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An interview with Pierluigi Molla, son of St Gianna Beretta Molla: As Catholics, we need to learn how to be coherent with our values and beliefs. My mother grew up in a family where she received the faith and values from her father and mother, and how to live life in a correct way. She… Continue reading ‘It is amazing to be the son of a saint’

Despite popular myth, the Church did not burn heretics. It was the secular authorities that held heresy to be a capital offense. The simple fact is that the medieval Inquisition saved uncounted thousands of innocent (and even not-so-innocent) people who would otherwise have been roasted by secular lords or mob rule. HT: La Shaidle

SRSLY. Maybe I’ll give this recipe a try. This is an awesome option too. And the Fraters — optissime. FTC disclaimer: No bennies to me. I just like fruitcake.

Very refreshing to read this in the Post (about all that creepy Obama art.)

For the intentions of Pansy and her family, that God’s will be done in this situation For the repose of the soul of my great-aunt, and for guidance for her surviving sister For a new job for my brother-in-law, who was just laid off 1. Make the Sign of the Cross 2. Say the Act… Continue reading Our Lady, Undoer of Knots: Day 3

Christians are in the world, but not of the world. We belong to God, and our home is heaven. But we‟re here for a reason: to change the world, for the sake of the world, in the name of Jesus Christ. That work belongs to each of us. Nobody else will do it for us.… Continue reading Archbishop Chaput’s address at Belmont Abbey

Prissy moralism as a weird kind of sumptuary law: …[L]ife is soft enough that our over-educated upper-middle classes are able to do away with moral codes that serve a purpose, and adopt more byzantine ones which demonstrate their freedom from concern. I see this as a form of conspicuous consumption, a status marker for viewing… Continue reading Why (certain) white people like certain stuff

See where you stand at http://www.globalrichlist.com/ HT: Jen