Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? (Rom. 6:3) *** I am corresponding with a blog reader who is struggling to find a word to describe "living for one's self; living without God or any independent authority; blindly doing what everyone [...]
Vanity Fair has published an interesting article on the Secret Life of the Vatican, an investigative report into the "gay lobby" of Rome. Though the article contains a good deal of what the author admits to be gossip and speculation, it nonetheless seems to present an accurate portrayal of what life as a "gay priest" at [...]
Dana Gioia has a long and passionate article at First Things in which he laments the Great Divorce between culture and the Catholic Church. Here are some of his best observations (emphasis mine). Sixty years ago, it was taken for granted that a significant portion of American writers were Catholics who balanced their dual identities as [...]
The Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception, perplexing to most people, can be understood and applied to our lives with the use of a simple metaphor. Your glorying is not good. Know you not that a little leaven leavens the whole lump? Purge out therefore the old leaven, that you may be a new lump, as you [...]
I got the air times wrong in my previous post. These are the correct times! My appearance as J.R.R. Tolkien in Joseph Pearce's EWTN special on The Hobbit is as follows ... BILBO'S JOURNEY: A CATHOLIC TRAVEL GUIDE TO THE HOBBIT Thursday, 12/05 at 11:00 PM ET (10:00 pm Central) Friday, 12/06 at 9:30 PM ET [...]
Tomorrow, Thursday, Dec. 5 I'll be featured portraying J.R.R. Tolkien in the EWTN Special Bilbo's Journey - the Hidden Catholic Meaning of the Hobbit with Joseph Pearce. The show airs at 9:00 pm Eastern / 8:00 pm Central - but it's preceded by an interview with Joseph Pearce on Life on the Rock at 8:00 pm Eastern [...]
Anthony Pasquale has passed along a selection culled from a book by the late Fr. Robert D. Smith on the Catholic elements in Shakespeare. I've published the article in full on The Christian Shakespeare website. Here is a very interesting portion of it on how sanctity works, both in Shakespeare's plays, and in life (note as well that [...]
Forget the right wing rage over Pope Francis' Apostolic Exhortation. It's hardly about politics and the economy, anyway. It's all about Jesus. If you only read one paragraph from the Exhortation, read this one ... Jesus’ whole life, his way of dealing with the poor, his actions, his integrity, his simple daily acts of generosity, and [...]
I'll be on my favorite network a lot this Advent ... Bilbo's Journey - A Catholic Travel Guide to the Hobbit featuring Joseph Pearce with Yours Truly as J. R. R. Tolkien. Thursday, Dec. 5 at 10:00 pm Eastern / 9:00 Central - WORLD PREMIERE Friday, Dec. 6 at 8:30 pm Eastern / 7:30 Central [...]
The title of this post is from a phrase Sean Dailey used, when commenting on my troubles with Facebook ... You should have seen some of the hate leveled at Bishop Paprocki last week in some Facebook comboxes. I refused to join in. It would have merely been dancing with devils. Now a man is never [...]
