A Priest with the George Washington University Catholic Campus Ministry has got some grief by some students for well being in Catholic in b...
As well as to “Al Qaeda” and “Hamas” !!! Creative Minority Report has Breaking: DoD Lumps Catholics in with Al Qaeda and KKK as Exanples of...
The denial of student organization status to the John Hopkins pro life group Voice For Life ( VFL ) by the Student Government Association is...
I did not do a lot of Catholic convert stories like I have done past years. I think the Pope Francis news largely competed for space with th...
FOCUS( Fellowship of Catholics University Students ) had a trip down to Florida for Spring Break. Amanda M Teixeira a FOCUS missionary ha...
John Allen , who is on the ground there, has a short post on his observations .
The financial generosity of Tom Benson and his wife that own the New Orleans Saints Football team and the New Orleans Hornets ( note they ch...
I was pretty astonished when I read the editorial stand of the John Hopkins student newspaper on the denial of student organization status f...
I and a few other folks in the Catholic ghetto of blogs have commented on this face palm of journalistic piece the last week that was in Sal...
According to the Vatican he is . I thought that was interesting. I think if I was Pope that would be one of the first areas I would like to ...
This is a wonderful ancient Holy Saturday Homily that is still read in the Liturgy of the Hours on this date. Something strange is happening...
Not much I have to think even after reading My Steubenville - It was a base for the teen evangelical movement, where I saw fundamentalis...
Two articles that answer in the affirmative that for profit business can practice religion and thus have standing in court as to exercise th...
As soon as I find a good photo gallery of the Mass I will try to update this entry with that link. In the mean time here i s the full text ...
Piers Morgan caused a lot of controversy in his treatment of Ryan Anderson on a show dealing with Same Sex Marriage. It was duly noted by a ...
That is what Our Sunday Visitor looks at in this article New Big East conference has distinctive Catholic feel
This is a wonderful New Orleans Good Friday Tradition that is talked about here. See Share in His Journey: 9 Churches Walk
Its kinda of interesting how the science has gone as to this in my lifetime. From some studies saying it was from a much later time period t...
The text and nice art work is here .
Get Religion takes on a face palm of an article from the Huff Post. See I nvincible ignorance on the Anglican Ordinariate
The Pardon A very important movie filmed is coming out this week . That is The Pardon. There a lot of themes in this movie. First of co...
I got very early to see Pope Francis speak to the Diplomatic Corp this morning since it was a key address. Vatican Radio got a the English ...
Related-The 2012 Video that gave support to parents and parents that have learned they will have a down's kids was one of the best I h...
One reason Cardinal Ratzinger was a popular choice for Pope was that many of his writings were read on an international basis and in differe...
Robert Royal has an interesting observation of what we have heard in the first Papal speeches and homilies. See the The Devil and Pope Franc...
In a case that has got quite a bit of national attention the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld the trial court's determinati...
I still am getting chuckle out this today .See Texan-Latin at the U.S. Supreme Court
One of the big issues with the HHS Contraception mandate cases that will have to be resolved is does business and in particular profit makin...
Its the Feast of St Joseph which is a rather big day in the Catholic Church. See the special Litany of St. Joseph here . It is also a rath...
Think I am going to use this pic for my new blog header pic Lot of links and a photo gallery Via the The Big Puplit .
This is the Susanna story found in Daniel. Msgr Pope has a great post on this today The Anatomy of a Sin as set forth in a lesser known Bibl...
Regardless of the American administration or the current occupant of the Chair of St Peter one area of major cooperation between the USA an...
Today was the big day !!! Rocco Palmo has the homily from his inauguration of my Petrine ministry Mass .
A Evangelical at Houston Baptist University wrote a nice article a few years ago called The Threefold Witness of the Church - The Catholic ...
Robert John Araujo, SJ has some experience this affairs has a response to a New York Times editorial. See The Grey Lady’s “Unholy Alliance”
This is a pretty good letter and pretty darn good writing. See Cdl. Bergoglio's Lenten Letter, 2013 When Ratzinger was elected those t...
That was pretty quick. Good timing I guess .
Brothers and sisters, good evening! You know that it was the duty of the Conclave to give Rome a Bishop. It seems that my brother Cardinals...
At the top of my pet peeves list is how people to easily throw out the word hypocrite. In a Christian context it seems in most cases the wor...
In Louisiana if one has a "truck stop" that meets certain requirements one can have whole rooms of video poker machines. When vide...
Doug Mainwaring ,co-founder of the National Capital Tea Party Patriots, has a interesting and very personal post up at I'm Gay and I O...
A very good post at First Thoughts. See Castel Gandolfo: Home of Popes, Refuge for Jews
The HHS Contraception mandate cases are going through the court system with the predictable mix of losses and wins in the various circuits. ...
See A few “bloopers”
Rod Dreher lends voice to that today at WaPo: Mississippi Is Always Burning . Related is this Get Religion piece Can the press cover traditi...
He makes that very clear here in an interview about his new book Garry Wills on Priests, Popes, Secrecy, and the Internet . That also means...
Excellent thoughts by Father Longenecker today . See his post Contraception and Celibacy which I have to say I have little to disagree with....
The Baptist Press has the Faith angle to a story that has got media exposure worldwide. See Doctor in baby's HIV cure is rooted in fai...
In the midst of all the conclave talk one academic study from Canada has slightly gone under the radar. That is a study attacking the Saint...
The mind boggles a the amount of amendments this things needs. See Minnesota Bill to Ban K-12 Speech That Denies Fellow Students a “Support...
I have really noted how the Italians press is giving some Americans Cardinals a more serious look as the Pope "Sweepstakes " conti...
Catholic schools as well as other might really want to look at this data .
Father Robert John Araujo, SJ talks about what pundits mean when they talk reform of the CHurch and what they are leaving out at Reform—leg...
This is rather big and interesting news. From the Salt Lake Newspaper see New Mormon scriptures tweak race, polygamy references -Scholars l...
This is awesome. T he Dallas newspaper has the story here .
Here are the four Sede Vacante stamps released by the Vatican today. They become very valuable if they are postmarked on the first day the ...
Father Z does a splendid job of fleshing out the meaning of Pope Benedict's last official remarks as Pontiff this morning . See Benedict...
I know there was a book called What's the matter with Kansas but when I hear things like this my viewpoint is NOT MUCH :) . ..... And...
I received the Catholic Connection in the mail today which is the official monthly publication for my Diocese of Shreveport in Louisiana. A...
A day with dramatic images that started in USA time early in the morning and continued to just minutes ago as the final ceremony marked an e...
See Bill Seeks to Protect Religious Groups from the Texas Tribune .
Seems like a lot of folks were up very early to watch the Pope give his last Wednesday audience and what it appears is his last public spea...
Quite a big controversy over at the Washington Post where a unnamed reporter involved in an exchange with a reader was quite blunt with wha...
The St John legal forum for law and religion has a link and some words reminding us how important this event was in history .
. First Thoughts has a piece on this today. . This is not the only controversy over the management of Louisiana College we have seen but it...
In our " national conversation on guns " there has been some talk on mandatory gun insurance for gun owners. In fact there has bee...
