Here’s a strange one. A priest of the Byzantine Catholic Rite has been suspended after a parishioner found him advertising for sex on a gay bulletion board. And it wasn’t just one ad; it was several. With pictures. How did this... [Continue Reading]
A new book says half of all priests who leave the priesthood do so because they can’t live celibacy. About 40 percent leave because of disillusionment with their fellow priests or bishops. The rest fall into a miscellaneous category. What does... [Continue Reading]
A law has been proposed in Maryland that would not allow a priest to keep the seal of the confessional. Cardinal McCarrick of Washington has said, if it passes, he will instruct his priests serving in Maryland to ignore it. Keeping children safe is... [Continue Reading]
I’ve been watching local media coverage of the nightclub disaster in Rhode Island. RI being as small as it is is like a suburb of Massachusetts, so anything that happens there is like something happening in the neighborhood. I’ve watched... [Continue Reading]
I had no idea the impact that my little Lord of the Rings parody of anti-war protests would have. In the past 24 hours, I have thousands of hits on my poor web server. (For those who don’t know, this site runs on my old G4 Mac over my cable... [Continue Reading]
Fr. Rob Johansen has been silenced by his bishop once again. Since the only thing he has written since coming back from his last sojourn into “the gulag” was his impressions of Latin in the Mass and the opposition to it by a certain... [Continue Reading]
The next issue of our magazine Catholic World Report will contain a detailed look at the Vatican’s statements concerning possible war in Iraq. Part of the article contains this look at “Just-War Concerns”: JUST-WAR CONCERNS A... [Continue Reading]
A fire in a nightclub in Rhode Island has killed at least 60 people, but they expect the death toll to rise. Earlier this week was the deadly stampede in a Chicago nightclub. Of course, I’m always reading in the Boston papers about riots and... [Continue Reading]
MINAS TIRITH (Gondor News Network) - Thousands of peace activists took to the streets of Minas Tirith and other cities of Middle Earth today to protest what they termed a rush to war with Mordor. “We need more time for diplomacy,” said a... [Continue Reading]
The news anchor the Boston talk radio station WRKO announced the top headline as “Four new arrests in the Bush administration’s war on terror.” It’s not Bush’s war on terror, it’s America’s war on terror. It... [Continue Reading]