Dymphna's Road

A Somali born young man got caught before he could bomb a Christmas tree lighting in Oregon. I am not surprised. About five years ago Catho...

Rocky had a rare Saturday off so we spent it in Southern Maryland. We drove along the backroads and visited a winery and an Amish market at ...

George Weigel *, Rorate Caeli hysterics, some of the more daft Fisheaters et al, you are not the pope. The Holy Spirit did not choose you....

Some people really need a good slap upside the head. I had refrained from saying anything about the couple who were running an internet poll...

I was looking at the parish Advent schedule of our old parish, St. Matthew's Cathedral and saw that December 1 is the World AIDS day M...

My mother had thyroid surgery on Friday. She is recovering well and I'm so thankful. I haven't slept through the night in days. We w...

Thanks be to God. 111 bishops voted for Bishop Kicanus. Over 120 showed some sense and voted for Archbishop Dolan to be president of the USC...

I was reading a close to big time Catholic blog this morning and noticed that only two people had commented on a post about the parishioners...

In the St. James Cathedral in Spain they are serious about waving their incense. I love the Holy Father's expression. He looks just like...

Rocky has often commented to me that it seems to be the fad in Catholic churches to split the parish up into groups. The school parents only...

Someone should've told Nancy Pelosi that allowing herself to be photograped like this was not a good idea. Normal people don't laugh...

Peter Kreeft may be a nice man but I wouldn't want him on my side if I ever had to fight. Reading a review of his new book,"Betwee...

Eternal rest grant unto Dean Geneva Mamie and Mac Glen and Elvira Kristin, Bertha and Yank Bet and Joe and Dave Ida and her Ida Mac Sophie, ...

Rocky and I visited St. Paul in Richmond last Sunday and it was wonderful. We didn't know it until we stepped inside but St. Paul is a ...

Whenever a secular newspaper starts a story with the words, "the Vatican says," I get ready to be annoyed. An idiot editor of L...