Nice short column in the Catholic League email today. The heroics of St. Patrick are not appreciated as much as they should be. He is the first person in history to publicly condemn slavery, and one of the first leaders to champion the cause of equal rights. There is much to celebrate on March 17. … Read more
We have seen this in our own Catholic Church in Croton; more young people. I facilitate OCIA (the acronym for learning about Catholicism and receiving the sacraments) and right now we have three young women – 20, 21 and 24 – who are entering the Church. And we have a half dozen teenagers who are … Read more
This looks like a University Commencement speech but it doesn’t say where it is. Here’s what I posted a couple of days ago when it was announced he’d died. “I was born with a silver spoon in my mouth.”
Having carefully read four analyses (but I threw out the one from the magazine Commonweal since they will always just toe the Democrat Party line) it is very difficult to make a judgement. That was the consensus of the other three (from First Things, The Catholic Vote and the Pillar). I concur that it’s a … Read more
Yay! A win for pro-life students. Hit the link for the whole story. Ostermann will not assume the directorship of an academic institute at the University of Notre Dame. Susan Ostermann, a researcher and professor at the University of Notre Dame’s Keough School of Global Affairs, had been announced as the incoming director of the … Read more
Good! See the article below the t shirt. In 2009 Brigid was arrested on the ND campus – she was protesting Obama’s being awarded an honorary law degree. I was in my office and Tim called me up and said “Mom’s on TV. She’s being arrested. I called her and her phone rang.” They must … Read more
Yes he’s right – Mamdani dissing Catholics. Get used to it. Cardinal Dolan on Mayor Mamdani skipping Catholic events: ‘I was ticked off’ Cardinal Timothy Dolan said he was “ticked off” that Democratic New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani did not invite him to his January inauguration or attend the installation Mass of the city’s … Read more
See the information at the bottom about the author. I think these two paragraphs are worth pondering.