The high sounding word “tolerance” has become a ruse for coercion of liberal agendas. The “wall of separation,” so often distorted from Thomas Jefferson’s intent to point out the need to prevent government from meddling in religion, is crumbling. Despite pediatricians identifying youth transgenderism as “child…
Dear Mary Alice, I saw the article about you titled “San Rafael woman to break canon law to be ordained Catholic priest.” You may have been a great nurse for 35 years, and enjoyed watching the (heretical) movie Pink Smoke Over the Vatican, but those are not qualifications for the priesthood. For starters, a Y…
You knew it and I knew it. Whatever the Pope would have said in his latest document on the family, Amoris Laetitia, the secular media was going to misinterpret it. Not to lump all media together, and not to pick on the New York Times, but I’m going to use them as an example. My…
Killing began long before terrorism and abortion, so it’s easy to separate the two as having nothing to do with one another. But in conversation, if you link abortion to the rise in terrorism, most pro-life Christians will nod and say: Of course. Associating terrorism with abortion is not something done in polite company, or…
Our Lady Undoer of Knots When the devil tells an exorcist: “It is the novena to ‘she who unties the knots’ that destroyed my plans…,” it is a powerful endorsement. In the booklet, Our Lady Untier of Knots: Story of a Marian Devotion, the testimony of Capuchin Father Capriano deMeo during an exorcism in…
In Oregon, the beaver state, it is actually legal to be dumber than a beaver. Since January, it’s also legal for teens as young as 15 to have sex change operations paid for by the state and without parental permission. Beavers can do better than that. Adolescence is intended to be outgrown, not a time…
It might be an exaggeration to say that grasshoppers changed our family’s life. However, at least one of our 10 kids believes that by making room for grasshoppers in his life rather than sitting in front of a TV or video screen, his childhood was much richer. Pope Francis would agree.
It’s not humility to declare one’s self as insufficient. It’s a rejection of God. Selfishness is trending. This month the NY Times article No Kids for Me, Thanks trotted out the latest self-centered choice gaining acceptance: choosing childlessness. Granted, selfishness is in our bones from the moment of birth when it was me, me, me,…
By Nellie Edwards, paintedfaith.net What is the one thing that Pope Francis is rarely without? Hint: He always brings it with him and is seen wearing it in the majority of his pictures. Give up? It’s his smile. In most of his pictures, he is smiling. How comforting is that? Pope Francis has the weight…
What are you thinking, rebellious Catholics? Do you imagine you love more than those who follow Church teaching? Enabling isn’t love. Giving mortal sin a pass isn’t love. Seeking to make everyone happy rather than holding to truth is not love. Love hurts sometimes. It hurts when friends and family get angry with us because…
“The transfiguration did not change anything, it revealed what was already there,” our pastor, Msgr. Tom Richter stated during his Sunday homily. The story of Christ’s transfiguration had been the Gospel reading. Peter, James, and John witnessed Jesus transfigured in magnificent light and glory on Mount Tabor. Msgr. Richter then proceeded to speak of another transfiguration that…
When we’ve messed up, we should run to our mother. Scripture makes it clear. At the wedding at Cana, either the wine list or the guest list was miscalculated. Someone messed up. Mary told Jesus about it, and he saved the day by turning water into wine. But why would the Savior of the World…