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Happy Easter - He is Risen!
Wishing all my readers and dear friends a very joyful Easter. May you get every blessing in the Risen Lord. He has conquered death!
View ArticleFor the record, I don't want to be a woman priest
Last night, CBC broadcast their report on Pope Francis. At the start of my bit, I’m quoted as saying that a number of people assume that I’d become a woman priest were Pope Francis to allow them....
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This Easter celebrated comedy writer Tom Leopold celebrates 5 years as a...
This November just passed, I interviewed Tom Leopold about his upbringing in Miami, life as a young comedy writer, how he met Barbara his lovely wife and about the intense times of suffering when his...
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John Paul II was the only person that Padre Pio ever told about his most...
Padre Pio bore the wounds of Christ, and deliberately confided in the priest who would be the Vicar of Christ In the years after World War II, the young Fr Karol Wojtyla was doing further study in...
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Cora Sherlock: the steely solicitor seeking the repeal of the Irish abortion law
Cora Sherlock is a 38-year-old Dubliner, a solicitor by profession, a writer of children’s fiction and deputy chairwoman of the Pro-Life Campaign in Ireland. Born into a close-knit family in Drogheda,...
View ArticleBring flowers of the rarest...
My first post in this month of May is dedicated to Our Lady.
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The flowers that shower the bowers in May...
Last month, I was blogging at every spare moment and forcing myself to post even when I found the subject matter uncomfortable such as The Judas Complex. Or, happily writing a post on something I find...
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The most amazing case of Padre Pio’s intercession?
The case of Gemma di Giorgi baffles doctors. Born in the Sicilian town of Ribera on Christmas day, 1939, her mother noted that Gemma seemed different to other children.Looking into the eyes of her...
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Is it bad for a young man’s career - if - he dates a Catholic blogger or...
The only reason that I ask is because a young fellow cancelled a date with me barely a minute after he found out that I did Catholic journalism. I was a casualty of a fix-up. A much older friend of...
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On LOVE...
Last night, after finishing my bleeding-heart post, I wandered over to the Marie Claire website, wanting to see if they had any articles / features from a pro-life perspective. Happily, while over in...
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Padre Pio is confronted with a dead baby in a suitcase, and restores the babe...
Padre Pio and Dr Sanguinetti deep in conversation Dr Sanguinetti was a medical doctor, a convert to Catholicism and one of Padre Pio’s most trusted friends. And the good doctor was witness to an...
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Two moments awakened in Pope Francis a deep devotion to Our Lady
Ten years ago I read about Our Lady’s request at Fatima that we say a daily rosary. At first I flinched at the notion of saying one every day. I thought it impossible; I’d never have the time, the...
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No, Michael Fassbender did not...
…grant me an interview. Since my gushy-slushy review of The Counsellor, people have been asking if I have managed to get a chat with Michael Fassbender. The truth is that he’s never available, and...
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The prayer that Padre Pio said everyday for his followers and those who asked...
In the wake of my post about Gemma di Giorgi, the 'blind' woman who had no pupils, but who was able to see after Padre Pio interceded for a miracle, people have been asking, 'what prayers do we say to...
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Eat the rich? Why not eat the proud?
Since Pope Francis became elected Pope, there has been much hand-wringing about the poor. The dialogue has been dominated by one solution: that the wealthy ought to give more to the poor. Often...
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Would YOU join us in asking Padre Pio’s intercession for my good friend who...
This week, I got some scary news. A good friend of mine has been battling cancer for some time. But he has found out that the malignant cells have multiplied and spread throughout his body. Chemo...
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I did an in-depth interview with Nigel Farage…
…for a big broadsheet newspaper. Nigel Farage rang me and summoned me to UKIP headquarters for an interview. I hailed a black cab, and sped along Kensington Gore to Mayfair. On the way, I got talking...
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Padre Pio told a woman it was her fault that her husband had left her…
One of Padre Pio’s great friends was Giuseppe Canapone. Giuseppe had certain privileges that few people enjoyed. He could go to Padre Pio’s cell without seeking anyone’s permission, speak with Padre...
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Padre Pio on the Rosary
I am searching for Padre Pio's views on the Rosary. While I have been saying the Rosary daily for ten years, I have discovered some gems of wisdom about the Rosary that I never knew, such as Our Lady...
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50 years ago Padre Pio was being treated like a criminal, until Pope Paul VI...
Fifty years have passed since 1964, when Padre Pio was freed from certain tight constraints that bound him.The humble Italian friar had been blessed with supernatural gifts such as reading souls,...
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