John Zmirak has a very thought provoking piece on Catholics and illegal immigration today at Inside Catholic. I recommend it.
For my part, I wrote out my thoughts on this a while ago with the thought of getting them published, but never found the right venue (read: nobody was buying). I’ll offer them here, where my [...]

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I’ve mentioned that Ivan has had a change in sleeping habits over the past year. While he used to sleep through the night, he habitually began waking up around 11:30 or midnight and becoming inconsolable until we took him into our bed, where he would end up for the rest of the night, (kicking me [...]

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Having just read Archbishop Chaput’s rebuttal to Nancy Pelosi’s discussion of abortion on Meet the Press, it occured to me that it might be a worthwhile thing to send him a letter of thanks. I wish that my family could be blessed with a bishop like him, and I think that if we desire courage [...]

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My response to Mark Shea’s critique of angry trads is up at Inside Catholic. Let’s see if we can get more than 300 comments on this one…

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You just have to know where to look for it.

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Today, in addition to being my Mother’s birthday (and the eve of Kiana’s, as well) is, of course, the Feast of the Assumption.
For Mass today we went to Old St. John’s in Silver Spring (also known as Our Lady, Queen of Poland).

This parish has the distinction of having been the first parish of a certain [...]

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As was well demonstrated in the comments on my previous post (and in the comments box at Inside Catholic, for that matter), Mark Shea’s article about traditionalism and the sin of anger was largely ad hominem and without very much merit or credibility as it was written. (Jonathan and Hilary made the case best, I [...]

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Our parish dates back to the 1800s. As such, it’s beautiful, but a bit small. There are no cry rooms. The narthex is a narrow corridor in the back of the church with double-hinged doors (easy for little hands to push) large, hollow radiators (easy for little hands and feet to bang on) an old [...]

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It seems to me that one of the easiest ways to plant the seeds of Catholic Culture is to follow Sunday traditions, or, if you haven’t established them yet, to find ways to do so.
So, I’m curious - how do you keep Sunday Holy? Going to Church is a given. The Family Rosary is another [...]

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The subject of Natural Family Planning comes up every now and then, and it seems there’s quite a lot of disagreement over it. At Inside Catholic, Simcha Fisher had an article on NFP yesterday that took a more insightful look at the topic than I’ve seen in a while. But there’s more, I think, that [...]

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