   KAMPALA (AFP) – The Ugandan army on Sunday accused Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) rebels of hacking to...

  "Beloved, how should we regard the loving-kindness of our Savior? We should cry out and praise His goodness with power and with trumpets! Not only should we appear like Him, but should follow Christ's example for heavenly conversation. We should carry on what He began. In suffering, we should...

  "If we confess Christ, we will become like Peter. We will be considered blessed as he was. Flesh and blood haven't revealed to us that Jesus is the Christ and the Son of the Living God, but the Father in heaven has, so that we can become citizens of heaven. This revelation carries to heaven t...

No one is free from the risk of persecution . . . But how serious it is for Christians who are unwilling to suffer for their own sins when He who had no sin suffered for us!  The Son of God suffered in order to make us children of God, but people won't suffer to continue being children of God!&...