Pope Benedict Talks Role of Parents at Last 2012 Sunday Angelus

At the last Sunday  Angelus of the 2012 year Pope Benedict talked about the role of parents by looking at example of Mary and Joseph. Vatica...

CBS Sports Writer Dayn Perry Unleashs the Shellfish Argument on Angels Baseball Player

Baseball sports writer Dayn Perry over at a CBS sports blog commented on an article that dealt with the state of gay athletes in pro sports ...

Does U.S.Catholic Editor Need Some Empathy For Those That Claim Religious Liberty Concerns ?

That is the feeling I got just after the reading the title of his blog post Religious liberty for businesses: Protected freedom or excuse to...

Coach Lou Holtz Films A Catholics Come Home National TV Ad For College Bowl Week

Coach Holtz from Catholics Come Home on Vimeo . There is a big write up here and an interview video at CATHOLICS COME HOME AIRS SUPER BOWL...

Syrian Catholics and Orthodox That Don't Believe in the Real Presence ? BBC Syria Christmas Story

While there are no doubt some low Church Protestants and Evangelicals in Syria most of the population is Orthodox or Catholic. This Get Reli...

Young Church Attendance Might Be Down But Those That Go Are Devoted

This is an interesting article about how there might be fewer young folks at Church those that go are very devoted to it. An observation I h...

Day After Christmas Pope Talks To Vatican Square Flock on St. Stephen’s Day - Deacon and First Martyr

It is a special day for Deacons  I suppose. Vatican Radio has the full text at Pope: St. Stephen, model of New Evangelization

2012 Christmas Eve Homily of Pope Benedict ( Full Text )

Pope Benedict light a candle in his window before the start of Christmas Eve Mass Rocco has the full text up at "Let Us Go Joyfully to...

At Christmas Diocese of Little Rock Buries A Very Young Seminarian - Bishop Taylor's Homily ( Full Text )

I have had in my heart the Catholics and others that  knew Daniel Phillips  just 30 minutes north of me in the Diocese of Little Rock and by...

After Baby Jesus Is Gay Billboard Some New Zealand Anglicans Tired Of One Parish's Christmas Message Monopoly

2009 Oh How Can I compete with God in Bed Christmas  Billboard  OMG I am pregnant Christmas billboard And DRUMROLL Please .......... For Chr...

Church Of England Archbishop Tweets Concern Over Drastic Cuts To Military

I almost did a double take when I saw this. Good for one Church of England Archbishop in what appears to be a consistent appreciation of the...

White House 's Nightmare Headline - U.S. Justice Department vs. The Little Sisters of the Poor

The editor of Get Religion , Terry Mattingly , makes an interesting observation of a story that is in the Catholic and conservative altern...

Pro Life Implications of St Ambrose 's Commentary On The Visitation In Today's Office of Readings ( DEC 21 )

I was struck today by today's Office of Readings that had Church Father St Ambrose 's commentary on the Visitation of the Blessed Vi...

Can We and Should We Always Nationalize Problems and / or Solutions - Gun Deaths and the Internet

Two articles on the gun control caught my eye today. One is at the Corner  Gun Rights, Gun Control, and Irreconcilable Cultural Differences ...

Excellent Wall Street Journal Article On When Massachusetts Banned Papist Holiday of Christmas ( Religious Liberty )

Wriiten by the founder of the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty that is a doing a lot of good work.  See When Christmas Was Banned in Massac...

Pope Benedict's 2012 End of Year Christmas Address to the Roman Curia ( Full Text )

Here it is hot from the presses and as usual there is some things that will make some just scream  .

Louisiana Colleges Are Leaders In Worst Offender Category of Limiting Speech Rights On Campus Report Says

That is from the new  report from one of the leading First Amendment and related concerns advocacy groups for our colleges campuses. See Ne...

2012 Ends a Good Catholic Vocations Year for University of Louisiana Lafayette ( ULL )

Nice end of the year news coming out the Catholic Student Center and Campus Church of the University of Louisiana Lafayette. See 2012 Vocat...

Howard Kurtz Reminds Us Again In Gun Control Fight Why Citizens United Is Needed Counterweight to Media

This past year we have seen the media put " religious liberty " in scare quotes and frame the HHS contraception mandate as fight o...

Pope Benedict Writes A Christmas Article For the Financial Times

What a nice surprise to wake up to this Thursday morning. Vatican Radio has the full text at Pope Benedict writes article for the Financial...

House Speaker John Boehner Talks How St Thomas More Influences Him

I really hope the full text of this speech becomes available at some point.because I haveing a hard time finding it.  I would like to the re...

Tragic Day For Diocese of Little Rock and Holy Trinity Seminary in Dallas - Catholic Seminarian John "Daniel" Phillips Killed In Auto Accident

How horribily sad for his parents, friends and classmates. He was just 18. See Seminarian killed; dreamed of being 'Father Daniel' ...

Robert Bork, RIP - A Past Article Where He Talks About His Conversion to Catholicisim

I was doing Christmas shopping today and now just hearing the news that Robert Bork has passed on. Mirrors of Justice has a few links up as...

Will Movement For More Gun Control Result In Less Gun Laws In the End

I was twittering with Grant Gallicho who is an  associate editor of Commonweal magazine, about the background that led the Louisiana voters...

Justice Scalia , Gays and Penn State , and the Reductio ad Absurdum

Justice Scalia recently walked into I what it hink is a very faux controversy at Princeton recently. Instapundit recently seemed to have the...

Two Catholic Parishes In Diocese of Lake Charles Louisiana Desecrated - Priceless Statues Destroyed

With all the horrible news that we had to deal with this weekend I missed till today this sad Catholic Louisiana story. Two Catholic Churche...

Madness !! Little Sisters of the Poor Might Have To USA Over Contraception Mandate

Catholic Vote has Think the HHS Mandate Won’t Hurt Non-Catholics? Think Again . The politics of this are so infuriating. It really does not...

Church Volunteer & Former Knight of Columbus Sues Catholic Diocese of Fort Worth Over Sex Abuse Like Allegations

I think you can expect to see more and more of these lawsuits in the future especially from the Laity.Its actually my feeling that many Dioc...

Pope Benedict - Life Would Be Easier If People Did Honest Fulfillment of Their Everyday Duty ( John the Baptist Reading )

This past Sunday 's Gospel reading is always interesting to me . In St John Baptist gives some interesting advice in part: The crowds a...

How Pro Abortion Advocates Barely Kept The United Methodist Church Pro Abortion In 2012

I followed the United Methodist 2012 General Conference this year pretty closely via the social media. That was pretty easy to do because it...

Portrait Artist For Pope Does Delightful Children's Book On Benedict's Real Life Love For His Fish ( Forward by Mons. Georg Gaenswein )

I was not aware that the official portrait artist for the Pope ( shown above and who has a wonderful story herself ) had written a charming...

Director of Nation 's First Religious Liberty Law Clinic At Stanford Interviewed

See Conversations: Stanford’s Religious Liberty Clinic  . Of Catholic interested it is noted his mentor was Professor Mary Ann Glendon at Ha...

Three Cheers For Duck Dynasty and Duck Commander As They Take On Louisiana Coastal Erosion

See Duck Commander Urges Restoration of Mississippi River Delta's Imperiled Wetlands  . Top of the Hat to The Dead Pelican

Did Sister Simone Campbell , Network and Nuns On The Bus Help Make Michigan Right To Work Happen ?

While most attention to Nuns on the Bus was focused on their opposition to certain Paul Ryan budget proposals , I saw in the final days they...

Catholic Owners of Drury Hotel Chain Will Fight HHS Contraception Mandate

This is a very good story about the family behind the Drury hotel chain  and their Catholic Faith. See Drury Hotel founder says faith, famil...

New China Governement Leadership Continues Persecution of Catholics And Protestants

Vatican Insider notes it seems the same ole policy is going to be still the policy still. This should not shock people since China's We...

Catholics Come Home TV Ads Hit Canada For First Time This Christmas

They will be playing some 1700 times in  English, Cantonese and Mandarin in the Archdiocese of Vancouver . The The B.C. Catholic has the sto...

Catholics Need To Get More Invested In First Amendment Values Fight At Tufts University

Because as recent events at Vanderbilt University not only is our ox going to be likely gored it always HAS BEEN. F.I.R.E , one of the lead...

Michigan Catholic Bishops Fight Anti Sharia Laws In Last Days Of Legislative Session

I have gone to great lengths to post on  how I think many of these proposed anti sharia laws are a threat to religious liberties. The irony ...

Belgium Teenager That Battles Cancer Get Wish to Be U.S. Soldier For a Day ( Great Story )

This is just a wonderful story of a Belgium teenager that has battled cancer getting his wish to be a U.S. Solider for day via the the Make ...

Adultery and Consumation Are Not Issues That Affect Same Sex Marriage Says UK Equality Minister

This is a very interesting  comment coming   the United Kingdom's Womena and Equality Minister from remarks she said on the radio. “I ca...

As More Facts Come In Will American Media Update Viewers on the Ireland Savita " Abortion " Story

When the tragic death of  Savita Halappananvar in Ireland came into the news I decided to take a stand back approach for a while. The reason...

What Kind Of Religious Freedom Does New York Times Frank Bruni Envision ? Law Prof Responds

In the New York Times Frank Bruni talks about what he views as religious freedom. The answer is we don't have it. See The God Glut  .  ...