Monthly Archives: February 2011

Just Call Me A Sacramental Fool

One of the things that I love about being Catholic is our sacramentals. I have been meaning to write a post on sacramentals. But now I don’t have to. Pat Gohn is positively Sentimental about Sacramentals: “Despite their name, sacramentals … Continue reading

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Are You Humble Yet?

Last Sunday we heard the Beatitudes. “Blessed are the poor in Spirit.”  The Gospel call us to voluntary humility or poverty of heart. Deacon Greg has a post up from the writings of  Bl. Josemaria Escriva. Uh Oh. I think … Continue reading

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New iPhone App to Help in Confession

I wants it, I needs it. Oh dear. I like tech toys way to much. But Catholic News Service reports that  iPhone has a cool app–that is Church approved–to help. The iTunes site has this description: Designed to be used … Continue reading

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Popes Angels Demons

Popes and Angels. There is a new book out by an Italian Priest, Fr. Marcello Stanzione, The Popes and Angels. Fr. has written several books on Angels in an attempt to promote devotion to them. The Church teaches that we … Continue reading

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Saints of the Day: St. Blaise and St. Ansgar

From Catholic Culture: “St. Blaise enjoyed widespread veneration in the Eastern and Western   Churches due to many cures attributed to him. According to tradition, he was Bishop of Sebaste in Armenia and was martyred under Licinius. On this day the … Continue reading

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How to Protest Dissent in the Church

Don’t. Be Joyful! Mark Shea, in an article for the National Catholic Register, has some sage advice for an orthodox Catholic graduate student in a less than faithful Pastoral Ministry program in a, sigh, Catholic University. “The trick will be … Continue reading

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Abortion: Evil has a Face

While it is true that we can never make a judgment that a person is evil, it is  also true that evil acts are perpetrated by actual human beings.  I just don’t know a person’s heart or state of mind. … Continue reading

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