Red Urns & Flower Gardens
R ecently, like undoubtedly all of us must from time-to-time, I had the difficult experience of sharing a secular friend’s loss of his wife of forty one years, and in trying to keep all...
Monthly Archive: October 2013
A Novena Request for True Restoration
As our annual True Restoration meeting is fast approaching this coming weekend, we would like to ask of you that as we meet to plan season three and beyond, that you would please consider...
Devotions with Bishop Dolan, Episode 6: The Holy Rosary
On this episode of Devotions with Bishop Dolan, we will discuss probably the most popular devotion practiced amongst Catholics today: The Holy Rosary. Without a doubt the most well-known devotion to the Blessed Virgin...
All Francis Friday: October 18, 2013
Rorate reports on Francis’ praise of a language that supports the unity of the Church. Yay! Right? Within two hours of the publication of an article that criticizes Francis, Radio Maria Italy fired the...
News Roundup: October 17, 2013
The “s” word is being used as a possibility for the Church in Germany. Crisis summarizes Archbishop Zollitsch’s leaked working paper for “pastoral care for the divorced-remarried”. The government caved, but Thomas More Law...
News Roundup: October 16, 2013
Abridge too far? Comparing two editions of Les Miserables, Stephen Fitzpatrick discusses what is lost when editors omit what is “in their estimation, long, boring, and arduous;” “Fr.” Dwight Longenecker reviews Rod Dreher’s...
Volunteers
One of the things we’ve been noticing in our Season 2 report card (which, if you haven’t filled out yet, you need to do so here) is a trend for some to report that...
News Roundup: October 15, 2013
Was Mars Robert’s surrender to a slovenly Grant the beginning of the “jeans at church” revolution? Putting manners in a Christian and historical context, The Imaginative Conservative presents “A Requiem for Manners”. “Fr.” Alexander...
News Roundup: October 14, 2013
Common Core standards are being adopted in many Catholic schools and could even impact homeschoolers, according to this Crisis Magazine article by Anne Hendershott. Coming out day at Catholic colleges? The College Fix reports...
All Francis Friday: October 11, 2013
John Allen at National Catholic Reporter twists the prodigal son parable, making Catholics who don’t like what Francis is doing look bad by comparing them to the elder son. So in John Allen’s story,...
