Pope Benedict XVI prefers communicants to receive on the tongue.

From an article on the CNA website.
A quote from Monsignor Guido Marini:
In this regard it is necessary not to forget the fact that the distribution of Communion on the hand remains, up to now, from the juridical standpoint, an exception (indult) to the universal law, conceded by the Holy See to those bishops’ conferences who [...]

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The history of liberty is the history of the limitation of government power…

The Young Fogey has a link to a great editorial by Paul Fischer entitled When government creates the problem.
An excerpt:

A nation’s foreign policy also reflects its internal policies. Since the passage of both the income tax and the Federal Reserve Act of 1913, our nation’s policies have benefited only those few who hold the national [...]

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Catholic Adds and Spoofs

Fr. Finigan at The hermeneutic of continuity has a post with some of Don Johannes’ YouTube Videos.
Some of my personal favorites are:
Praystation:

Thirst:

Che Cuevara vs. Christ:

The Apple Incident:

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Three cheers for FESGO!!!!!!

That would be the Federación Ecuatoriana de Sociedades de Ginecología y Obstetricia, or the Ecuadorian Federation of Societies of Gynecology and Obstetrics.

Science teaches that human life begins at conception. If it is also true that it is affirmed by religion, it does not for that reason cease to be a strictly scientific truth, to [...]

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Government Job “Creation”

Everyone needs to read this post and understand it well:
So government takes money from areas which people want more of and give it to sectors where people want less. It encourages the production of services or goods people want less while punishing the production of goods or services which people want more. The net result [...]

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The Priest Game

Some friends of ours designed The Priest Game to teach kids about the faith. Playing the game is very straight-forward, and you learn a lot about the faith.
The basic idea is that each player has a board with eight numbered pictures on it. You take your spin and then have to find the picture card [...]

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It’s interesting that I haven’t seen any mention of this in the news.

We don’t have cable, so our television viewing is very limited, but I do try to keep up with current events online.
Back in March the members of the Oklahoma House of Representatives, or at least 92 of them anyway, served notice that, apparently unlike most folks in the Federal Government, they have read the U.S. [...]

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