Sometimes it is tough to be a both/and Catholic in an either/or world.

Progressives love to drive wedges and their media cohorts love to hit upon them with a sledge hammer.  Language is their chosen soft spot. This has never been more apparent than since the election of Pope Francis just over a week ago.

For two or more generations progressives, both inside and outside of the Church, have hijacked the Church's Social justice teachings to promote things ancillary or even opposed to the Church's teaching.   Pope John Paul II said Catholic social teaching "rests on the threefold cornerstones of human dignity, solidarity and subsidiarity."  Yet, progressives have successfully removed many...READ MORE

I think I miss the days when we lied to ourselves. There was something innocent about all the self-delusion that surrounded the abortion issue. All that “blob of tissue” talk was believed by so many who preferred not to know otherwise.

Faced with ignorance about what was actually going on in the womb, pro-lifers like me thought that if we could just prove that it’s not just a blob of tissue in the womb then we’d win the day. And that’s been our goal for at least the past decade. We’ve talked about fingernails. We’ve talked about heartbeats. We’ve bought ultrasound machines for crisis pregnancy centers. We’ve shown pictures of babies reaching out of the womb and grabbing doctors fingers....READ MORE

After the election of Pope Francis, some of the choices of the Pope have made liturgy a hot topic. So much so, the world renowned expert on liturgy, Cardinal Mahony, as seen at the Los Angeles Religious Education Congresses, has weighed in on the topic on Twitter.

I responded with some thoughts of my own.

I wish I could give a cogent and well thought out treatise on the election of Pope Francis I, hereby and forever dubbed PF1 ( You heard it here first.) But I can't, just as nobody else can. So instead of well-thought out, I give impressions, worries, and even a few thoughts.

First thought. Pope seems like a simple and humble man. I wish I was more like him.

In a time that seems to call for a fair amount of skull-cap cracking, his resume does not jump to the top of the pile. But by no means does that mean he is not up to the task. Bruce Willis didn't send any Euro-weenie bad guys to their well deserved demise until they put him in a spot where he had no choice.

Fr. Longenecker...READ MORE

Some "Catholic" LGBT organizations were seemingly in a race to cast the first disparaging remark against the new Pope. The Equally Blessed coalition seemingly won the day by labeling the Pope "hateful" within hours of Cardinal Bergoglio's ascendancy to the papacy.

Equally Blessed is an organization which includes participation from DignityUSA, New Ways Ministry, Call To Action, and Fortunate Families. Pro-homosexual organizations all. Their statement which was quoted in many news reports seems to indicate their shock that Pope Francis would be pro-traditional marriage and not in favor of gay adoption:

"If he truly desires to share the Gospel with all people, Pope Francis will come...READ MORE

Consistency being the hobgoblin of small minds, Piers Morgan's giant brain must be hobgoblin free.

Life must be so much easier when you don't let little things like logic and consistency get in your way. Last week, the polished boor that is Piers Morgan made news by getting schooled on the logic and tenets of his supposed faith by an atheist.

While Piers Morgan railed against the teaching of the Catholic Church demanding that the Pope immediately stop teaching things contrary to predilections of Piers, Penn Jillette defended the Church's right to teach what it teaches. You don't have to believe it, you don't have to be a Catholic, but you don't have a right to tell the Church what it...READ MORE

I read a lot, dozens of news articles every day. I'm used to being in the know. I think many of us are like that now. Let's face it, we've become so used to having information at our fingertips (literally) that I think we don't react very well the unknown. We've lost the ability to say, "God only knows."

So absent facts, we send for the prognosticators and "experts" to fill the void. This past week we've all seen, read, and heard from the guessing class about who the next Pope will be. "Papabile" is a word that's entered common usage on Catholic sites in the past two weeks. But the unbearable truth is that nobody knows anything.

So we read and watch things hoping to confirm our hopes....READ MORE

Kristen Chenoweth has been known for her supposed 'Christianity' in Hollywood. But now she has decided that being 'Christian' is no longer enough. Kristen Chenoweth has decided she is Pope.

The actress, who recently starred in a show called Good Christian B**ches (which lasted a shorter time than Manimal due to its Piers Morgan-like ratings), has bestowed upon herself the power to decide what is 'Christian' and what is not. Of course, she uses her new found power to promote 'gay marriage' and bash, you know, actual Christians.

In an interview with the Gay Star News [source]

As a big ally of the LGBT community, how do you feel about the marriage equality fights in the US and across...READ MORE