I returned from a business trip a week ago.  As I was unpacking my suitcase, I pulled out a pair of pants.  I had some change in the pockets and it spilled out on to the floor.  The signature clink and clank of pocket change hitting a hard surface echoed throughout my house.

Suddenly I was surrounded by little urchins pouncing upon the loose booty as if this bit of pocket change is all that stood between them and death by starvation.  Greedy little hands plucked up the pennies, nickels, and dimes.  But the quarters, the quarters were worth fighting for.  Two of my kids tried to grab the same quarter at the same time and it started a mini-brawl.  I pulled them apart only to have the...READ MORE

Cognitive dissonance is defined as the discomfort one feels when holding to two mutually exclusive thoughts.  It is natural to feel such discomfort since one of the thoughts must obviously be false.

However, when one holds two mutually exclusive thoughts by remaining untroubled and comfortably numb even in the face of such conflict, we call that the media.

Generally, the media holds its own hands to its ears yelling "La! La! La! La! La!" so that they do not have to face or cover any story that reveals the true horrors of elective abortion.  So much so that when elective abortions make the horror manifest, such as in the Gosnell case, the media can barely muster a mention even in the...READ MORE

See that headline? It is the disingenuous creation of self-important anti-Catholic protestors.

Joseph Amodeo writes at the Huffington Post about the "raw emotions" of being "denied a seat at Christ's table" and how as a result he feels "disowned, abandoned, and lost. "

Oh the melodrama of it all.

See, Joey and nine of his pals protested at St. Patrick's Cathedral in favor of gay rights. There protest signs were their dirty hands. This junior high tactic was in response to Cardinal Dolan's column last week in which he said that LGBT people were welcome in the church so long as they washed their hands. In otherwords, everybody who wants to be there for the right and respectful reasons...READ MORE

It is always darkest before the dawn.

50 years on from the birth of a lie known as the 'spirit' of Vatican II, I believe we are nearing the end of the era of dissidence.  That said, I think we are about to go through the worst of it.

Many priests, religious, and lay people who entered the life of the Church in an era in which they believed they could radically change the world by radically changing the Church.  They falsely believed that by changing the Church to be more like the world, the world would be more like the Church.  We still live with the fruits of their early success.  The Church experienced mass flight, followed by decades of scandal, followed by more Church flight. 

Congratulations graduates on your achievement. You managed to finish four years of expensive babysitting, ostensibly designed to prepare you for life, even though it bears absolutely no resemblance to it. Well, except for the fact that most of you have racked up inordinate amounts of debt with very little of value to show for it. That part resembles life quite well, actually.

These speeches are called commencement addresses for a reason, they are supposed to be about the beginning of things. You have completed one thing and now you begin another, real life.

Every commencement, by statute, must talk about this moment as the beginning of an incredible journey, and it is, a journey. So...READ MORE

There are so many people whose behavior need to be called out for their open defiance of Catholic teaching. Pro-abortion Catholics, pro gay-marriage politicians, and the like are just a few that come to mind.

So the Archbishop of Westminster has delivered a homily decrying people he sees as profoundly un-Catholic and he uses the Pope to single these bad Catholics out.

To Archbishop Vincent Nichols, these people are the very people that are destroying unity in the Church. The Archbishop finds these people so repulsive that "they should have no place in the Church."

Wow. Those are some pretty strong words especially from an Archbishop. What group transgressed to such a degree to merit...READ MORE

I have been a Catholic blogger for many years now. The one thing you do as a Catholic blogger is read a lot of Catholic blogs. Over that time, I have come to realize that there a certain offenses deadly to a Catholic blogger. Some are deadly to your blog, some are deadly to your readers, and some are deadly to your soul. I have committed some these offenses myself, but you will never get me to admit which ones.

Autoplay music!! -- Don't do it!!! I don't care if it is Mozart or Monks from the most remote monastery in the world. I don't care if you managed to get angels singing recorded on your Iphone. Don't do it. There is nothing more annoying, especially at work, when music begins to...READ MORE

The President of a Catholic High School in New York doesn't want you to be confused. His urgent plea is that, whatever you do, please don't confuse his obsequious and duplicitous acceptance of out-and-proud homosexuality as an endorsement of out-and-proud homosexuality. And he uses Pope Francis as cover.

Father Edward Salmon, president of McQuaid Jesuit High School in Brighton N.Y., said that a homosexual couple will be allowed to attend the junior prom. He said that the homosexual couple "will be welcomed.” Remember, these are confused and troubled 16 or 17 year old kids. That is sickening enough, but it actually gets much worse.

The duplicitous Fr. Salmon kicks incredulity in the...READ MORE