Somebody who should have been born is gone

  The Abortion by Anne Sexton Somebody who should have been born is gone. Just as the earth puckered its mouth, each bud puffing out from it...

The Guild of Blessed Titus Brandsma enjoys fruits of the 2007 Motu Proprio

The Guild meeting on Saturday stands out as key highlight of 2012. My fellow Catholic bloggers and I got together in Blackfen, the parish ma...

What do you get when you mix 3 Favourite Literary Adventures and 5 bloggers? Mulier’s Meme

Mulier Fortis recently got a Kindle and is overwhelmed by the amount of books that she can download. She started a meme where us bloggers...

Santorum attends the Novus Ordo in Latin, and has attracted vibrant young people including Evangelical Christians to manage his campaign

Blimey! Is it conceivable that a ‘Traddie’ will be the next president of America, and go with his kids to live in The White House? There c...

Cardinal Burke and Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice's invisible ‘enemies’: are Pro Ecclesia their own worst enemy?

Three tickets for Cardinal Burke’s talk collect dust on my shelf. And they will stay there for a long time, and become artefacts of our p...

The tickets have arrived for...

I heard about the tickets on Linen on The Hedgerow , who opined that the talk should be mandatory for all English and Welsh bishops.

To number drop by drop Thy blood's slow loss...

Am I a stone, and not a sheep,      That I can stand, O Christ, beneath Thy cross, To number drop by drop Thy blood's slow loss, And ye...

Let’s all say ‘the bullet’ for three days that the integrity of the Motu Proprio Summorum Pontificum will be preserved and the celebration of the Tridentine Latin Mass will be extended

Please post this prayer on your blog, it is the one the Holy Father calls "the bullet", it is so fast and effective, it goes strai...

JFK's RIP prayer card - Catholics just don't make them like they used to

47 years ago today, JFK was murdered in broad day-light. While, it was an impossibility for me to ever meet JFK, but I did meet his sister. ...

Padre Pio forbid all diabolic 'magic', and that would include children's 'toys'

Padre Pio prohibited all 'magic' and fortune telling. In November 1948, Padre Pio heard a lady’s confession. The lady gave an acco...