In today's homily from Catholic Online, Deacon Keith Fournier talks about how we as a society have turned away from God and rejected His commandments, which, by doing so we have also rejected His moral law. Now it is no secret to anyone who reads this blog, that I certainly agree with that but I know …
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It All Starts With Faith
It all starts with faith, without it we have nothing. Sunday's Gospel from Luke 13: 1 -9 includes the parable of the fig tree, in which a man has planted a fig tree which has borne no fruit for three years. He tells the gardener to cut it down, the gardener however talks him into …
What’s A Catholic To Do
The conventions are over, we have our candidates for President and now, "What's a Catholic to do?" If we are to call ourselves "good Catholics" how can we in good conscience choose a candidate?And it is even worse when it comes to the senate race in Massachusetts. As I wrote in this article on Examiner.com …
Sunday Reflection: Playing Through the Pain
Yesterday I wrote an article for one of the outlets I contribute to about the state of Massachusetts' considering making assisted suicide legal. I received a comment from one reader who believes this ballot question should pass. He argues that a person should be allowed to kill themselves. While I have never met this person I …
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The Founding Fathers Had It Right
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among them are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” Those words were written 234 years ago. What are they telling us as Americans and as Christians? They tell us …
Nancy Pelosi: A Catholic’s Catholic, Not
Everybody's favorite "Catholic's Catholic" Nancy Pelosi is at it again. Being the true Catholic she does her religion on Sunday's in church. According to this in the Washington Examiner Pelosi said: "I do my religion on Sundays, in church, and I try to go other days of the week; I don't do it at this press …
A Wayward Catholic Life Lesson: Choices
We have all heard the expression after something bad happens to us that “God is testing us”. Perhaps we have said it ourselves. I am here to tell you this is not true. God does not test us, we only test ourselves. Now this might be hard for some to believe, but God is smarter …
Read At Your Own Risk
Don’t read this blog, you might be banned from Facebook, Google or Apple. Well, you won’t be banned but I could as occasionally I might say something someone might find offensive.You see there is increasing evidence that some social networking sites are banning some content from their sites. Nope, it isn’t pornography that is okay. …
Sunday Reflections: A Prayer A Day Keeps Satan Away
The subject for today's reflection is prayer. Something some of us do, and some of us don't. When we were kids we probably all spent at least a few minutes each night, kneeling by our beds, our mother sitting next to us, saying our prayers. In my case I seem to remember an "Our Father", a …
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The War on Catholics Or Women Or Something
When you get to be my age is is so easy to get confused. Earlier this week 43 Catholic institutions filed 19 lawsuits in federal court to stop the HHS contraception mandate from going through. Didn't you see it on the mainstream media?Even though it is strictly a religious freedom issue, you would never know it. Instead …
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