New head man at Mundelein Seminary, reported a week ago by the Daily Herald. Period. It’s no small deal. He has a unique presence and as they say in show biz, chops. Widely published, a television performer a la the great Fulton Sheen, though of …

Should Chicago’s Fr. Barron not praise him?

At Notre Dame!

Well, heck, he’s down in S. America, where it’s paddy-bar-the-door when it comes to left-wing economic analysis   Read it here: Crisis and survival. But God knows how many Norteamericanos applaud him, in or out of the Jesuits.

Rev. Wilson Miscamble CSC speaks up for Bishop Daniel Jenky CSC of Peoria in re Jenky’s vigorous, pointed analysis of Obama’s attacks on Catholic ministry: His homily was a courageous homily which pointed to a pattern of behavior of a numbe…

Shot down to the Loop on Palm Sunday for mass at St. Peter’s on Madison Street.  Green Line Special, fast and easy. I went partly for that urban anonymity celebrated 50 years ago by Harvey Cox in his Secular City.  I found the crowd lea…

In England and Wales (as elsewhere), Anglicans are coming to Rome: The ordinariate allows Anglicans to enter the Catholic Church while retaining “a love and gratitude for the Anglican forms of faith and worship.” The ordinariate website explains th…

Holy tilapia! And let me put in a good word for fasting, and I don’t mean the minimal requirements of the church. For years, I did longer fasts of five to seven days and it was easier to do than imagined because a little button in my brain relate…

Sharia law NOT, says T. More Law Center. The Thomas More Law Center (TMLC) announced today that the City of Dearborn, its Mayor, John B. OReilly, its Chief of Police, Ronald Haddad, 17 City police officers, and two executives of the American Arab Chamb…

In Afghanistan, a convert to Christianity faces the death sentence. And, according to some Islamic scholars, homosexuality likewise is to be punished by a death sentence. This is what we are told is what the Koran requires of such "crimes."…