Today, is Ash Wednesday, the dies cinerum, which marks the beginning of Lent in the Catholic Church. Lent is the forty day period preceeding Easter, the Quadragesima, which is calculated to extend from Easter Sunday back for forty days, not including Sundays. Sundays are not included because they commemorate Christ’s resurrection. Why forty days? The [...]

The Catholic News Service is reporting: The Catholic Church’s position on gun control is not easy to find; there are dozens of speeches and talks and a few documents that call for much tighter regulation of the global arms trade, but what about private gun ownership? The answer is resoundingly clear: Firearms in the hands [...]

There really is nothing new under the sun. Sr. Rebecca Shinas, OP, is a local Dominican nun who happens to be the Adult Faith Formation Director and RCIA Director at St. Simon’s Catholic Parish in Los Altos. She makes “spiritual shorts” which she posts on the web. Pay attention to how she makes the Sign [...]

The latest atrocity from the California Supreme Court, which seem to be occurring every few months now, is that medical doctors may not refuse to provide artificial reproductive technology (“ART”) to homosexuals. The two medical doctors in question claimed that they would not provide this service because a) the woman was unmarried and b) because [...]

July 25, 2008 was the 40th anniversary of the promulgation of Pope Paul VI’s encyclical, Humanae Vitae (Of Human Life). I first learned about Humanae Vitae in college. Pope John Paul II had just issued his first encyclical, Redemptoris Hominis (The Redeemer of Man) and it was becoming ever more clear what kind of Pope he would be.