D on’t take everything that you read at face value even if it appears in the newspaper and is authored by someone who we are told, “is a pr...

FINDING TRUTH WHEREVER IT MAY BE FOUND : "[ T ]he new media instruct he public on how to think and what they need.  Some of this subtl...

T here is a protocol in the Church that serves to make the process of doing things in the best possible way without hurting feelings.  Sa...

FINDING TRUTH WHEREVER IT MAY BE FOUND :  " I t is quaint that people talk of separating dogma from education.  Dogma is actually the ...

I am SO on vacation

I t is going to become more challenging to be Catholic I believe.  BUT I also think it is going to be a lot more fun - at least as long as ...

FINDING TRUTH WHEREVER IT MAY BE FOUND :  " S o much time and energy is waisted in futile worrying and in endless discussions about wh...

I 've always thought that, when it was possible, it always good to have more than one priest at a parish (which is becoming a rarer pos...

C ould we be living out the fairytale Little Red Riding Hood? One of the original titles of this story is, “The False Grandma,” which m...

FINDING TRUTH WHEREVER IT MAY BE FOUND :  ". . . c harity is not to be measured by the sensible satisfaction that sometimes accompanie...

W hat SNOPES has to say on the new bill in New York W hat the New York State CATHOLIC CONFERENCE says.

H ere are just some things that I need to get out of my desk. I f you didn't hear the last Theology on the Rocks on the crusades you ...

The  following  is a transcript of Fr. Simone's homily from this past weekend.  It is a  pious  reflection on St. Sebastian's thoug...

A friend of mine lives on a farm about a forty minute drive from the parish.  He is having a rough go of it lately and it is not because o...

S o I guess I owe the Weather Bureau an apology.  I have grown so jaded to the threats of the end of the modern world as we know it due to ...