Burke’s Blog

By Burke Ingraffia • October 5th, 2008

Read about this 21st Century Cistercian Monastery and How They Support Themselves

The first word of the Our Father is “Our” not “My.”

There are a few places online to get authentically orthodox Catholic books. If you want to buy the best Catholic books, I recommend Ignatius Press.

Find out about a new way to find all of the official documents of the Catholic Church and Bible passages. Do a little soul searching.

Distributism is a economic theory championed in the early 20th Century that is based on Catholic social justice. Chesterton and Belloc were two of its biggest proponents.

The Archdiocese of Mobile, AL installed a new Archbishop, Thomas J. Rodi. Find out how to download his homily from the installation Mass.

On this date, May 31, in 1970 I was baptized at St. Stephen Church on Napoleon Ave. in New Orleans. It is also my wife, Melanie’s, birthday. And most importantly on this day, the Feast of the Visitation of the Virgin Mary is celebrated by the Catholic Church.
It is the day that we remember how [...]

St. Bernardine is the Patron Saint of Advertisers.  Born in 1380 in Italy, he renewed the Church in Italy in the century that preceded the Protestant Reformation and helped the Order of the Friars Minor of the Strict Observance to grow in number from 400 to 3000 during his lifetime.
There is a great little letter [...]

It’s a beautiful Monday morning in lower Alabama.  The birds are chirping, the sun still low enough in the sky to let the cool air mix with the soft, silent morning light.  I’ve just started a new day job that affords me a little more sleep in the morning and the refreshment of having the [...]

Happy Easter! I had the privilege this morning of attending the traditional Latin rite Mass at St. Patrick’s Church in New Orleans. How beautiful!  The celebrant, Fr. Stan Klores, truly inspires me, and I hope I can strengthen my will over the course of my life to be as inspirational to others as Fr. Stan [...]