Dymphna's Road

I grew up in a non-coffee drinking household so I never understood the lure of Starbucks. Every time I've been in one with friends I e...

Some people say that if you have a heretic for a priest and your parish is just poison and you have no other parish near you then you are ju...

Archbishop Fulton Sheen's cause for canonization is underway and he is now a Venerable. Will he be canonized? Probably. Unlike  Paul VI ...

When then Cardinal McCarrick announced that he was going to retire to Mater Dei seminary I was shocked. Considering all the rumors about him...

Our Lady of the Angels, pray for us Louie smells a rat.   I think he's right.  If you encounter a person who says, "This ...

D ivine Savior Jesus Christ, Thou are the Good Shepherd who gives His life for His sheep. Oh, be in a very special way the Good She...

I hesitate to write this because it will probably offend a lot of people but I have simply had enough of the sugar coating that has been goi...

Rocky's nephew graduated this weekend so we went to Mass at St. Ignatius at Chapel Point.   The parish was founded in 1641 and I think i...

Some years ago when Rocky was ushering at our old parish he asked a lady and her two daughters if they wanted to take up the unconsecrated H...

D ivine Savior Jesus Christ, Thou are the Good Shepherd who gives His life for His sheep. Oh, be in a very special way the Good Shepherd ...

I used to read a political/cultural blog by a man who raised a lot Hell back in the 60s and 70s but repented . Why did I stop reading him? B...

Whenever I meet a young lay person studying theology and complaining about how little they are going to make as a professor I always want to...

Hospitality workers, secretaries and personal assistant's all  see  the private side of the people they work for and I was reminded ...

Eternal Father I offer Thee the cross of Our Lord Jesus Christ and all the other instruments of His Holy Passion, that Thou mayest pu...

St. Rita, patroness of impossible causes, pray for us I just read an article about my old parish, St. Rita's in 1P5. Normally I do...

If Eva Peron's cause for beatification, much less canonization EVER gets opened and taken seriously by the Vatican it will be one of ...

I think this California law is going to lead to entrapment. Sooner or later an FBI agent or  cop is going to go into a confessional and lie...