BREAKING: Harvard’s Black Mass to Be Held Off Campus CANCELLED
And Now: Satanic black mass ‘postponed indefinitely’ amid outcry. Earlier, Perhaps our prayers are already having an effect. This just in from The Harvard Crimson, The Harvard Extension School...
View ArticleThoughts About The Minor Miracle That Occurred At Harvard University Yesterday
Consider this post a wee after action report by your favorite strategic corporal, Joe Six-Pack, USMC. You may be thinking, “Where do you get off declaring what happened at Harvard as being a miracle,...
View ArticleThink “Charity” and Act “Love” = Praying Without Ceasing
A Meditation on the High Priestly Prayer Before I became a Catholic, the word contemplation meant something altogether different than it does to me today. Chalk that up to intellectual laziness...
View ArticleA Clarification About The Deaths Of 800 Children In Tuam, Ireland, And...
…rolls of the presses of The Irish Times. Writing therein, Rosita Boland teases out more truth from the story by interviewing Catherine Corless, the local historian whose patient, self-funded, efforts...
View ArticleN.T. Wright On Reality, Gay Marriage, And Being On The Wrong Side Of History
Over at First Things, Matthew Schmitz shared a video, and transcribed a rough draft of an interview that noted theologian, and retired Anglican bishop, N.T. Wright gave with J. John , of the Philo...
View ArticleTo Pray For Our Christian Brethren Who Are Under Attack In Iraq UPDATED
Where I live, it’s another lovely Saturday. The kids slept in, the lawns are being cut, Father’s Day barbecues are being planned. Comparatively speaking, all is well. That is not the case in Iraq these...
View ArticleI’m Going To Go Out On A Limb Here, And Say I Prefer My Parish Priest To Be...
Which is to say without any temporal weapons. Unfortunately, the tragedy in the FSSP parish in Phoenix, Arizona, took a dreadful turn when the surviving priest’s firearm was used in the slaying of...
View ArticlePraise Report: Michael Schumacher Has Regained Consciousness
Back in January I asked folks to pray for the 7 time Formula One champion’s recovery from a skiing accident. Schumacher was put in an induced coma in order to stabilize him after the accident. When his...
View ArticlePsalm 119, The Hebrew Letter נ (Nun), And A Prayer
As Christians around the globe adopt the Arabic letter ن (nun) as their profile pictures on social media, in solidarity with our persecuted brothers and sisters in Iraq and Syria, I was led to read...
View ArticleWant To Hear Christian Joy? Listen To The Singing In Kirkuk Cathedral…
The little video below comes via Natalia Trouiller’s Facebook page. She is accompanying the delegation of French bishops that is visiting Iraq right now. Here are the people we are praying and fasting...
View ArticleJames Foley, Marquette ’96, Writing On The Power Of Prayer UPDATED
The reports are flooding in that journalist James Foley has been beheaded by the terrorists of the Islamic State. He had been kidnapped while on assignment in Syria several years ago. If the reports,...
View ArticleJames Foley’s Last Letter: Prayers, Family, and Love
Throughout my Marine Corps career, I wrote many letters home to my family. I served long before the advent of social media, so the letter writing kits available at the PX were what I used to write home...
View ArticleJoe Six-Pack’s Succinct Thoughts On ISIS, Archbishop Sheen, The Whirlwind At...
It’s been a weird month so far in the internet version of Catholiclandia and we’re only up to day 6. You may have noticed that I haven’t posted a cotton-picking thing since the month began. I assure...
View ArticleI’ve Been On Retreat, Climbing A Mountain With An Elevation Of 6,500 RPM…
You probably think I’m off my rocker, but given how unsatisfying this month was shaping up to be, it was time for a break. A break from blogging, hand wringing, and all the other bad stuff happening in...
View ArticleWalt Whitman’s Prayer of Columbus
Happy Columbus Day! I’ve a poem to share with you on the day on which we celebrate Christopher Columbus’ completing his voyage to the New World. And though nowadays the smart money seems to be on...
View ArticleThe Synod As Seen By A Normal Person…
Good thing the meetings last for only a few more days. Proverb time. Watching the hour by hour synod coverage is like watching the gyrations of the stock market in real-time. If you can’t stomach...
View ArticleLatest News From The Church Of God Without God…UPDATED
Actually, depending how you look at it, this news is either four years old, or ever new. Over at the Atheist Channel, Rational Doubt runs an op-ed of a Rabbi of Humanistic Judaism (?) whose thoughts...
View ArticleOftentimes, The Best Blog Post Is The One With The Fewest Words…
Grasshopper recommends Counsels of Light and Love of St. John of the Cross for more thoughts like the one above.
View ArticleFor Prayers Such As These For Advent
Before I became a Catholic, I had no idea what Advent meant. It was just another one of those weird, mysterious, Catholic words for a time in the year before Christmas. Nowadays, I appreciate it more...
View ArticleDispatches From A Holy Land Pilgrimage…
Let us go to the place where His feet have stood (Psalm 132:7). That short verse (from Eusebius’s Greek translation of the psalm) sums up the entire reason for coming to the Holy Land. It’s as simple...
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