Teach Him a Lesson He'll NEVER forget!

Roman Martyrology, complete, in English
The Problem with Tolerance, and the Intolerance of Tolerance
"Flesh of My Flesh" : Mary's Role in our Salvation
Gender Wars
As Catholics, What is our Way Forward after Obama's Re-Election?
CCD: Crisis in Catholic Doctrine — the Grave State of Religious Education in America
The Tortures and Torments of the Christian Martyrs
(De SS. Martyrum Cruciatibus) - Revised and Edited into Contemporary English
The Curious Faces of Sin
Custody of the Eyes: if you would keep your soul, keep your eyes
“Deconstructing” Christ: the God we never knew despite all He ever said
Attachment to Sin
Where are the Preachers? Our Primary Obligation as Catholics
Plenary Indulgences: and Why they Remain Vital to us Today
Sudden Death:
a Time to Reap
Three Pious Practices for every Devout Catholic
Mary Immaculate of Lourdes: the Latin Mass in Boston
Teach Him a Lesson He'll never forget!
God and Human Suffering
Summorum Pontificum: The Motu Proprio ... and a Deafening Silence in Boston
Ghetto Catholicism: our Need for Latin in the Mass
Lent: Jerusalem Desolata est
How to go to Mass and not lose your Faith
Chaplet of St Colette
(with audio files)
The Real Legacy of Vatican II: the Renewal that Became a Requiem - the Death of Two Monasteries
Kids without Christ:
the culpable negligence of our Catholic Bishops
Purgatory: a Doctrine of Consolation
Professional Catholics:
Parasites in the Body of Christ
A Hell of a Situation
Why do we Fear ... anything?
Choosing to be Hated for Christ
The Concept of the Most Holy Trinity
Abortion: the Lecture of Lifetime by a Child in 4 Minutes Flat
What are we to make of Miracles? Rehabilitating the Notion of the Miraculous

Exonerating God

NEVER forget!

"Go and learn the meaning of the words, I desire mercy, not sacrifice."
St. Matthew 9.13

The boy stood apprehensively before his father, his lips trembling, not knowing what to say, his eyes fixed hopelessly on his father's stern gaze.

He'd been caught.

And what he had done was terribly wrong, and very hurtful to his father. The boy knew it. He was without excuse.

Looking even more intently into his son's eyes, the father rose to his full height and in a voice resonating with depth and complete meaning, he uttered the very words the boy feared most:

"I am going to teach you a lesson you will never forget!"

The boy visibly quivered, but did not waver in his gaze. His father reached over to him, and the boy squinted, anticipating the pain.

Bringing his son's head to his chest, and folding his arms around him, the father said ...

"I forgive you."