Monday, March 16, 2026

G.K. Chesterton on What Protestants THINK are the central tenets of Catholicism

"So much of the Protestant tradition still remains that a great many people suppose that the chief marks of Catholicity are those which stood out as stains in the eyes of the last school of critics.  Romanism is supposed to be made up of Popery and Purgatory and the confessional, with the queerest things thrown in, such as incense and rosaries and the images of saints.

But these were often the things most important to Protestants, not most important to Catholics"


G.K. Chesterton.  "The Well and the Shallows".

Should you Fast on the Sundays of Lent?

 No.


St. Thomas Auinas, in his commentary on Romans 14:5 notes: “There are some days on which it is unlawful to fast.  For Augustine says in his “Letter to Casulanus”: “Whoever thinks that a fast should be decreed on the Lord’s day would not be a small scandal to the Church."

Tuesday, January 20, 2026

Fernando Mendoza brought the Heisman to my spiritual director Fr. Patrick Hyde!

Active Catholic Fernando Mendoza on Going to Mass and Confession