Catholics like babies. No, scratch that – Catholics love babies. It’s not that Catholics love babies more than other religious denominations, it’s that they like having as many babies as possible in accordance to the number that God is willing to bestow upon the family. Though the US average of babies per [...]
It’s all over the news tonight, Hillary Clinton was wearing one of those Brazilian Mary bracelets at a campaign stop in Pennsylvania. Everyone is all in uproar - Was it a campaign ploy? Does she actually have some real faith in Christianity? Did an operative of Mother Teresa put it on her wrist without her [...]
Nothing apart from Mass gives Catholics more comfort and causes more spontaneous combustion among Protestants than the Rosary.
While the number of televisions per person in the United States almost boggles the mind, that statistic doesn’t hold a nine day novena candle to the number of Rosaries per Catholic in the US. If you include all [...]
The current process for declaring someone a saint was established by Pope John Paul II in 1983 in the document Divinus Perfectionis Magister. This document continued a process of simplification started by Pope Paul VI during Vatican II.
So how do you get to be a saint?
First, you have to be dead at least for five [...]
You’ve heard it. You’ve probably done it. If you haven’t, your children have innocently followed the herd and started applauding during / after Mass. It’s embarrassing to admit that you hate it, especially when your discomfort at clapping gets you labeled as “anti-community”, “choir hater”, or worse, “not nice”.
If you aren’t Catholic and happen to [...]
When someone says “home of the whore of Babylon” Catholics get warm fuzzies. But what else would you expect from those who acknowledge Rome as the capital of their religion? In all honesty, Rome really gets a bad rap from Protestants. Where else can you trip over thousands of years worth of history, get robbed [...]
