I feel sorry for bishops (and would not want to be one – ever.) On a day-to-day basis your own bishop will make decisions that somebody in ...

T his post is being written specifically for those who think they do not need to read it. It concerns a certain body of knowledge that many ...

I for one am glad that CDs and Ipods etc. have taken over from records for personal music entertainment. There are songs that to this day w...

FINDING TRUTH WHEREVER IT MAY BE FOUND - " I f God gave virtue immediate recompense we should straightaway find ourselves engaging in ...

A young man came into my office on Thursday night. He is seriously entertaining the notion of entering into the seminary in a bout a year o...

I really like these guys. They are different. I hope you enjoy it too. IN OTHER NEWS : J ay annouces a great new deal on Catholic Carnival ...

O n special occasions bells may be manually played to add a special celebratory flavor to their toll. There are two examples of this. One is...

A couple of weeks ago I stumbles across a radio program to which I used to listen. It might be of some interest to you too so here is a lin...

W hen I was first in the seminary the music book de jour was the “Glory and Praise” hymnal; the yellow one with the sunset and dove on the c...

D ear readers, today's guest blog is from the indomitable Fr. F. which made its way to my end of the wires on Monday. Perhaps it will l...

FINDING TRUTH WHEREVER IT MAY BE FOUND : " T he tempter is not so crude as to suggest to us directly that we should worship the devil. ...

I t has been pretty fun having the pope here on American soil and seeing how the nation responds to him though I’ve left remarking on it to ...

T here IS hope. I'll grant you that there is sadly a lack of any mention of the God through whom we have life and who is the cause of ou...

T he use of bells has had a strong and important use in the Church. They notify us of events occurring, they mark the time, they lead us in ...

A seminarian interviewed me for a project on which he was working and one of his questions was if I thought there was still a climate that ...