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This video from 2023 has Raymond Arroyo interviewing (grilling?) Sr Donna Dodge over the Sisters of Charity (New York) no longer accepting new members tolling its soon demise. The order was founded in 1846. Since Vatican II and decisions to have the sisters not focus as exclusively on teaching and s...

But given the time that daily Mass is usually held, from as early as noon to as late as 5 PM, a daily communicant could be fasting for as much as 18 hours a day. That seems unreasonable. Tough beans... gotta pack those calories into that 6 hour window then. Get to it! It is practically starvation a...

Doom wrote: ↑Sat Nov 29, 2025 11:17 am But given the time that daily Mass is usually held, from as early as noon to as late as 5 PM, a daily communicant could be fasting for as much as 18 hours a day. That seems unreasonable.

Tough beans...
gotta pack those calories into that 6 hour window then. Get to it!

Fr. Ernest Burner is the associate pastor along with Fr. Quinlan. Fr. Burner is the senior of the two and wishes he'd no longer be a curate but have a parish of his own. A bit more worldly than than Fr. Quinlan. Fr. Burner is on his way to go golfing which Quinlan is critical of, in a lighthearted m...

This short story starts off with a parishioner of a nearby church meeting with a priest (Father Burner) after mass, while the priest is eating breakfast in the rectory. The visitor has some plan he has that he wants to get Fr. Burner onboard with. "I should've known you'd be eating breakfast, F...

Okay, some context is needed. There is such a thing as a "Blue Mass"; this is a Mass in honor of police officers. Officers attend in uniform, in their "dress blues", the dress uniforms police officers wear for formal occasions. There is also something called a "White Mass&q...

When I was in high school we had mass, in the gymnasium, every Wednesday. I remember very little about those services. The things that do stand out were the embarrassing moments. Once my girlfriend along with 3 other girls were dressed in all black and did "body language" for the "Our...

I’ve regularly wondered (and searched with little success) how the treatment of those with birth/ developmental disorders changed with the advent of Christianity. I can conceive of how they’d be treated… as a matter of Christian principle as well as Christians failing to meet that principle. I read ...

Back in February of 2011 a friend and I went out for some drinks at various places in Milwaukee. The next day he asked me if I could check my house and car for his wedding ring. After a long search no luck. I moved on then to calling all of the bars we were at that night. Similarly, met with no luck...

I have not read this book. It was just a few moments ago that I even saw it was a book. In college, back in 1998, my sociology professor was telling us about the book "The Bell Curve" by Charles Murray. I knew nothing of Murray at that time, only what my professor would rant about. He post...

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Nope.

But that gives me a good idea. The school might actually get a kick out of seeing an old report card. Looks to still be an active school in MI.

Whenever I'm at a library or a books store I'll flick through a few books just to see what might fall out. One time I was flipping through an old book, where the binding felt like it's seen better days, and a bank envelope fell out. This was a book that hadn't been touch in a few years. I opened the...

This is funny. After writing that I search for any commentary Chesterton might have had on Emerson. One of the first links was this: https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/conversations/ralph-waldo-emerson-gk-chesterton A quote of Emerson is offered where he decries the Church for turning Christ's miracle...

I've been reading through a few of Emerson's short articles and addresses and all I feel like saying is.... eh. "Self-Reliance" starts off with a great example of this stumbling thought and trips back over itself. It starts off with I read the other day some verses written by an eminent pa...

Something quite interesting with this book... it's a notion of disaster that dovetails with something that Walker Percy had commented on. Waugh has his short story "Love Among the Ruins" while Percy has a novel "Love in the Ruins"... In this short story Miles lives in a socialist...

His short stories are different. I don't mind this one though. A satire on progressives that hits pretty close to home in our day.

A couple of days before my dad would die I was in his bedroom with him. We had moved his bed out of his room and had a hospital bed put in its place. I'm in his room with him just sitting on a chair while he lies there. He would drift in and out of lucid moments. At times being present and talking t...

I was reading the background on "The Dream of Gerontius" by Cardinal Newman, and in that background the poem "The Eternal Years" was referenced. I had never heard of Fr. Frederick William Faber before, but fitting that this was mentioned in "The Dream of Gerontius" give...

My son Liam had a few funny things. When I was reading The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe to him (around 3-4 years old) there was a part where the story relays: "Lucy and Suzanne kissed Aslan all over" (not verbatim). My son got a shocked and disgusted look on his face and asked, "...