Your Chance To Be A Patron Of The Arts

November 23, 2013 By 2 Comments

Your favorite film producer here, with another opportunity to bring Christian Art That Does Not Suck™ to life.

About a year ago, see, there was a Kickstarter campaign for a situation comedy revolving around the life and times of, get this, a Roman Catholic Priest. The show is called Ordinary, and upon reaching their modest goal ($3,000), Timothy Quigley produced, directed, wrote, and starred in four episodes of what folks are calling the best Catholic oriented sitcom around. [Read more...]

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In The Digital Age, Remember That Not Everything Is Better On An iPad.

November 23, 2013 By 1 Comment

Almost everything is better on a tablet?

Roll clip (and don’t you dare smile!).

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When The Entire Nation Mourned (Worth A Thousand Words)

November 22, 2013 By 4 Comments

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Another Reason To Thank Catholic Monks: Great Beer!

November 17, 2013 By 2 Comments

My favorite kind!

 

I’m not saying they invented beer. But the beers we enjoy today are a lot better because of the work they did to support themselves, and evangelize. Evangelize? [Read more...]

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Nobody Is Signing Up For Obamacare? Even With Edgy And Cool Ads Like This One? UPDATED

November 12, 2013 By 6 Comments

Reuters reported yesterday that practically no one has signed up for Obamacare so far. Of course, most folks couldn’t even log on to the website run by the Feds. But let’s limit the sample size to the states that run their own exchanges, shall we? How’d they do? [Read more...]

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Breck Girls? Eat Your Hearts Out…

November 6, 2013 By Leave a Comment

There’s a new shampoo in town.

And a mane like that is one of the reasons why Loki can’t catch a break. The kids know. Roll clip, [Read more...]

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To Avoid Being A Pelagian

November 6, 2013 By Leave a Comment

He’s a Cardinal, not a Pelagian

Father Dwight Longenecker has been noodling a speech on the New Evangelization that was given recently by Cardinal Óscar Andrés Rodríguez Maradiaga. The speech can be read in full over at Whispers in the Loggia.

Cardinal Maradiaga, whom John Allen once described as being a good candidate to become  “Missionary-in-Chief,” said a number of great things in his speech. Things like, [Read more...]

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“The world holds us to be fools; let us hold it to be mad.”

November 4, 2013 By 1 Comment

I said that.

There’s is more where that came from, from St. Francis de Sales’s, Introduction to the Devout Life. [Read more...]

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Federal Appeals Court Reinstates Texas Abortion Restrictions

November 1, 2013 By 1 Comment

Before today’s news broke…

I’m of the mind that this is good news. Cecile Richards, on the other hand, probably doesn’t think so. [Read more...]

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Behold! The Official Car of the Communion of Saints…

November 1, 2013 By Leave a Comment

The Ford Mustang, naturally. [Read more...]

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