Sunday, October 30, 2016

How Jack Chick (Ironically) Brought Me To Catholicism

How Jack Chick (Ironically) Brought Me To Catholicism: Jack Chick is responsible for cultivating deliberate falsehoods and blaspheming Christ’s Church via his Chick Tracts. But it is one of those very tracts that helped nudge me along my conversion, and so it seems fitting that I offer prayers and a Mass for the repose of his soul. May he rest in the peace of our merciful Eucharistic Lord.

Saturday, October 29, 2016

The Jesus Prayer: An Eastern Prayer for Western Hearts

The Jesus Prayer: An Eastern Prayer for Western Hearts: The Jesus Prayer is a simple way to bring us into unceasing contact with Jesus in unity with our Eastern Christian brothers and sisters. As Christians we are about devotion not division.

The 7 deadly sins election


Thursday, October 27, 2016

The Consumer-Driven Church - Crisis Magazine

The Consumer-Driven Church - Crisis Magazine: A recent survey (August 2016) by the Pew Research Center reveals that American churches have produced a generation of spiritual consumers who want little more from their religious community than a good pulpiteer, a satisfying worship service, and a congregation filled with nice, friendly members. Researching the habits of U.S. Christians, Pew found that nearly …

Wednesday, October 19, 2016

Our chastisement


Happy Birthday!

Rev. James Brady Callan (center) 69 years old.  Former Roman Catholic priest and 'founder' of Spiritus Christi.

I wonder if Spiritus has a 401k retirement plan?

Tuesday, October 18, 2016

Sunday, October 16, 2016

John Piper Says Both Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton Should Quit the Race

John Piper Says Both Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton Should Quit the Race

Cairo bishop urges Church to be ready for martyrdom

Cairo bishop urges Church to be ready for martyrdom: A senior Anglican archbishop from the Global South called for the Church to be “ready to sacrifice their lives for the sake of Christ” in the face of persecution, restrictions, terrorism, and violence carried out in the name of religion.