Monday, December 8, 2025

The Great Catholic Counter-Liberation 1968-2025

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Catholicism: Attacks and Counteroffensives  Among the greatest attacks upon the Church we distinguish those from the outside, those that div...
Friday, December 5, 2025

Dueling Catholicisms: John Paul/Benedict vs. Francis/Leo

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The Durbin affair was a clear disclosure of the divide within our Church. Cardinal Cupich planned to prominently honor the senator for his w...
Tuesday, December 2, 2025

Sin of Omission (2): Praying for My Enemies

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"Fredo, you're my older brother and I love you, but don't ever take sides with anyone against the family with anyone, ever, aga...
Sunday, November 30, 2025

Sin of Omission: Praying for the Souls in Purgatory

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Today being the last day of November, the month of the last things and the souls in purgatory, I publicly confess: in my Catholic adulthood ...
Friday, November 28, 2025

Fierce Women: Mary Crushing the Head of the Serpent and Maccabee's Mother of Seven Sons

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 Rightly, we honor Our Lady of Sorrow's in the Pieta, the sorrowful mysteries of the rosary, the seven sorrows prophesized by Simeon. Th...

Dialing Down the Temperature...in the Political and Theological Wars...in the Time of Trump and Leo

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Napoleon Bonaparte: "If you want to understand a man, look at what was happening in his world in his 20s." I was 20 in 1967, exact...
Wednesday, November 26, 2025

In Praise of In-Laws

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In-Laws: underrated. Underappreciated. Rarely discussed, considered, studied.  They are TERRIFIC! I know because I have a ton. Oldest of nin...