Collecting My Thoughts

Archbishop Cordileone did what he's supposed to do--called out Nancy Pelosi for being a hypocrite and a bad Catholic--he has every right...

Divini Redemptoris , On Atheistic Communism Pope Pius XI – 1937 https://www.papalencyclicals.net/pius11/p11divin.htm The Catholic Church...

Have you noticed that when job numbers are up and unemployment figures down, the media begin to roar about keeping businesses and schools cl...

It was such a pleasant change to be able to attend church services here at Lakeside two weeks ago. Even in a park, even with social distanc...

I've been following Charles Craigmile's  summer lectures for 5 or 6 years. This summer's program will address many of the issue...

This isn't exactly a Memorial Day tale, but. . . I was talking to a Vietnam vet today about church. He’d never heard of Lakeside, Ohio, ...

JAMA publishes little research blurbs either too short or too weak for prime time in the back of the journal as "Research Letters....

A big nothingburger. “The summit’s very title (“The Protection of Minors in the Church”) and agenda limited the focus to the sexual abuse ...

“The annual Fall Meeting of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), which took place in Baltimore earlier this week, was a...

Did you ever wonder why the Crawley family of the fictional Downton Abbey TV series lived in an abbey?  “There are many old country houses i...

Full Question I am Catholic. A Protestant told me that the people are the church, but I’m pretty sure that is not true. Can you help me...

Justice Alito warns Catholics and other Christians about the coming storm. Speaking to a group of Catholic lawyers and judges who promote ch...

  I get about four offers a day to review a book the marketer will send me. For all I know these marketers are all the same person, just u...

“Too many of the pastors—too many, practically all—in Germany refused to speak against national socialism,” continued Orsi. “And...

 “What is happening in Germany [in sexualization programs in state schools], and in many other EU countries, goes way beyond what we hav...

For the life of me, I don't understand why the "I'm Catholic but" people don't leave the Roman Catholic church and ...

 It seems I've read every imaginable explanation--and no one is happy with this document.  Could Pope Francis have been more vague and ...