Notice the book on the bookshelf.

Where I get it from. . As some readers know, I come from a really crazy family. No big deal. Many times random memories just seem to pop-up ...

August 21 is the feast of Pius X. I am continuing to work on my Fatima painting, "The Secret". As I was looking for some images...

Or vacation? . Did I tell you I stopped reading Weakland's memoirs, A Pilgrim In A Pilgrim Church ? I lost interest, I'll probably...

Enclosure. Years ago, as a novice in a contemplative monastery I got up between 2:30 AM and 3 AM and made my way to my place in choir as soo...

Christianity without the Cross.

How's that for a headline? . It's true. Today the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America was scheduled to vote on a 34-page documen...

Watch your mouth - text. . People say things in emails and comment boxes - yes, and on blogs - stuff they may otherwise never say to someone...

Imagine - 90% of the vote. . On August 19, 1934, about 95 percent of registered voters in Germany went to the polls and gave Hitler 38 milli...

"It is only recently that I have come to understand the meaning of the cross. It is at once prodigious and atrocious: prodigious becaus...

"Lift up your hearts!" . This photo - FOR ME - illustrates who Mass facing the people is often all about. Don't you see it? ...

And I almost think I deserve it! . Larry awarded me this: The Anti-Muffin Award is for "bloggers who are decidedly "Anti-Muffins...

Can they learn from the mistakes made in the West? . Addressing the Asian Bishop's Conference, Cardinal Arinze had this to say regarding...

...one step back. . That is Obama-speak, an inversion of the old Leninist saying, 'one step forward, two steps back'. Anyway, it lo...

What if we are living - right now - in the era of peace Our Lady promised at Fatima? What if this is it for the New Springtime? . What if...

I haven't registered or applied for clearance to comment at Fr. Z's - but he posted this image as an image of the Assumption of the...

Larry's gettin' all literate over at A of A . . I'm kinder intimerdatered.

Letting my freak flag fly. . I was never at Woodstock. Believe it or not I actually thought it was disgusting - what I saw on the news at t...

"We should all take time to ponder our own martyrdom, because the time may come when we are called to give up absolutely everything for...

I knoooooooooooooooooooooow! . Photo credit: The Sartorialist