A reader writes: An interesting bit on how getting to know people can lead to being able to talk, argue, dialogue with them with greater respect and less hatred, even if each side remains utterly convinced about their viewpoint. I’m unsure of how to encourage more of this in this day and age, but you do see it sometimes when internet personalities that vehemently disagree can be very civilized towards eachother, and good friends and cross post, as opposed to... Read more

Secular Theocracy and the Foundations and Folly of Modern Tyranny, Part 1, you’ll love Secular Theocracy and the Foundations and Folly of Modern Tyranny, Part 2! Read more

maybe the folks running our economy should be replaced by somebody with a better track record for seeing the future, such as the staff of Psychic Hotline. Read more

is on the air! God grant us many more young Catholics! Read more

…and asks (quite reasonably) “When do coincidences stop being coincidences?” The extreme unlikelihood of our universe and the unbelievably fine-tuned precision of the thing scream “You Know Who made me!” So determined people try to dodge it with evidence-free multiverse theories that try to drown this universe in an ocean of other universes for which there is not a jot of evidence, much less proof. Of course, even if there were an infinitude of other universes, the question would still... Read more

Strange Bedfellows: Cheers Gingrich win. Blasts Ron Paul. Insane. Read more

what’s a little indefinite detention? How fitting that the man who perverts Dr. King’s ‘dream’ language to justify the former is also the guy who has codified the latter into law. Doubtless the day will come when we will likewise be told that only by rounding up undesirables and jailing them forever without trial can the American Dream come true. Only it’s entirely a coin toss as to whether it will be a Republican or Democrat telling us that since... Read more

A reader writes: Can you please ask your readers to join me in prayer for my mother, Dianne? She’s had a pre-cancerous mass since at least November, and her symptoms have worsened. We’re trying to get them in check so she can have surgery, and I’m worried that the worsened symptoms are because it’s become cancer. She’s also facing very serious financial hardships from getting medical care. All of your prayers for her and her family are apprecaited. Father, we... Read more

Hundreds of Thousands Converge on Washington to March for Life… …so the press is covering a small crowd at the statue of Joe Paterno. Read more

points out the American Conservative: Isn’t Ron Paul a social conservative? He opposes abortion, gay marriage and promiscuous sex, he has never been divorced and certainly supports family values, but he believes in limited government. Two of his brothers are ministers. Why then are evangelical leaders now opting for Santorum, and before him Gingrich? The one big area of disagreement with Ron Paul is war; foreign wars and the domestic one against drugs. For this they oppose him. Santorum supports... Read more