Reluctant Rebel

The pilgrimage to Chimayo takes place every year here in New Mexico. I am impressed by the faith of these pilgrims.  They make the long trek...

 Well I feel just terrible. Back when we were preparing to evacuate in case the wild fire made it as far as our town, we got all our necessi...

 I heard/read the news about Pope Francis and his admonition to priests not to bless same sex unions.   As a gay man who was brought up Cath...

Pope Francis gave a relatively uninspiring TED talk recently. But despite the lack of anything revolutionary, he did talk about the good Sam...

I received one of those Flag-waving, bible thumping emails today and this was my response:  The problem as I see it is that God has been...

Looks like the Vatican has confirmed that Francis' meeting with Davis was in no way meant to be "a form of support of her position ...

UTTERLY DISPICABLE! Apparently the conservatives/Republicans are now more infallible than the Pope (who, of course, doesn't claim to be...

OK, now for something serious. No beach scenes or cute puppies. Who is dissing the Pope? People - many who call themselves Catholics and...

These are comments I posted to the Blog "Joe My God" recently regarding the news item about Sr. Jeannine Gramick and New Ways Min...

In my memoir, I spend a good number of pages telling about my difficulty in being a good Catholic boy. At moments since writing "Di...

I'm really proud of my sis (Sister "Dee" is on the far left of the photo) for going out and marching for the environment. It ...

Other blogs have posted this video and a few have given some background. I posted it on Feb 5th and I think it is important enough to re-pos...

I will not comment here; the excerpts speak for themselves, I think. Here are some excerpts (which means they are taken out of the documen...

Father Robert Nugent, SDS,one of the first Catholic priests (co-founder with Sister Jeanine Gramick, SL) to establish a ministry to the nati...

Assisi, Italy I guess I'm on a Catholic trend. I posted this to a website:  John Wijngaards Catholic Research Centre  where they a...