Dymphna's Road

Rocky and I went to visit Holy Martyrs of Vietnam in Arlington Virginia. It was breathtaking. Somebody there really knows how to decorate. ...

  This antique holy card says Come to Me and I will bless you. HT to the lovely Elena Vidal at the Tea at Trianon blog. HAPPY BI...

  Ann Barnhardt mentioned on her site that Nat King Cole's voice always reminded her of what she imagines God's voice must sound...

May God bless you.

* Whenever Americans freak out and say something must be done....things get worse. In the 1970s there was a mass emptying of insane asylums....

The people who own this clothing company are Protestants but I've seen stuff like this on young Catholics. Ladies, if you show up ...

 So, it looks like Pope Paul VI is on his way to being cannonized. He  was an odd figure to me. I can barely remember when he died but I do...

Mary Protectress of the People of Rome, it's said to have  been painted by St. Luke and brought to Rome by St. Helena.

I think it's natural human frailty to hope that Hell is either empty or lightly populated. It's painful to think that your Uncle Lou...

This is what the LORD says: "A voice is heard in Ramah, mourning and great weeping, Rachel weeping for her children and refusing to be...

James Tissot spent ten years in Palestine, studying the clothes, the features of the locals, the flora, fauna, and geography before the ...

*In the olden days lay people who wanted to experience the beauty of monastic life simply moved as close as they could to the monks and nuns...

In the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, when Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea, and Herod was tetrarch of Galilee, and his...