School Mass at Atonement Academy Last month I paid a visit to the parish of Our Lady of the Atonement in San Antonio TX. Wow! The kids at Atonement Academy all take music lessons every day and you should hear them sing! They all belong to a choir and at Mass the singing is [...]
With Br Augustine in Norcia I was blessed last summer to visit Norcia--the birthplace of St Benedict-- with my friend Sid Tate. We had gone to Italy on pilgrimage to venerate the Holy Shroud of Turin, and too the opportunity to visit Norcia and spend a short time with my former student Philip Wilmeth--now Brother Augustine--one [...]
Whoever is elected president, I predict that America will enter into four years of turmoil. The passions stirred up in this election have revealed an America more divided than ever before, and the divisions are bound to get worse. Racial divisions are at boiling point. Class divisions are brewing. Educational disparities are obvious. Ethnic suspicions are [...]
You'll be glad to hear that I'm not running for President, but here are my twelve ideas for making America great again. Give bigger tax breaks for charitable giving - Rather than taxing rich people to death, give them bigger tax breaks for charitable giving. Regulate charities more - Make sure charities really do charitable work and are not [...]
This article in the Boston Globe (of all places!) gives you the run down on Hiliary Clinton's anti Catholic stance. What I like about it is the comparison to Henry VIII AFTER KING HENRY VIII broke ties with the Catholic Church because of a dispute over marriage, Catholics were treated very badly. Bishops were locked up. Monasteries [...]
Interior New Church of Our Lady of the Rosary Greenville One of the most common misconceptions about traditional church architecture is that it has to be expensive. Sure, if you go with a prima donna architect with an international reputation you're going to pay over the odds. Our little parish in the poor part [...]
Part of this week's leaked email release features an exchange from Clinton team members about "conservative Catholicism". This article from Catholic News Agency reports on the comments. What is frightening about these ideologues is that their ignorance is always combined with arrogance. They clearly know very little about Catholicism, but they deride it and despise it [...]
A friend recently voiced their doubts and fears about a Hillary Clinton presidency and it made me think. In a few weeks' time Americans will go to the polls. Over the last year I have posted harsh words about Donald Trump, and people have got on my case for it. "Oh Father, why are you being [...]
It is natural during a Presidential election year for the people who are pro-life to get pretty passionate against the candidate and party who are actively pro-abortion. We are also apt to get passionate in favor of the candidate or party who pledges to be anti abortion. That's all well and good, and we definitely need [...]
If Hillary Clinton is elected President I will continue to fight against abortion by supporting our local charity that helps women in crisis pregnancies, by teaching the kids in my parish school about the evils of abortion, by marching for life, by preaching on the dignity of each human person from the pulpit, by working at [...]