Irish Papist

I can't remember if I've ever stopped blogging for Lent, but today-- just about an hour ago-- I decided I was going to do just that....

  That's a headline on the BBC website today. I know I'm just a stupid blogger, but I had the impression that there is considerable ...

A question prompted by my thousandth encounter with this sort of statement: "He loved good food and good wine..."

I'm stretching the term "favourite" more and more with each one of these posts, but here goes anyway... Recently, I've bee...

Very often, I hear people talk and write about nationalism as if it's some rather extreme doctrine, like anarchism or communism or compl...

I tried to change the blog's colours to purple for Lent, but for some reason I've lost the ability to do it. At least, I can only do...

Our Blessed Lord, the Man of Sorrows, Went to the Cross for every man's sake. So let us start our fast tomorrow But for today let's ...