Tuesday, March 20, 2012

"My prayers have been answered! Darn it." and other Catholic blog posts


Simcha Fisher



Catholic trivia: Which bishop can you find in the apostolic lineage of more than 5000 of bishops alive today, including the pope?

Want to improve your knowledge of Church history? Here's a list of great books to get you started...
Pat McNamara

As a Church historian, I'm often asked, "What's a good book to start with?" It's a tough question. There are few books on the subject geared toward a popular audience. General histories of the Catholic Church can be useful, but sometimes they pack so much information that your head spins.

Msgr. Charles Pope
The secular world, having sown in the wind, now reaps the whirlwind. If something as outlandish as two men together can be called “marriage,” who is to say that any other part of the definition cannot be tampered with? Why should marriage be between only two? Here come the polygamists. And apparently too...


Cardinal Dolan and the new evangelization...
George Weigel

The irrepressibly effervescent personality of Cardinal Timothy Dolan may tempt some to think of the archbishop of New York and president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops as the latest in a line of glad-handing Irish-American prelates, long on blarney and short on depth. Succumbing to that temptation would be a very serious mistake.

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