Reverend Know-it-all

A Catholic priest responds to queries on faith, the Bible, religion, Catholic practice, etc. posed by readers. What he doesn't know, he makes up.

Sunday, April 18, 2010

What's with this "Holy Fire" nonsense?

Dear Rev. Know-it-all; We heard some loon on the radio going on and on about something called the "Holy Fire" at the Church of t...

Sunday, April 11, 2010

Setting the Times straight

Friends, This is an unusual article, but these are unusual times. I have shortened a fine article on our current difficulties. I am borrowin...

Sunday, April 4, 2010

Do you really think Jesus rose from the dead?

Dear Rev. Know it all, The Christian religion is so primitive. This myth of the dying and rising god permeates ancient religions and is only...

Monday, March 29, 2010

Notes from my family...

N.B. We are beginning Holy Week and I can think of nothing as penitential as a lecture on German history. Dear Readers, It is a very pain...

Saturday, March 27, 2010

The Rev reviews The Shack

Dear Rev Know it all; I have just read the book The Shack . It was very interesting, but I’m not sure that it very Catholic. Could you pleas...

Sunday, March 21, 2010

Why do Catholics call priests "Father"?

Dear Rev. Know it all, My neighbor, a member of the First Fire-Baptized Church of God in Christ with Signs and Wonders Following Inc., says ...

Monday, March 15, 2010

Why did they take away the Holy Water?

Dear Rev. Know it all, I was out in the suburbs this past Sunday and stopped at St. Vatsnu’s Church in Rolling Bluff Oak Terrace Vistas for ...

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About Me

Rev. Know-it-all: Rev. Know-it-all is the alter ego of Fr. Richard Simon, Pastor of St. Lambert Parish, Skokie, IL. Now a regular host of Relevant Radio's "Fr. Simon Says", Fr. Simon spent over 20 years "...teaching dead languages to comatose seminarians." Credits: The Reverend Know-It-All is a parody of Mr. Know-It-All, the alter ego of Bullwinkle J. Moose, a carton character created by Jay Ward (1920-1989).

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