Reflecting on the still, small voice that sustains us
There is a scene in C.S. Lewis’s Chronicles of Narnia novel The Magician’s Nephew in which Aslan, the lion who represents Christ, sings Narnia and all the universe around it into existence. His voice...
View Article“Learning that Catholics themselves were grieving over abuse…helped me become...
Catholic World Report today features an interview with me by John Burger in which I talk about why the Catholic Church, and all society, needs to reach out to victims of childhood sexual abuse, a need...
View Article“This is the night”: A Holy Saturday reflection
Holy Saturday is particularly meaningful for me because it was on Holy Saturday in 2006 that I received the Sacrament of Confirmation, after being received into the Catholic Church on Holy Thursday. In...
View ArticleUPDATED WITH ACTION ITEM: Harvard can do better than give a platform to a...
TAKE ACTION: After you read the post below, here is what you can do to take action. Original post follows: Reading the Anchoress’s excellent coverage of the “Black Mass” that is being promoted at...
View ArticleTAKE ACTION: Tell feds, already probing Harvard on sex abuse, that “Black...
As I wrote earlier, the promoter of the Black Mass at Harvard has a long history of ridiculing victims of sex abuse. He does it under the guise of debunking “false memory syndrome,” but his attacks go...
View ArticleCardinal Rodriguez veers from prepared remarks to combat “big beast” of...
Rocco Palmo introduces the prepared text of the speech Cardinal Oscar Rodríguez Maradiaga delivered today at a Washington, D.C., conference with the observation that Rodríguez ”tends to replace a good...
View ArticleJack Nicholson as you’ve never seen him–playing a Franciscan friar
Did you know that one of Jack Nicholson’s first starring television roles was on “The Hour of St. Francis”? In the episode, filmed in the early 1960s, he plays a teenager discerning a vocation to the...
View ArticleUPDATED: How to stop the OKC “Black Mass”–for now
[Updated 7/2/14, 9:04 a.m., with sample tweets, EEOC response, & request for suggestions for further action.] As the taxpayer-funded Oklahoma City Civic Center prepares to host the latest public...
View Article“Being hopeful doesn’t mean being ‘Little Mary Sunshine’ all the time”
Rachel Balducci, the co-host of Catholic TV’s “The Gist” and best-selling author of How Do You Tuck In a Superhero? And Other Delightful Mysteries of Raising Boys, just published an interview with me...
View ArticleHiatus
I just noticed that the offensive advertisements that have long been appearing on National Review Online are now at the bottom of my blog, attempting to lure readers to other sites via images of...
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