A reader of exceptionally keen insight writes: Your kind of biased report, Mark, shows why the Catholic Right are rapidly loosing credibility – because you continually distort the truth. That is so totally me: enslaved to the shibboleths of the Catholic Right. No wonder I have gotten nothing but love and adulation all these years for stroking the feelings of torture apologists and celebrating our alliance with the great and good men and women of the GOP whose only thought... Read more

A reader of exceptionally keen insight writes: Your kind of biased report, Mark, shows why the Catholic Right are rapidly loosing credibility – because you continually distort the truth. That is so totally me: enslaved to the shibboleths of the Catholic Right. No wonder I have gotten nothing but love and adulation all these years for stroking the feelings of torture apologists and celebrating our alliance with the great and good men and women of the GOP whose only thought... Read more

A reader complains: As a Protestant seeking reconciliation with the church what happened at ND with the pro Obama chanting and finding out the majority of Catholics voted this evil man in is appalling to me. If the authority of the Pope is the crown jewel of the Catholic church why do so many rebel, even bulwarks like Notre Dame. THis is all making me think twice about such authority. Why didnt the Pope speak out against this(no disrespect intended).... Read more

Today, my ever-swelling horde of obedient servants, I command you to memorize the following and recite it to your nearest blue-eyed relative before nightfall: Give me the gift of the grip top sock.A drip drape, ship shape, tip top sock.Not your spinslick, slap stick, slip slop stock;But, a plastic elastic, grip top sock. None of your fantastic slack swap slopFrom a slap-dash, flash-cash, haberdash shop;Not a knick knack, kit-lock,Knock-kneed knickerboxers sockWith a mock-shot, blob-mottled tricktickertock clock; Not a rucked-up, puckered-up... Read more

Charlotte Allen dissects the crashing boredom of the New Atheist subculture. Okay, we get it. You don’t believe in God. In fact, you hate him. Duly noted. Can we talk about something else now? Evangelical atheism is thrilling for about five minutes. But there’s only so many ways you can blaspheme before you start sounding like a johnny one note. When people discover you have nothing else to say, you start losing them. Read more

Charlotte Allen dissects the crashing boredom of the New Atheist subculture. Okay, we get it. You don’t believe in God. In fact, you hate him. Duly noted. Can we talk about something else now? Evangelical atheism is thrilling for about five minutes. But there’s only so many ways you can blaspheme before you start sounding like a johnny one note. When people discover you have nothing else to say, you start losing them. Read more

The elderly and frail Father Norman Weslin of Omaha, NE, former army colonel and founder of the Lambs of Christ gets cuffed and hauled away. His crime: he is among a group of Catholics who, for the first time in the history of the University of Notre Dame, have been arrested on campus for exercising their Catholic convictions and praying a prayer that has been recited in their chapel millions of times since its founding in 1842. Utterly, utterly disgusting.... Read more

The elderly and frail Father Norman Weslin of Omaha, NE, former army colonel and founder of the Lambs of Christ gets cuffed and hauled away. His crime: he is among a group of Catholics who, for the first time in the history of the University of Notre Dame, have been arrested on campus for exercising their Catholic convictions and praying a prayer that has been recited in their chapel millions of times since its founding in 1842. Utterly, utterly disgusting.... Read more

Catholic novelist Piers Paul Read is in town and I get to have lunch with him! Back Monday! Till then: bean, noses, restraint. Read more

Catholic novelist Piers Paul Read is in town and I get to have lunch with him! Back Monday! Till then: bean, noses, restraint. Read more