The horrors of the Philadelphia abortion clinic of Kermit Gosnell rank with the worst serial killers in US history. Jill Stanek writes here comparing Gosnell to mass murderers Jeffrey Dahmer, John Wayne Gacy and Richard Speck. The media covered gruesome stories like that in every morbid and macabre detail. Likewise, if the crime fits their political [...]

With the death of Margaret Thatcher the conversations have been buzzing about the goodness or otherwise of trickle down economics, Thatcherism, Reaganomics–you name it. What people don’t seem to get is that any economic or political system, without personal virtue, will be a failure. Every ideology will fail. Every economic system will fail. Every political [...]

Jimmy Akin does his usual detailed detective work to tell us exactly when Jesus died. Go here.

Here’s an article I wrote today for Aleteia. Was Thatcherism Catholic? What was true about it was Catholic. What was not true about it was not Catholic…

The death of Margaret Thatcher and the suicide of Matthew Warren–the son of Pastor Rick Warren has brought to light the irrational rage that has been simmering in our society for some time. I experienced this when a colleague said in 2008 that any Catholic who knowingly voted for Obama should go to confession. His [...]

Your blogger is on his first real vacation for two years and has been commanded by family and friends to stop blogging and chill. I will obey, and I’m not telling anyone where I am except that it is perfectly idyllic. See you next week.