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Been surfing the many blogs out there and man… it’s a jungle out there! Found the banal where some 20-something nobody just whines about how nothing happened today… And you expect me to read your blog when that’s the gist of most of your posts? Found the politically whacked out left-wingers though not so many…

The Deacon and I discussed this last week on the way back from the Abbey at Gethsemani… He made the leap a while back and I am just now coming to this position. I am no longer for the death penalty in the United States. For those that know me well, this is a major…

Catholic World News reports that the Cardinal has sent a private letter to all US Bishops saying that… Catholics who are “living in grave sin” or who “reject the doctrine of the Church,” should abstain from the Eucharist. Scanning the article I couldn’t find anything that specifically said Cardinal Ratzinger told them to deny Communion…

OK, everyone… I expect all of you to be glued to your television sets tonight at 9pm Eastern. That’s tipoff time for Game 5 of the NBA Finals. The smell of blood is in the air. The Lakers are ripe for picking… Personally, I expect the deathblow tonight to be delivered methodically, deliberately and overwhelmingly.…

A while back I was discussing some of Thomas Merton’s writings and felt the urge to write a bit on it. Unfortunately I don’t have the excerpt where he was speaking of what his innermost spirit was saying to him that I was working off of at this time but I think what I wrote…

This Sunday the 13th of June is the Feast of the Body and Blood of Christ, in the Latin so many of us grew up hearing, Corpus Christi Sunday. This was a Holy Day like so many other Holy Days, and yet for some reason, it seemed to me to be the Greatest of them…

Alicia, one of our regular commenters (or our only regular commenter), suggested a catechism by Cardinal Gasparri. It seems to be about 40-60 years old depending on the version you find. I did a search at abebooks.com and found a bunch of titles for Gasparri. The book is called Catholic Catechism and seems to run…

Went ahead and bought my copies for me and the girls today off of Barnes and Noble’s website. The three books are for 1-2 grades and First Communion, 3-5 grades and 6-8 grades and Confirmation. Since my girls are spaced just perfectly, I only needed to order 2 copies of the ones I don’t have…

Guvnur wrote about this a few days ago, but I wanted to add my two cents worth to the discussion… As a convert, and of the worst kind… zealous, I am always studying the faith. I have a pretty decent library of apologetics and theology books on my shelf for only being in the Church…

How else do you put the sighting of Scott Hahn’s books, First Comes Love, Hail Holy Queen, The Lamb’s Supper, Lord Have Mercy and Swear to God at Sam’s Club? That’s right, the secular, nothing but pop-Protestant book carrier has actually stooped to putting the books of one of the best Catholic authors on their…