Please pray for my cousin, Beth. Please pray also for her parents and her two fatherless children. She’s had a serious drug problem for several years, but still refuses to admit it. She has a habit of disappearing with “friends” every now and then only to show up days or weeks later, often drugged out of her mind. Her behavior has already traumatized her kids who, having been routinely abandoned for days at a time, now panic whenever they’re left... Read more

Both tomorrow’s Chesterton Society Meeting and my gig over in Bremerton are cancelled due to the weather! Just FYI! Read more

A reader writes: I wanted to write you a praise report. I asked for prayer from you and your readers on November 2, 2011, and mentioned that I was reading St. Therese’s book. Well, a little over a month later, I wound up in the hospital. I stayed for ten days. It’s a poor hospital, but a Catholic one, and hands down, had the most supportive and wonderful staff. I went through a series of 5 treatments called plasmapheresis. It... Read more

He had to have emergency surgery this AM for diverticulitis.  Apparently it means he loses part of his colon.  Father, grant him health and a swift recovery, his doctors skill and compassion, and his family peace and strength through this trial.  Mother Mary and St. Luke, pray for him.  We ask this through Christ our Lord.  Amen. Read more

I’m pleased to announce the 2012 Readers’ Choice Awards on About.com. The Readers’ Choice Awards showcase the best products, people, organizations, and services in hundreds of categories across all of About.com. This is the second year that the About.com Catholicism GuideSite will be participating in the Readers’ Choice Awards. Last year, the About.com Catholicism Readers’ Choice Awards received thousands of nominations across ten categories and tens of thousands of votes.  (You can see last year’s finalists here, and the winners here.)... Read more

Tony Rossi and the Christophers are on Patheos! The man is a breath of fresh air. Read more

Think of him as the Protestant Michael Voris. Though to Voris’ credit, he never said, as Driscoll did, that he couldn’t worship a God he could beat up, a sentiment shared by the goons charged with working Jesus over. Driscoll basically worships at the Church of Mark Driscoll’s Manly Awesomeness and he wants you to join him in adoration or he will tread you underfoot like the weenie you are. Seattle’s most embarrassing religious export. Read more

…about a neighbor’s Bible Study. Read more

Golly. Who could have foreseen this? One of my superstar former students, writing about his experience at one of our nation’s premier law schools, sent me a note after reading my MOJ post on marriage, religious liberty, and the “grand bargain.” Here is the text, with names removed to protect the innocent: I had a first-hand experience with this reality in law school. One of my constitutional law professors taught the section of our course relating to same-sex marriage under... Read more

Allow me to introduce you to a new and exciting project from Kenrick–Glennon Seminary in St. Louis, Missouri calledVox Christi, a quarterly publication of the seminarians of Kenrick–Glennon Seminary created in response to the Holy Father’s call to develop a life cultivated by art and prayer. Vox Christi seeks to share with the world the spiritual, the academic and the artistic fruits of our community to people of all ages and academic abilities in a manner that assists in building... Read more