Just to give some perspective Scholars have exercised themselves mightily over Shakespeare willing his second best bed to his wife. What does it all mean? What huge significance might there be? Well, it could be that she liked that bed. Likewise, the gravestones for Tolkien and his wife read “Beren” and “Luthien” respectively. Imagine they’d [...]

locdog offers a rejoinder to my remarks here yesterday Readers can referee the merits of his argument in my comments box if they like. Very quickly: 1. “Mr. Haskell” is not a way to impress people with the maturity of your argument. 2. Right. Nobody really believes sola scriptura. It’s a slogan, not something people [...]

Dennis Prager tells the hyper-sensitive to stop being offended for him Similarly, I don’t worry when a Muslim thinks I’m going to hell. I worry when a Muslim wishes to kill me. The ADL spends waaaaay too much time hyperventilating over Christians who think Jews need to be Christian (duh!) and should really focus its [...]

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This is very heartening to see Blessings on Archbishop Dolan.

Look at it this way… Someday Muslims, Christians and Jews, Republicans and Democrats, Barbara Streisand and Rush Limbaugh, Queensryche fans and Bach aficianados, smokers and non-smokers, PETA and the owners of Ruth’s Chris Steak House will all be a lot closer to each other. Togetherness is a beautiful thing.

A reader sez We watched CSI Miami last night. My wife loves it, but I’m not a big fan. It was a pro life program! I could not believe it! The detective finds a dead prego woman. They have to do some fetal cell research or some thing and he says something like,’its not a [...]

If this is real… Then the James ossuary is small beer. And we have the absolute earliest documentation of Jesus of Nazareth, not to mention a major archeological treasure and a holy relic of our Lord’s passion. I don’t find it as knee jerk incredible as some people do to think that the early Church [...]

A sane Michigan priest answers the Ecclesial Whores for Granholm Here’s Fr. Rob Johansen’s pro life homily from this past Sunday: Repay to Caesar what is Caesar’s, and repay to God what is God’s. In his Letter to the Ephesians, St. Paul thanked God that the Thessalonians had “shown their faith in action, worked for [...]

So…. how did this guy get to be Vocation Director for KC, Kansas? And what criteria was he looking for in men applying for the priesthood? And who put him there? And who is his successor? And does he have a boyfriend too? And if so, how “emotionally weak” will he be when they break [...]

Catholic Answers weighs in on the James ossuary

Unleash the power of the blog! A reader asks: I am looking for information on St. Bonaventure. I know St. Bonaventure is the patron saint of bowel disorders, my question is why is this patronage ascribed to him? I would imagine it has something to do with his death. I seem to remember reading that [...]