We Need Change…

Some Seed Fell…column

I was in Washington, D.C. last week, not for the Inauguration of President Barack Obama, but for the annual March for Life. I was not there alone, but in solidarity with a crowd of 300,000 (one television station’s estimate), including many from our Diocese and even more from our state of Alabama. Something [...]

New Version of Way of the Cross

John Paul II’s Biblical Way of the Cross

What Would Have Happened?

Conversion of Saint Paul

Pope: Happy Chinese New Year!

From Asia News Italy:
Benedict XVI extended his Best Wishes for Chinese New Year to all the peoples of East Asia who follow the Lunar Year and who will start celebrating the Year of the Ox tomorrow.
Speaking at the end of the Angelus prayer to the faithful gathered in St Peter’ Square, the Pope said: “The [...]

Indifference

This week’s Some Seed Fell…column:
This past Thursday evening, a unique situation took me back thirty years to the time I lived just north of Istanbul, Turkey. Such a recollection transpired through a conversation I had at a dinner sponsored by the Alabama Faith Council held at Holy Trinity-Holy Cross Orthodox Church. My tablemate was a [...]

Rescinding Excommunications

What does it all mean for those who are members of the SSPX? Father Z provides Q & A:
I am seeing a lot of confusion in the wake of the lifting of the excommunications of the bishops of the SSPX.
Let’s get some things clear.
VERY LITTLE HAS CHANGED JURIDICALLY except in the status ofthose four bishops.
I hope that [...]

We Shall Overcome Someday

Some Seed Fell…column:
While many people today rightly embrace the values of the Civil Rights Movement, they often fall slightly short of recognizing the fundamental stimulus that motivated the first Christian ministers and civil leaders. These zealous men and women knew that equality of persons does not rest on humanity itself, but on an acknowledgement that [...]

It is Time

The beginning of a new year always promises the hope of fresh beginnings. We make resolutions to live better and to make better choices—to start anew. Perhaps that is why, when I recently attended the Divine Liturgy at Saint George Melkite Greek Catholic Church in Birmingham, these words from the Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom [...]

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20 + C + M + B + 09

One of the most popular posts on this blog continues to be the one regarding the  Blessing of your home with the Epiphany Inscription Over the Doorway of your home, from Father Mark:
The letters have two meanings. They are the initials of the traditional names of the Three Magi: Caspar, Melchior and Balthasar. They also abbreviate [...]

Imitate the Star of Bethlehem

Papal homily for the Feast of the Epiphany:
 Epiphany, the Feast that celebrates the Magi’s coming to the manger in Bethlehem led by a star, is the sign of a “cosmological revolution caused by the arrival into the world of the Son of God. [. . .] Divine love, incarnate in Christ, is the fundamental and [...]

The Priest Who Saved my Life

A good and holy priest is the reason I am able to write this at the beginning of 2009. I owe my life to him. The strange thing about this priest is that he died in 1957, the year before I was born. However, in 2000 I was driving on an interstate in Southern [...]

A Catholic Chaplain in Iraq

Tears in the Desert

Vikings and Pirates