Standing on My Head

Do you know why the commerce in the temple was so bad? Not because you shouldn't sell stuff in church. It's because the Jews had ...

I was feeling grumpy and anti-American yesterday because it was a Friday in Lent, but also because sometimes I get exhausted with the whole ...

Sorry not much blogging this week. Things at Our Lady of the Rosary parish have been very busy, and I am in Providence, RI this week to pr...

What's the favorite Bible verse of the liberal? "Judge not that ye be not judged." There are a couple of problems when peo...

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Do you like this portrayal of the Transfiguration? If not, why not? A better question: Is it Christian art? If so why. If not why not? ...

I'll be speaking at the Worcester Diocese Men's Conference on March 24. Y'all come!

So much talk amongst right wing Catholics of the erosion of religious liberty, the collapse of all things and the coming persecution. Talk o...

Read John Allen's excellent article here . He corrects three widespread misconceptions about the Catholic Church in the mainstream media...

It's Lent, so that means it is the silly season for the mainstream media. Any chance they get they'll come up with some sort of cran...

Here is the second article in my Lent series for National Catholic Register. In this series I am discussing various "ism's" t...

Watch this video of Peter Singer and Richard Dawkins discussing infanticide. Last week my homily was about the three ugly sisters of utili...

Cardinal George writes here on the direction our country is going. Among other things he comments on the prevailing tendency by Hilary Clin...

Here is what is going on politically: In this public appearance  Nancy Pelosi says the Catholic Church wants to ban contraceptives. This i...

The murder of unborn baby girls in Britain is in the news this week, and this female columnist is shocked and horrified. Yet, in the middle ...

Fasting, Almsgiving and Prayer during Lent, and today a few thoughts about fasting. Why fast? First of all, let's put to rest that ...

At the beginning of Lent you are often encouraged to "take something up" as well as "give something up". OK, but you...

I have a weekly series for Lent on Catholic Online on the Seven Deadly Sins.  Here's the first article on Greed and Envy.

Excuse me for the shocking headline, but this is what it means: this article in the Daily Telegraph reports that in the UK abortionists ar...