Fr. Christian Mathis | September 30, 2011
Cormac O’Duffy describes how his parish in Tennessee has overcome scandal and flourished. Shared from The Irish Catholic: I read online here in the US an article in an Irish paper that caused me some sadness. The author of the article wrote that, in the wake of the Cloyne Report, he felt he had been [...]
Fr. Christian Mathis | September 29, 2011
It started innocently enough. It was my day off and I was looking for a movie. That particular day my eyes were drawn to the cover of the movie Whip It. Whip It is the story of a girl who rejects her mother’s plans for her to be a beauty queen in favor of being [...]
Fr. Christian Mathis | September 28, 2011
In him we live and move and have our being. (Acts 17:28) God is the Supreme Being, infinitely perfect, who made all things and keeps them in existence. I have to admit that this answer seems overly simplistic when it comes to describing God. I mean, how does one describe God exactly? It seems almost [...]
Fr. Christian Mathis | September 27, 2011
In the beginning, God created heaven and earth. (Genesis 1:1) God made us. Not only did God make us, he also created the heavens and the earth. Do you ever wonder what God was thinking as he formed the heavens and the earth for us? Do you ever imagine Him there working away to create [...]
Fr. Christian Mathis | September 26, 2011
In honor of the closing of the polls in the Cannonball Catholic Blog Awards, Deacon Sean Smith was kind enough to answer some questions about the most under appreciated and most spiritual canons in the code of canon law. He also has some words of wisdom for priests who might be considering firing cannons in [...]
Fr. Christian Mathis | September 25, 2011
There are only five hours left in the voting for the sixth annual Cannonball Catholic Blog Awards. This blog still holds a slim lead in the category of Best Under Appreciated Blog. As we approach the closing of the polls my mind keeps returning to the words of the infamous Ricky Bobby whose father once [...]
Fr. Christian Mathis | September 25, 2011
One of the greatest gifts of Pope John Paul II’s papacy was the publishing of the universal Catechism of the Catholic Church. However, here in the United States a whole generation of Catholics learned the basic tenets of the faith by learning the questions and answers found within the pages of the Baltimore Catechism. This [...]
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