Dymphna's Road

1. Why does anybody pay any attention to Andrew Sullivan? 2. Why was so much attention paid to the Indian Ocean tidal wave last year? Not th...

This Christmas my husband and I watched Steve Ray's DVD on the life of Jesus. It's pretty good. Ray's voice is very, very anno...

At the 10:30 Christmas Mass at the Basilica of the Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in DC, the celebrating priest led the worshippers in ...

I've been listening to a CD ofA Christmas Carol performed by Basil Rathbone and a couple of weird thoughts came to me. Is it really po...

Being the wife of the preacher man is not easy. Some preacher's wives become depressed. Some take comfort in being co-leaders of the chu...

My in-laws gave me a large statue of Pope John Paul II for Christmas. It looks a bit like this one. I was so happy. It's a nice statue ...

Yesterday I was in Vienna Virginia and made a quick stop to a church that I'd driven past for years but never visited. It's a tradi...

Richard Pryor died. He'd been sick for years with MS and it was a release. Yes, it's true that he had a drug problem once and that ...

Hooray! You can buy the Father Neo poster now.

Tookie Williams is going to be given a rousing funeral at an AME church in LA. What a shameful moment for AME. Tookie was a thug, a killer, ...

On December 15, St. Matthews Cathedral in DC had its annual pennance service. There were 20 priests there and they spoke several languages i...

Some of my fellow Christians embarrass me. They whine and complain that there is nothing to watch at the theater and when a movie like Narni...

The Angel Gabriel from Heaven Came : The angel Gabriel from heaven came,With wings as drifted snow, with eyes as flame:"All hail to th...

In the What Kind of Hero Would You Be quizz I scored as Batman

Do Catholic message boards/chat forums do more harm than good? After reading Angelqueen and a number of blogs I'm really wondering if th...

I just got through reading Inside Mormonism by Isaiah Bennet. It is very sad. The further you get away from orthodox Christianity the crazi...

An English translation of the Vatican instruction on gays in the seminary is online at Catholic World News and other places. It looks like g...

I found a blog by a young man that is very neat. It's called St. Joseph's Vanguard . And another one was Catholic Fire . I went to t...

Fr. Corapi's preaching. Fr. Pablo Struab's preaching. Love that accent. The Franciscans of the Eternal Word .

The LA Times ran a story about a seminary in California that apparently was the original Pink Palace. It looks like any freak with a yen to...