Friends with Benefits (released last week but CNS put the review up last Tuesday) Rating: "O" - Catholics should not see this mov...

The budget talks continue on incessantly as it seems more and more political each day. Along those lines, someone recently sent me a Dave R...

“ It is only the authentic peacemaker who can be persecuted… The true peacemaker understands that this work necessarily requires that they m...

A study from the Institute of Medicine (IOM) came out this week recommending: "A fuller range of contraceptive education, counseling,...

Archbishop Chaput, the new Archbishop of Philadelphia as of this morning, is one of my favorite churchmen. His writing is clear, precise, c...

So I get it - I'm not a prude - a gum commercial or a shaving gel commercial has to end with Harry Handsome getting a kiss from Pretty P...

At 11 a.m. today, it was announced by the Archdiocese that 4 parishes in the Terre Haute Deanery will be closing over the next 18 months. T...

In a recent Criterion (Archindy's diocesan newspaper), the front page article was on a young lady from Roncalli High School named France...

From Romish Graffiti via Fr. Z. The Truth with Love.

Some had asked me for a copy of my homily from St. Barnabas last weekend (thanks for the comments!) but unfortunately I realized afterwards ...

A new feature of the blog that I hope to get up by Friday (probably a little late today, but maybe some are still deciding on a film for the...

As my fourth year of seminary was drawing to a close, I emailed some of the professors I would have the following fall to see if there were ...

These two videos do a nice job of capturing a bit of what monastic life is and what it is not. First, a video that was done for a monastery...

My brother Tony (a seminarian for the Archdiocese) was talking with me yesterday about an interesting experience he had. Tony doesn't r...

This is a band that I know my brother Aaron was one of the first 10 fans of. They are a folk/rock/bluegrass mix that works extremely well. ...

Today I prayed the Mass in the back of the Sacramentary titled "For Priests" - it has some gems! Consider offering one or some of...

A good friend told me today that some priests in the Archdiocese are worried that I apparently refused someone absolution. What is refusal ...