This is one of my favorite Catholic jokes.
Q. How do you make Holy Water.
A. You boil the Hell out of it.

I was recently having a discussion with someone about why we were always late to mass on the weekend.  They asked, “Why don’t you just start getting ready 15 or 30 minutes earlier?”  Honestly, we have tried that approach, and found that we still ended up being late.  After putting in much thought, I have […]

While there isn’t a ‘Catholic‘ perspective on global warming, it is certainly interesting to see the perspective presented in the New York Times over the past 150 years.  This is a fun read. 
150 Years of Global Warming and Cooling at the New York Times
http://newsbusters.org/node/11640

As far as apologetics references go, one of the best is the Catholic Answer Bible.  Not only is it a full Bible, but also it includes over 800 scriptural and catechetical references for fending off the anti-catholic attackes from well meaning evangelicals.  This is the perfect gift for a catholic college student or someone considering […]

I think that everyone who went through Catholic School will certainly appreciate this story. 
Christian Math
A ten year old public school boy was finding fifth grade math to be the challenge of his life. Science? A piece of cake. Geography? No big deal. Spelling? Ha! Give me a break…but MATH? It was devastating! To not only […]

I doubt that we shook our evangelical friend’s faith or his resolve to save Catholics, but we at least showed him that there were Catholics who knew their Bible and could challenge him with some tough questions about his views of the church and the Bible.  I am firmly convinced that any Catholic who knows […]

We turned the conversation to the authority of scripture and the Catholic church.  We pointed out that if the Bible was the only source of authority in matters of faith, then the Bible should state that or else the teaching would not be from the Bible.  He started spouting off verses, so we pulled out […]

A few years ago, I was riding on the Chicago Metra to a conference when my wife and I decided to pull our our rosaries for a little prayer time.  Within 10 minutes, a nice young man came down from the upper level of the train to talk with us about why the rosary was a […]

In an odd turn of events, Fr. Fessio has been rehired by Ave Maria University in a ‘non-administrative’ role.  Sounds like the administration blinked and came to its senses when two thirds of the student body came out to protest immediately after news of the firing was announced. 

On Wednesday, Fr. Fessio was asked to resign from Ave Maria University in Naples, Florida.  He refused and was fired.  However, students and staff are still waiting for an explanation of the firing.  Fr. Fessio was much loved by students, and by all accounts, students are quite puzzelled by the firing.  One faculty member tells […]