Monthly Archives: January 2014

A sobering excerpt: We entered that narrow, horrible corridor and whizzed through it with lightning speed. Threatening inscriptions shone eerily over all the inner gateways. The last one opened into a vast, grim courtyard with a large, un­believably forbidding entrance … Continue reading →

A little deep for me, but maybe some of my readers will have read the relevant documents he cites in this post.   But interesting, nonetheless.  An excerpt: Theologians of distinction can be listed who have taught that Canonisation is … Continue reading →

He writes:   How should a news service like CWN, dedicated to providing a Catholic perspective on current events, handle a story like this one, about a reported exorcism in Gary, Indiana? It is a complicated story, with a very confused … Continue reading →

Reminds me of something C.S. Lewis once wrote.  This is by my friend Sheila Wray Gregoire, a Canadian author and columnist: I knew he would have rather done just about anything, including going clothes shopping with a bunch of women, … Continue reading →

A most interesting article about how Protestants view the Catholic Church, with a particular focus on Calvin.  I am not indenting in quotes the post below so as not to lose the quoting with the article.   Our friend Bill … Continue reading →

On the Via Media—and the Ordinariates: But what just occurred to me this past evening is that the via media spirit continues on within many of us in the Anglican Use inside the Catholic Church! I think many of these sort of small epiphanies … Continue reading →

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From The Deacon’s Bench: Unfortunately, the article disqualifies itself, falling into the usual mistake of a superficial journalism, which in order to highlight the positive aspects of Pope Francis, thinks it should describe in a negative way the pontificate of … Continue reading →

You can read the whole thing here.  It’s not cringe-worthy.  But what I hate about it is the Benedict XVI bashing.  Wholly unfair.  I am sick of it. An excerpt:   After the disastrous papacy of Benedict, a staunch traditionalist … Continue reading →

Charles Krauthammer, one of my favorite columnists after Mark Steyn and Victor Davis Hanson, writes: The economy stagnates. Syria burns. Scandals lap at his feet. China and Russia mock him, even as a “29-year-old hacker” revealed his nation’s spy secrets … Continue reading →