Think about it . . .

This FOTC bit has long been a favorite of mine (except for a few problematic episodes which I don’t watch). I watched again the following clip of them just now and thought . . . hey, there may still be some folks out there who need to hear this message.

Dramatic video of today’s tsunami-like flooding in Australia

"Kill the Cathlics!"

Surprised by Truth 3

Ten more converts tell why they chose the Catholic Church!

In these dramatic and thought-provoking conversion stories, ten men and women reveal why they changed their minds about Protestantism and entered the Catholic Church.

These tales will do for you what these converts had to do for themselves: answer the most common objections to the Catholic Faith — and answer them in terms that non-Catholics find familiar and easy to understand.

These stories will remind you of the critical truth that all converts know but most others forget: churches must not be judged by the weakness of their members, but by the truth of what they teach.

The closer these former Protestants looked at Catholicism, the more they found that Christ’s truth is taught in its fullness only in the Catholic Church. No wonder this book is a convert maker.

But these stories do more than make converts. If you’re already Catholic, they help you explain your Faith to non-Catholics and leave you prouder and more grateful than ever to be in Christ’s Church.

So whether you’re Catholic or just inquiring, Surprised by Truth 3 is the book for you or for that friend you’d like to help come into (or back into) the Catholic Church.

255 pages, soft cover

Look what others are saying about Surprised by Truth 3:

“A superb collection of personal conversion stories, —interesting, informative, and inspiring!”
— Bert Ghezzi,Ph.D., author of Mystics and Miracles & Voices of the Saints.

“Pat has done it again! Ten more equally compelling, inspiring and intellectually sound stories of conversion.”
— Marcus C. Grodi, President of the Coming Home Network

“The Catholic Church continues to call men and women home! You’ll find the reasons why in Surprised by Truth 3.”
— Paul Thigpen, Ph.D., editor, Shaken by Scandals: Catholics Speak Out About Priests’ Sexual Abuse.

“You need to read this book!”
Curtis Martin— Founder & President of FOCUS — Fellowship of Catholic University Students

Something to keep in mind

“The problem with Internet quotations is that many of them are not genuine.” — Abraham Lincoln

Far out, man

Tune in, turn on, and click the image . . .

How to Start a Movement

I discuss "150 Bible Verses" with host Doug Keck on EWTN's "Bookmark" show

Dang

My kids’ Christmas gifts have all broken already. That’s what I get for buying them Waterford crystal.

I loved his music

Gerry Rafferty‘s distinctive voice is well-known to any radio-listening Westerner over the age of 40. With hits like “Stuck in the Middle With You” and the 1978 smash “Baker Street” (what a song), he contributed something important, if minor and intermittent, to the 1970s’ music scene. He died today at just 63. May he rest in peace. May the Lord grant him pardon and peace, and may perpetual light shine upon him.  

A primer on the difference between devotion and superstition

Here’s the entire “Catholic Answers Live” show from yesterday, January 3rd. One of the issues we covered in this show is the superstitious practice of burying a statue of St. Joseph in the yard of a house one is trying to sell. As you’ll hear, I don’t look at all favorably on that deplorable custom. One of the most intriguing calls came from a man named Larry, whom I assume is Catholic (or perhaps he’s just “Catholic”). He argued that Catholic piety regarding reverence toward the Eucharist is “superstitious.” You read that right. I’ve fielded thousands of Catholic-related questions over the years, but that one was among the most bizarre. Take a listen and please feel free to weigh in with your own thoughts on that or anything else we covered (or should have covered) in this show.


P.S. The debate on religious images and the communion of saints that I had with Protestant apologist James White (which I reference in this show) is available here.  

Map of American English dialects

Being born and raised in Southern California and living most of my life there (we moved to Central Ohio in 1997), I always thought that the “California accent” was so mild and flat that it hardly qualified as one at all. I still think that, though now that we’ve been living in Ohio for nearly 14 years, when I hear a fellow Californian speak, it’s distinctive enough for me to notice. Native Ohioans are a much different story. I can always tell when I’m speaking with someone who grew up here, especially when they say the words “boosh” (bush) and “poosh” (push). Another common one is that they say “Nerk a-HI-ya” for “Newark, Ohio.” There are other noticeable idosyncracies, to be sure. And I have no doubt that we Californians sound kind of odd to them, as well. Without question, the rise of popular television programs broadcast coast-to-coast, as well as Hollywood movies, not to mention the great increase in transience that followed in the wake of President Eisenhower’s Interstate construction initiative) contributed greatly to the general flattening of regional accents. We’re quite far away from anything resembling a homogeneous American dialect — I strongly doubt that such a thing could ever develop — but it seems to me that the regional quirks in dialect are slowly becoming, if I may be forgiven for putting it this way, less pronounced.

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