Tiber Jumper Shares His Story

October 31, 2007

Check out this video by Tiber Jumper, listed on a new Catholic media site, Love to Be Catholic.

By the way, Happy Halloween to everyone!

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Happy Halloween!

October 31, 2007

These two pint-size Dominicans, Sr. Mary Mini & Br. Half Pint, would like to remind you to not act like a pagan.

They would also like to remind you that if you see any similarly dressed revelers, they are the ones who deserve the good candy. Got it?

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The Conversion of St. Augustine, Pornography & Sexual Incontinence

October 30, 2007

Please know the speaker is a Baptist minister…

I certainly look forward to the day when Catholic priests can be counted on for more sermons including the teachings of the venerable Saint Augustine.

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Add This Site To Your Bookmarks – Father Larry Richards

October 29, 2007

Father Larry Richards
http://www.thereasonforourhope.org/

FREE CDs ($1 shipping donation requested) available at: http://www.catholicity.com/cds/confession.html Given the sampling offered here, it would be a dollar well spent. Get 2 – we all have a friend or neighbor that could use a copy themselves.

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Listen Up! Apocolypse & Israel – Always Interesting!

October 29, 2007

I rather enjoy these podcasts, I thought some others may as well.

Offered Catholic convert Taylor Marshall, assistant director of the Catholic Information Center, at his delightful blog Canterbury Tales (http://cantuar.blogspot.com/)

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A California Blogger An Ohioan Can Dig!

October 27, 2007

Do stop by Stony Creek Digest from time to time. Written by a father of 5 (one yet to be hatched) in rural California. I spent just enough time in San Diego one summer interning for Catholic Answers that I was re-affirmed in my midwesterness.

Spending a little time at his blog, makes me wonder if I couldn’t find a way to make it in California after all. Great pictures, interesting perspectives and above all, well written and well thought out posts. It is just quality. Make it a point to stop around and say hello to the venerable Stony Creek Digestor from time to time.

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Anglican Bishop’s Wife Becomes Catholic

October 27, 2007


Dublin, Oct. 15, 2007 (CWNews.com) -
The wife of an Irish Anglican bishop has entered the Roman Catholic Church, withher husband’s public support.Anita Henderson was received into the Catholic Church by Bishop John Fleming of Killala. Her husband, Bishop Richard Henderson of the Church of Ireland, attended the ceremony.The two bishops, Catholic and
Anglican, issued a joint statement after the ceremony, indicating that Anita Henderson’s religious affiliation was a matter of private conscience that “deserves the respect of us all.”"This is a time of unprecedented hospitality, friendship, and collaboration between our local churches,” the joint statement continued. The bishop said that ecumenical advances have helped make believers “increasingly aware of how much we have in common, and yet how distinctive the different traditions remain; how much in their variety they are especially suited to some, but not to others.”

I seem to recall in England there was an Anglican priest and his wife (also a minister) that went through this sort of situation the other way – he became Catholic and was ordained a priest… She remained a CofE minister…

Keep them in your prayers… Perhaps Bp. Henderson is on the same road himself.

H/T: Byzantine, TX

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Father Pablo Straub & Consecrates Of The Most Holy Savior

October 27, 2007

I just love this guy. I think I could listen to him preach for as long as he could talk… take a nap and come back for another day of it.

Mission Helpers of the Holy Savior, Inc.
P.O. Box 62087
Houston, TX 77205
(281) 751-8781
(281) 751-8017 FAX
http://www.smcenter.org/frpablo.htm
info@missionhhs.org

“A missionary priest, Father Pablo spent 20 years evangelizing Puerto Rico, the Philippines and Peru. Father has spent the last 16 years in rural Mexico. Father Pablo preaches the Word of God in both Mexico and the United States; directing missions and retreats. He appears on EWTN and Mexican Catholic television. Father Pablo is currently helping found two new Religious Orders, one of missionary Sisters and one of future priests. The orders, The Consecrates of the Most Holy Savior, are both missionary and contemplative and are located in the State of Guerrero on the lower Pacific coast of Mexico.

Young people from Mexico, Centeral and South America and the U.S. are coming forward and asking what they must do to join the new Religious Orders. For this reason, Father is actively engaged in building, at a point two miles from the Pacific upon the foothills of the Sierra Madre, a seminary and motherhouse for the future priests’ Order and a convent-motherhouse for the Sisters’ Order. Currently, the missionary Sisters are sleeping in a temporary convent and the future priests have been sleeping in the classroom building.

People wanting to learn more about the Order or offer help for the constuction of the seminary-motherhouse and the convent-motherhouse can contact Father Pablo’s office in the U.S. “

If you find vintage doo-dad, knick-knack, or gizmo that you end up selling on eBay, consider sending these guys a portion of your windfall. I have no doubt it would be put to very good use.

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Only In Ireland

October 26, 2007

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What The Hell Is That?

October 26, 2007

Remember the old Saturday Night Live sketch where Bill Murray and Steve Martin stare at the camera for like two minutes just saying “What the hell is that thing?” Genius.

Well I have to ask, what the hell is that thing?

Take your best guesses, than go here for an explanation.

If you love icons, stained glass, and statues as much as I do, you will probably be just as sad as I am when you find out what the hell that thing is…

Maybe I will just love it, in the same way I love tacky mid-century mod… Maybe not.

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Consderable Excitment Has Been Occasioned!

October 25, 2007

Dateline: June 21, 1894 from the New York Times.


Converted to the Catholic Faith.

ST. JOHN, NB., June 21.-Consderable excitment has been occasioned in this city and throught the province by the announcement of the conversion to the Roman Catholic faith of Prof. Stockley of the Univiversity of New-Brunswick, at Fredericton. Prof. Stockley occupies the Chair of English Literature, is a frequent contributor to the press, and is an ardent home ruler. He was formerly a Roman Catholic, but renounced that faith some years ago.

Your simple sinner is no expert on the politics or social scene of New Brunswick home-rulers at the end of the 1800s. But it is curious that the return of a Catholic professor in Canada to the Church of his upbrining was newsworthy enough for the New York Times… One wonders if the excitement occasioned was one of curiousity or fear…

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Dave Hartline Interview on Zenit

October 25, 2007

ZENIT News service just conducted an interview with author and blogger, Dave Hartline, whose book The Tide is Turning Toward Catholicism is taking off in Catholic bookstores. Continuing the message contained in his book (and website, The Catholic Report), Dave explains in this interview the good news about the Catholic Church. Basically, Dave explains why orthodoxy is making a comeback in the Catholic Church, despite the fact that so many of us are regularly confronted with heterodoxy at all levels of the American Church.

Also, let me point our readers to an audio interview Dave Hartline we conducted last year (.mp3 format, 17.4 mb). Jason, Jonathan, Chad, and I participated. Oh…yes we have a podcast, and no we haven’t done much with it lately.

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No Apologies: "Uncreated Being" & "Prime Mover"

October 24, 2007

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Saint Anthony Mary Claret & Blessed John Adalbert Balicki

October 24, 2007

We need some real men like this guy. Masonic agents were sent to kill him – none of them could go through with it. At least one body was sent to his residence in a box with a dagger in the heart, didn’t stop him.

You want a man who is as tough as he is holy on your side in heaven? Make friends with this guy (read more)

Or this guy.

Born to a poor but pious family. Attended twelve years of school in Rzeszow with teachers who taught a love of Polish culture. Entered the seminary at Przemysl in September 1888. Ordained on 20 July 1892. Assistant pastor of Polna where he was noted as a gifted preacher and man of prayer. Studied at the Pontifical Gregorian University from 1893 to 1897, concentrating on Saint Thomas Aquinas, spending his evenings in prayer, his free time visiting the shrines of the saints. He came to believe that science could also lead a man to God.

Professor of dogmatic theology at the seminary … He considered the spiritual formation of priests his most important mission, studying reports carefully, and praying for help before presenting candidates to the bishop. Spiritual director of Blessed Ladislaus Findysz. In 1934 his failing health forced him to resign from the seminary posts, but he lived at the seminary, hearing confessions and working as a favourite spiritual director to students.

In 1939 when Przemysl was divided between the warring German and Soviet forces, Father Jan stayed in the Soviet sector, hoping to keep the seminary running; soon, however, he was forced to move from the seminary to the bishop‘s residence where he stayed even after the war. In his last years his health failed more and more as his tuberculosis spread. Jan was noted for his gentle discernment of the people who entered his confessional, and his devotion to prayer as a way to know the heart of God.

http://www.catholic-forum.com/saints/saintjey.htm

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Saint John of Capistrano

October 23, 2007

A student under St. Bernardine of Siena, who inspired him to institute the devotion to the holy Name of Jesus and His Mother. John began his brilliant preaching apostolate with a deacon in 1420. After his ordination he traveled throughout Italy, Germany, Bohemia, Austria, Hungary, Poland, and Russia preaching penance and establishing numerous communities of Franciscan renewal. When Mohammed II was threatening Vienna and Rome, St. John, at the age of seventy, was commissioned by Pope Callistus III to preach and lead a crusade against the invading Turks. Marching at the head of seventy thousand Christians, he gained victory in the great battle of Belgrade against the Turks in 1456. Three months later he died at Illok, Hungary. His feast day is October 23. He is the patron of jurists. (Source)

It is my sincere hope that if and when Catholics are called to defend their faith and their homes against forces that bring opposition or enmity to our Catholic faith, we all have a good priest like Saint John of Capistrano marching by our sides.

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