Ronald Reagan, " A Time For Choosing" (October 26, 1964, Los Angeles) (American Rhetoric, Top 100 Speeches). [Hat tip to Tatjana ...

Sandro Magister, " Catholics and Muslims Have Signed a Charter of Rights. But Now Comes the Hard Part " (www.chiesa, November 10, ...

A reader writes: Sometimes a woman can slap a man in the face to make him come to his sense. Sometimes she leaves him. I am not sure just w...

From an excellent column by Peter Hitchens: " The Night We Waved Goodbye to America...Our Last Best Hope on Earth " (MailOnline, N...

Tridentine Community News , November 9, 2008 We continue last week's discussion of sights seen in Rome over the weekend of October 18, ...

The following discussion has been adapted from the Tridentine Community News bulletin insert for St. Josaphat Catholic Church for October 26...

We arrived just a bit late, in the midst of the Asperges , and it was heartwarming to see Fr. Lee Acervo making his way down the aisle, aspe...

A reader sent me the link to " Palin calls criticism 'cruel' " (The Seattle Times, November 8, 2008), with the comment: ...

[Hat tip to N.B.]

" Axis of evil countries 'open' to Obama " (AsiaNews.it, November 7, 2008): Ahmadinejad congratulates the U.S. president-e...

The following issue is from the St. Josaphat Catholic Church Sunday bulletin insert of October 12, 2008: Postscript to Holy Water Blessing D...

Rome Report -- Part 1 On Saturday, October 18, 2008, hundreds of people from around the world converged on Rome to celebrate two landmark ev...

There were some bright spots in this election: the US bishops who stepped up to the plate to correct Biden and Pelosi on Church teaching con...

" Congratulations, you won! How can we help " (Zippy Catholic, November 6, 2008): I acknowledge that this is going to be a diffic...

Arizona: Voted 56 percent to 44 percent to approve an amendment to ban same-sex marriage. California: Approved a ban on same-sex marriage by...