FestungArnulfinger

Face-to-Face, In-The-Box, or By Mail?
There are three ways to confess, two of them approved by the Church.
•  The traditional way is to kneel down at a grate, where the priest cannot see you, and only be heard.  This has the advantage of anonymity and is probably more hygienic than other methods....

I would like to take this moment at the end of the year to make a few predictions about what our Pope Francis will and will not do in the year to come.
• He will not (he CANNOT) change Church teaching. Fornication will remain a sin, women will not be ordained, and auricular confession will still be required for the remission of sin. Right now, liberals are hoping for “change,” but they won’t get it...

Illinois is about to get same-sex marriage and I’m against it and I think I need to state my position on this so that there’s no misconstruing it.
It’s not because I’m homophobic. In fact, I’m bisexual. (How bisexual? Before I met my future wife, the longest relationship I’d ever had was my four-year high-school relationwhip with Wally.) I’m certainly not in favor of penalizing homosexuals, favor...

Frank Rich wrote a really interesting article on a gay friend he had known while growing up:
http://nymag.com/news/frank-rich/gay-history-2013-6/
I knew guys just like this.