New on Patrick’s Blog
- Random Acts of Kindness in Russia May 3, 2013
- Today, a great silence reigns on earth because the King is asleep March 30, 2013
- St. Patrick’s Breast-Plate: the powerful prayer of a powerful man March 17, 2013
- What I Did on My Summer Vacation March 7, 2013
- What if the next pope is the one Saint John Bosco saw in his Dream of the Two Pillars? February 12, 2013
Recent Articles
What if the next pope is the one Saint John Bosco saw in his Dream of the Two Pillars?
5 Comments For at least the next month, we will be bombarded with a myriad of theories, speculations, and predictions about who will be elected the next pope. One name you will hear a LOT about in the coming weeks is Cardinal Tarcisio Pietro Evasio Bertone, S.D.B., who currently holds two important and powerful positions [...]
New Promo for the “Right Here, Right Now with Patrick Madrid” show
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Letting go of someone I never knew
21 Comments I had an oddly poignant experience on Twitter yesterday — I know, the last place you’d ever expect to encounter something poignant. I was going through the list of people I follow and was removing those who are just trying to sell something, as well as all the self-proclaimed “marketing gurus,” “life coaches,” [...]
One of the most courageous sermons I’ve ever heard from a Catholic priest
3 Comments Over the last 25 years that I have traveled around the country speaking at Catholic parishes I have had the occasion to listen to countless sermons from countless Catholic priests. Some of those sermons were limp and lackluster, a great many were quite good — rich in scriptural and practical wisdom and insights [...]
Did you hear the one about Catholics “worshiping” statues?
The following explanation is excerpted from my book Does the Bible Really Say That? Discovering Catholic Teaching in Scripture (Servant Books): Admonitions against idolatry appear throughout Scripture (e.g., Numbers 33:52, Deut. 7:5, 25, 9:12, 12:3; 2 Kings 17:9-18, 23:24; 2 Chron. 23:17, 28:1-3, 22:18-25, 34:1-7). In 1 Corinthians 10:14 St. Paulwrote, “beloved, shun the worship of idols [...]
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