We're two guys — Woodward and Vehige (rhymes with "Peggy") — who get together every other Thursday for dinner (gumbo, if we can), a movie, and conversation about everything from theology to pop culture.
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Perhaps the greatest of many great gifts to the Church from my favorite Pope, Bl. Pius IX:
Let all the children of the Catholic Church, who are so very dear to us, hear these words of ours. With a still more ardent zeal for piety, religion and...
On this day in 1581, the Jesuit priest Edmund Campion was hanged, drawn, and quartered at Tyburn, the appointed location for the execution of criminals in London. The official charge of which he had been convicted was treason, but as he himself made...
It's a bit of conventional moral advice best known by most people as a lyric from "Santa Clause Is Coming to Town." Doing something "for goodness' sake" originated, the linguists tell us, as a euphemism, a circumspect alternative to doing something...
Some very random thoughts on the day:
Abraham Lincoln's November 1863 proclamation of a national "day of thanksgiving and praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the heavens" makes for interesting reading. It moves well beyond the customarily...
"The substantial victories of the Church have lain, always, in the sphere of the human conscience. Christ has reigned, not in the councils of nations, but in men's hearts. If every country in the world professed the Catholic religion, set up religious...
