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• "The Church Was the Reverse of Every Single Thing I Had Ever Thought It Was."

  

  A self-described hedonistic, man-hating feminist falls in love with Catholicism: When I announced that I was joining the Church, my friends were aghast and my... Read more

  Posted on 14 April 2014 SOCIETY

• "But, Jesus Did Have a Wife."

  

  By now, assuming you're one who keeps up with current events, you've heard about how the Jesus wife fragment is not fake: A team of scientists has concluded tha... Read more

  Posted on 14 April 2014 SOCIETY

• The War on Women the Left Ignores

  

  Weazel Zippers is credited with what the United States media won't touch: Via ErsPress (Google translation from Arabic): This young girl was employed in Palmelk... Read more

  Posted on 14 April 2014 SOCIETY

• "A Serious Moral Defect at the Heart of Elite Culture in America"

  

  Ross Douthat points to the dishonesty of the diversity movement in the New York Times: EARLIER this year, a column by a Harvard undergraduate named Sandra Y. L. Read more

  Posted on 13 April 2014 SOCIETY

• "If She Had Critiqued the Catholic Church in the Way She Has Hit Islam..."

  

  "... the faculty would have carried her to the  commencement day podium on their shoulders." Da Tech Guy: As you likely know Brandeis University has withdrawn a... Read more

  Posted on 12 April 2014 SOCIETY

• Holy Week Approaches...

  

  ... and with it, an opportunity. Tonight the wife and I went to our Church to partake of a soup supper... and then watch one of the most moving and beautiful... Read more

  Posted on 12 April 2014 SOCIETY

• “You Need a Man to Be a Man and a Woman to Be a Woman. That’s Why Relationships...

  

  Kirsten Dunst made the mistake of expressing that opinion and more and is now hated by a number of radical feminists: I'm not going to couch this much because... Read more

  Posted on 11 April 2014 SOCIETY

• Is This How the Obama Administration Reached Their Magical 7.1 Million Number?

  

  Via Lex Communis, something you can only shake your head at: In the closing days of the open enrollment period for the Affordable Care Act (ACA) , the U.S. Read more

  Posted on 10 April 2014 SOCIETY

• "A Dangerous Shift of Phraseology"

  

  I think Chris Stefanick to be an excellent ambassador for the Catholic faith.   Here he speaks eloquently to the issue of separation of church and state and... Read more

  Posted on 10 April 2014 SOCIETY

• Cosmos - A Spacetime Odyssey Represents "the Basest Kind of anti-Catholic...

  

  Fr. Barron explains how the show radically and dramatically misrepresents the truth. H/T to Padre Steve. Read more

  Posted on 09 April 2014 SOCIETY

• How Not to Confess

  

  Pat Archbold brings Catholics a life lesson: This weekend I went to confession at a parish near my son's soccer game.  I am weird that way, I seek out parishes... Read more

  Posted on 09 April 2014 SOCIETY

• "The Image of God is the Married Couple: the Man and the Woman; Not Only the Man...

  

  What I find interesting about Pope Francis' words here is the timing.   His words below were spoken in St. Peter's Square on April 2nd, one day before Mozilla... Read more

  Posted on 08 April 2014 SOCIETY

• "God Help Us. We’ve Turned the Son of God into a Purple Dinosaur Puppet."

  

  Hang with me here a sec.  I'm struggling. I don't find many Catholic bloggers I follow linking to or saying much about Matt Walsh and it's puzzling to me,... Read more

  Posted on 08 April 2014 SOCIETY

• Stressed Out? Need Relief?

  

  Michael Hidalgo is giving out advice that cries out for takers:  Anxiety often centers on us—our ability to control, our insecurity about how others will think... Read more

  Posted on 07 April 2014 SOCIETY

• "China’s Constitution Recognizes Freedom of Religion, But... "

  

  "... the government limits religious practice to officially-approved places of worship." That from this WaPo piece: Thousands of Chinese Christians have camped... Read more

  Posted on 07 April 2014 SOCIETY

• "If God Exists, How Than There Be So Much Evil in the World"

  

  This, coming our way via Padre Steve, and in the wake of the murder of Nathan Trapuzzano, is timely.  See if you Read more

  Posted on 07 April 2014 SOCIETY

• "What is Forgiveness?"

  

  You've probably never heard of Nathan Trapuzzano.  He was not a pop singer nor a hollywood actor.  He was not a professional athlete nor a politician.  He was... Read more

  Posted on 06 April 2014 SOCIETY

• “Study the Crucifix While Pondering the Words of Julian of Norwich”

  

  There are times that I really worry about what lies ahead, times that seem more frequent since finding out that I'll soon become a grandfather.  What will the... Read more

  Posted on 05 April 2014 SOCIETY

• "Yep, That’s Left-liberal Tolerance in a Nut-shell"

  

  For those not aware, Andrew Sullivan is journalist, a blogger, an editor, and an author.  He aligns himself with many leftists on hot button issues like... Read more

  Posted on 05 April 2014 SOCIETY

• "What Are They, Anyway, Philosophobes?"

  

  The Anchoress is a little pissed... maybe even more than a little: If the headline strikes some as offensive, it will nevertheless remain, because that’s the... Read more

  Posted on 04 April 2014 SOCIETY