Are Catholics masochists who turn every landscape into a dystopian city of suffering? What do you think? In his homily this morning, Father ...

What a week this is from Palm Sunday to Holy Thursday to Good Friday to Easter Sunday. We experience a range of emotions from the incredible...

You've probably noticed that the world is in a mess! Francis didn't need to call on Catholics to "make a mess;" the mess a...

We all know the saying, "When life gives you lemons make lemonade." Well...two students at Notre Dame decided that three feet of s...

After the Mass, there is no greater devotion than the holy rosary. If you aren't praying it every day, you are depriving yourself of one...

I came across the phrase "wickedness in the high places" this morning while I was reading the meditation for the day in Benedictus...

One of my favorite spiritual masters is St. Alphonsus Liguori. What a body of wisdom he left us. Today I want to share his thoughts about ou...

Today is the Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross. My plan was to spend the day re-reading Louis de Wohl's wonderful historical nov...

Pirate in priest's clothing. Today at our SSPX chapel in Linden, VA we celebrated the Feast of St. Pius X from September 3rd in the trad...

Vatican Officially Recognizes LGBT+ Pilgrimages for Jubilee Year Not again! More hopes dashed to the ground. One hoped when Robert Prevost  ...

Regular readers know that I like the Epoch Times -- a lot! The June 17-24 issue had a great article on The Steep Price of Declining Civility...

Mary Magdalene embracing the cross. Regular readers of the blog know how much I like the Benedictus prayer companion . I usually do the dail...

When our children were young we had a car with no radio. So we entertained the kids by telling stories. Larry told fairy tales and I told Bi...

One of my sisters (I have five) has sourdough mania. (That's actually the name of a book.) She came for a visit and brought us a loaf of...

Some Catholics erroneously believe that the Holy Ghost chooses the pope. If that were true, one would have to wonder how competent He is in ...

Remember the old Disney cartoons showing Pluto with an angel whispering in one ear and a devil in the other. That's not too far off. Our...

We are under a wind advisory with a tornado watch. Our situation down in a little dip makes the likelihood of a tornado touchdown at Camp Kr...

At Mass this morning I was thinking about 1 Corinthians 13. One of St. Paul's admonitions about love emphasizes that it doesn't keep...

Philosopher Peter Kreeft, a man on a mission -- to teach the truth! I'm always a little puzzled by those who say they never read fiction...

Every Sunday is a little Christmas and a little Easter. How will we keep it holy? Do you remember the description of Scrooge at the end of A...