The Fate of Unbaptized Babies: Matthew Plese…Please Distinguish
Over at OnePeterFive, columnist Matthew Plese, who, according to his by-line, is a Third Order Dominican and an official catechist, claims as Church dogma...
Saint Patrick and His Emerald Isle
A very happy Saint Patrick’s Day, to all our readers, and we extend that to all who are of Irish lineage, or those who...
Saints Agapitus and Helena
Saint Agapitus, an early Roman martyr (+274) was from the ancient family of Palestrina, from which, 1300 years later, would derive one of the...
Forgiveness and Reconciliation, Without Repentance?
Can we forgive someone who doesn’t accept our forgiveness? Or someone who doesn’t think he needs it? There was a group of us discussing...
Popes and Martyrs, Marriage and Montanism
Today’s commemoration of saints are all connected with the persecution The first group suffered under the Stoic emperor Marcus Aurelius in the mid-2nd century,...
The Surreality of Reality
Things are surreal, and getting more so by the minute - or so it goes. In the first minute or so of his interview...
The Forty Martyrs of Sebaste
We would remiss on this March 10th if we didn’t mention the Forty Martyrs of Sebaste, a group of elite Roman legionaries –...
A Pilgrimage from Vienna to Rome
I decided to make a pilgrimage to Rome, prompted by the Jubilee year, and walking through the Holy Doors. But I couldn’t just show...
The Greeter
“Perhaps it was rather rude of me to turn my back, but upon my blessed word, I—I’d never heard such a thing in my...
It’s Church teaching that matters
A first column for a new year for a Roman Catholic magazine. Let’s ask a few basic questions about what it means to be...
