The Wild Reed

Friends, here’s a fifth (and final) excerpt from James Carroll’s book, Constantine’s Sword: The Church and the Jews . As regular readers of...

I was going through some papers at the CPCSM office yesterday and came across a National Catholic Reporter article from January 2003. Wr...

Images: Michael J. Bayly.

“We are not on earth to guard a museum, but to cultivate a flowering garden of life.” – Pope John XXIII The Wild Reed ’s series of re...

I once had a dream in which I was in one of the many rooms of a large building. This particular room was decorated as a nursery, but I was ...

Emmys snub for hit TV series True Blood Tomorrow evening some friends and I will be getting together to watch the 61st Primetime Emmy Awar...

This evening’s Wild Reed “music night” features two songs from Helen Reddy ( right ), one of the world’s most successful female vocalists...

Back in 2007, the Diocese of Westminster, in the interest of “pastoral care,” began offering a bi-monthly Mass for “homosexual Catholics,” ...

This past Sunday I accompanied my friend Phil and his parents to the Minnesota town of Northfield for the annual “Defeat of Jesse James Days...

In responding to a recent post , regular Wild Reed visitor “Mareczku” observed how certain groups of people are increasingly being made t...