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  • Fr. Peter M.J. Stravinskas on ‘The Report Heard Round the World’

    The Pennsylvania grand jury report is misleading and had an agenda. One observer noted, “This report should not have been on a news channel, but on the History Channel.” Some … Read More

    Fr. Peter M.J. Stravinskas on ‘The Report Heard Round the World’
  • Attorney General Josh Shapiro and Joseph Goebbels In ‘The Reckoning’

    In substance and style, a report on Catholic priests by Attorney General Josh Shapiro mirrors one by Joseph Goebbels, Adolf Hitler’s Minister of Propaganda in 1937. I love … Read More

    Attorney General Josh Shapiro and Joseph Goebbels In ‘The Reckoning’
  • Knights of Columbus & Other Cheers & Jeers I Missed

    Democrats chide a judicial nominee’s ‘extreme’ Catholicism; Fr Georges Lemaître honored by science; the art of Pater Karl Stadler, A midwinter night’s dream, & more. Note … Read More

    Knights of Columbus & Other Cheers & Jeers I Missed
  • The Credibility of Bishops on Credibly Accused Priests

      Sixteen years after the Dallas Charter set a ‘credible’ standard to suspend hundreds of accused priests, bishops are only now trying to define what ‘credible’ … Read More

    The Credibility of Bishops on Credibly Accused Priests
  • The Dark Night of a Priestly Soul

    Do you know what you were doing on any given day in 1972? Can you document your answer? If you are a Catholic priest, you may have to and your life may depend on … Read More

    The Dark Night of a Priestly Soul
  • Tim Roemer at USA Today on How to Save the Catholic Church

    A Christmas barrage from the leftist news media insists that the Catholic Church should abandon priests and tradition to save itself and some bishops seem to agree. Writing for … Read More

    Tim Roemer at USA Today on How to Save the Catholic Church
  • The Gifts of the Magi: On the Twelfth Day Comes Epiphany

    Epiphany marks the Birth of the Messiah revealed to the Gentiles symbolized in the story of the Magi, but on a deeply personal level, it is also our Great Awakening. What are we … Read More

    The Gifts of the Magi: On the Twelfth Day Comes Epiphany
  • These Stone Walls: The Cheers and Jeers of 2018

    Facebook suppresses These Stone Walls, a Supreme Court nominee’s scarlet letter, a Catholic summer of shame, Readers’ Choice for most read post of 2018, and more. As These Stone … Read More

    These Stone Walls: The Cheers and Jeers of 2018
  • Silent Night and the Shepherds Who Quake at the Sight

    The shepherds of our Nativity Story lived difficult lives in the social strata of the Ancient Near East, but they are summoned by angels to Bethlehem for a reason. “Silent … Read More

    Silent Night and the Shepherds Who Quake at the Sight
  • Fr Alfred Delp, SJ: An Advent of the Heart in Prison

    From the infamous Tegel Prison in Berlin, Germany in 1944, Fr. Alfred Delp wrote a meditation for the 3rd Sunday of Advent entitled, “The Conditions for True Joy.” After we … Read More

    Fr Alfred Delp, SJ: An Advent of the Heart in Prison
  • Advent for Those Who Have Ever Mourned in Lonely Exile

    If you have known the suffering of alienation, loss, or sorrow, then enter this Advent with a spirit of expectant hope, and be a beacon for those still held captive. “O Come, O … Read More

    Advent for Those Who Have Ever Mourned in Lonely Exile
  • The Once and Future Catholic Church

    The Book of Daniel and the Gospel of Mark warn of a great tribulation to come. Its early signs are already upon us and require invoking the Patron Saint of Justice. A strange … Read More

    The Once and Future Catholic Church
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Stone Walls do not a Prison make,
Nor Iron bars a Cage;
Minds innocent and quiet take
That for an Hermitage.
If I have freedom in my Love,
And in my soul am free,
Angels alone that soar above,
Enjoy such Liberty.

Richard Lovelace (1618-57) To Althea from Prison

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Remember those who are in prison, as though in prison with them; and those who are ill-treated, since you also are in the body.

Hebrews 13:3

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  • Felipe on Attorney General Josh Shapiro and Joseph Goebbels In ‘The Reckoning’
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