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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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