Happy St. Patrick’s Day! Here’s a snippet from an email I got from Catholic Culture yesterday: Perhaps we can do better on Wednesday than mustering another secular drinking bout in honor of Saint Patrick. The restoration of Catholic culture demands that we celebrate feast days with keen attention to the virtues of the saint in… Continue reading The Real St. Patrick
Tag: apologetics
St. Colman’s Cathedral, Cobh, Co. Cork, Ireland
Before we departed on the Ireland trip, I looked up “Top Ten Irish Churches,” which is like trying to choose the top ten Trekkies at a Star Trek convention– there’s a ton of them, and each one is way ahead of the curve compared to everybody else. Even the tiny towns we passed tended to… Continue reading St. Colman’s Cathedral, Cobh, Co. Cork, Ireland
One Hundred US Anglican Parishes to Enter the Catholic Church
Wow. I missed a major development right before my trip – Telegraph: 100 US Anglican parishes to enter the Catholic Church (h/t Principium Unitatis). From the Telegraph article: The Anglican Church in America (ACA) will now enter the Catholic Church as a block, bringing in thousands of converts along with their own bishops, buildings and… Continue reading One Hundred US Anglican Parishes to Enter the Catholic Church
Today: A Day of Prayer and Fasting
Bishop Loverde, my bishop, has declared today a day of prayer and fasting for the sanctity of life, using his power under Canon 1244, paragraph 2.* He’s specifically concerned that the Democrats in Congress seem hell-bent on passing sweeping healthcare reform which puts the federal government in the role of paying for women to have… Continue reading Today: A Day of Prayer and Fasting
The Contender
Robert De Niro’s Al Capone, in the movie The Untouchables, says of his battles with the tough new Treasury Department team that’s investigating him, “One more thing, you have an all out prize fight, you wait until the fight is over, one guy is left standing. And that’s how you know who won.” He’s right.… Continue reading The Contender
Video for Abp. Chaput’s Talk
The first 8 minutes are basically just intro, and then it’s this speech, which I mentioned Tuesday. Be sure to check out the Q&A afterwards!
Did Vatican II Change the Church’s Understanding of Church?
This morning, I mentioned Dr. Jeff Mirus’ excellent series on Vatican II. His premise is the same as our current pope’s: that Vatican II renewed and reformed, but didn’t reverse, the Church. That is, it’s the same Church before and after. So when you get folks like Cardinal Mahoney saying doltish things like “The Tridentine… Continue reading Did Vatican II Change the Church’s Understanding of Church?
A Great Series on Vatican II
Dr. Jeff Mirus at Catholic Culture has an excellent series of short commentaries on Vatican II going. So far, it includes: A funny thing about Vatican II . . . The English Editions of the Documents of Vatican II Vatican II on the Liturgy: Introduction Vatican II on the Liturgy: Overview & General Norms Vatican… Continue reading A Great Series on Vatican II
Abp. Chaput on “Christianity in American Political Life “
Abp. Chaput went to Houston Baptist University and gave a speech which just blew me away. His target is the notion that religion is a private thing, inappropriate for the public square (whether that be the realm of politics, the workplace, or generally outside the home, etc.). Here’s the “end of the beginning” of the… Continue reading Abp. Chaput on “Christianity in American Political Life “
Bethlehem, House of Eucharist
So this is pretty cool. The old Hebrew name for Bethlehem, bêth lehem, means “House of Bread.” The Arabic form of the same name, bêt lahm, means “House of Meat.” So Jesus chose to be born in a city suggesting that He was both Bread and Meat. “… and the Bread that I will give… Continue reading Bethlehem, House of Eucharist