on how to bear witness to the Faith in the sad, anxiety-ridden world of hookup culture. Read more

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…it’s only fair I also commend Glenn Beck for joining the fight for religious liberty against our God King. Well done, sir. Read more

Periodically, some materialist will try to sell you the Brooklyn Bridge by reducing all that you think, feel, believe and are as a person to purely materialist phenomena. One of the tricks for selling that bit of snake oil is the good old brain scan image, in which your thoughts and feelings are reduced to some colored patches of brain activity. Not so fast, say a couple of researchers, unles you want to believe that a dead salmon is experiencing... Read more

A reader writes: I had to forward you this Letter to the Editor from Sunday’s Syracuse Post-Standard. Don’t let your mouth hit the floor when you read the author’s absolutely impenetrable argument defending the sacredness of human life: Excerpt: “Life is sacred. That is why we educate people about the responsibilities that accompany giving birth to a child. Food, clothing, shelter — “the basics” — are often not thought of when the uneducated suddenly become parents. To that end, preventing... Read more

I must say, I have a sort of back-handed gratitude to our God King. His direct, aggressive and brazen assault on religious liberty in general and on the Catholic Church in particular has caused a huge number of American bishops to stiffen their spines and say “Not just no, but HELL NO!” to this naked act of leftist tyranny. And not just them, Catholics on the left and the right are locking arms on this. A hopeful sign. Some people... Read more

This could be good or it could be dreadful. A lot of it depends on how well Spielberg can keep his issues with Daddy from intruding on the story. Also, much depends on how well he can actually get himself into the frame of mind of ancients and not simply impose upon the story all the normal assumptions of a postmodern Hollywood type. We’ll see. Read more

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to be helping out an atheist blog, but since I believe the faith has nothing to fear from atheism (as distinct from atheists, who have demonstrated a remarkable capacity for murder in the name of their god), I think that one thing Catholics can do is always try to support and foster whatever is closest to the gospel in belief systems at variance with our own. So, given a choice between, say, a Muslim who warmly affirms Jesus as a... Read more

to Murder Inc’s Protection Racket. Sad. Some liberalism. Update:  Komen may not have exactly reversed course, so now they appear to be alienating everybody. The Mafiosi at PP have demanded to extort what is, after all, free money from them, while they seem to be willing to put up with it to save face.  Rod Dreher notes, “A wise friend observes that Nancy Brinker, the Dallas socialite who founded and runs Komen, could have withstood the pressure from the media,... Read more