FORGIVENESS BRINGS IT and really, so does confession

IF YOU’RE NEAR MICHIGAN: wonderful-sounding retreat given by our own Pat Gohn

COFFEE, TEA or i-c-e-d c-o-f-f-e-e? Yeeeehaw!

AND THEY SAID IT COULD NEVER HAPPEN! Imagine that.

IT’S THE NEW “RACIST”: George Weigel writes:“. . . crying “homophobia” is a cheap calumny, a crypto-totalitarian bully’s smear that impresses no serious person.” But serious people may be at a premium, these days.

IN TERMS OF SCALE: There’s just no comparison

BEATIFICATION CAUSE GOES TO ROME: Fr. Emil Kapaun, Military Chaplain, Korea: He courageously rescued wounded soldiers from the battlefield, risking his own life to prevent their execution at the hands of the Chinese. He was captured by North Korean and Communist Chinese forces after he volunteered to stay behind on a battlefield with the injured. [...]

MAX LINDENMAN: What creates hambone priests?

JAMES PETHOKOUKIS: Obama made it worse: Elections have results. So do bad policies. Obama’s choices on taxing and spending and regulating, sorry to say, seem to have made things worse.

MOTHERS ALWAYS KNOW: We’re walking with virtual strangers into a re-imagined world—one where everyone is a friend and where anybody can be related to anyone, in any way they want, for whatever reason they want. What was sure is uncertain, and what seemed logical and true can now be molded into whatever shape we find [...]