Dymphna's Road

Pray for the Holy Father

Swing on over to New Oxford Review and read this. When you're done go to Lair of the Catholic Cavemen and read what Vir has to say about...

I used to enjoy Halloween but now I don't feel all that comfortable with it. Isn't it weird to dress your child up as a fictional ch...

Lately I've been very disappointed by the blogs of some professional Catholics. The professionals are lay people who make their living b...

I'm shedding no tears for Michael J. Fox. He's been, whether he realizes it or not, hightly blessed. He's rich, he has a wife wh...

I had to go back to New York City on business again. Everything job related and after hours went well. I went to Confession and Mass at St....

I've been reading a lot of disturbing comments from people who I thought would know better about Madonna's "adoption" of a...

Several months ago Peggy Noonan wrote an op ed where she opined that our country's elites have pretty much decided that the rest of us c...

I just finished reading My Life With the Saints. I won't bother to link to it because it's lousy. It was written by a Jesuit priest ...

Apparently Rod Dreher has left the Church and has converted to the Orthodox faith. I don't know how old Dreher is but he seems young en...

This morning I was in New York City (for work) and before my train to Virginia took off I visited St. Franciscan on 31rst street. It looked ...

1. I wish Rosie O'Donnel would go back under whatever rock she was hibernating under. I'm sorry her mother died when she was young. ...

A 32 year old sadistic, freaked out bastard walked into an Amish school and killed (so far) six young girls and himself. Amish country in L...

Rocky and I went to the Tridentine Mass at St. Lawrence in the Virginia suburbs today. We loved it; we really, really loved it. With this Ma...

This picture was taken of the saint when she was a 15 year old novice. It's one of my favorites.

Well, my mother in law is out of the hospital. Thank you to everyone who said prayers for her. She had one really rough night because a nur...

My mother-in-law, Big Mama has a kink in her small intestine. She's in the hospital with a tube going down her throat that is pumping ou...

Dear God, I beg You to keep Your servant, Benedict XVI safe. Send Your holy angels to be a mighty shield of protection around him. I beg thi...