Pete Vere writes from north of the border Not sure if folks on your side of the border are familiar with Linda Gibbons, a sixty-something grandmother (and woman who regrets aborting her child when she was younger) who has spent several years in jail for peacefully praying in front of Canadian abortuaries. She has just been arrested again, after arguing her case before our supreme court last Wednesday. God bless her. Time was when she would have been hailed as... Read more

If Jesus meant we are really, literally, to call no man “Father”, then what are the children of this convert Anglican priest supposed to call him? Fundamentalists who resort to this chestnut as “proof” the Church is unbiblical seldom have trouble with calling their own fathers “father”.  They also don’t seem to have issues with calling people “teacher”, which Jesus also “forbids”. Fundamentalists really need to find some less lame arguments against the Faith. Read more

Fabulously rich Obama Administration official wants to cut wages of $9/hour workers. Listening to Obama talking about economic justice for the Common Man is like listening to Newt Gingrich talk about traditional family values and honesty in government. Read more

The Mighty Rhinogradentian, which doesn’t actually exist, but should! Read more

Where snobby Jesuits can go to console themselves about being so superior to the rest of the disappointing Church: Broadway & Madison: What’s something the average faculty or staff member might not know about the chapel? Father Cobb: Non-Catholics might be consoled to know that in 1995 we asked Steven Holl to design a chapel that would be “engaging for people of all faiths or no faith or faith-under-crisis.” The poet Rilke once advised that when people disappoint you, you... Read more

courtesy of L’Angelus, a fine Cajun band. Read more

…is unjustified, so he is clearly insane according to the sober judgment of experts in Talk Radio and the War Party whose wisdom stampeded us into a foolish war less than a decade ago. Now we are, yet again, being spooked with visions of mushroom clouds over American cities, yet again, and, yet again, being told that only a fool or America-hating lefty could possibly want to avoid a fresh pre-emptive war (which, by the way, the Pope reminds us... Read more

…head for Chicago! We’re helping out with a Militia Immaculata retreat for the youthly types this weekend at Marytown out in Libertyville. In addition, (on December 31 at 9:00 AM), I will be speaking at Marytown for an Adult Morning Seminar on Mary, Mother of the Son and This is My Body. If you live in Chicago, please come! I’d love to meet you! It’s a rare treat when my sweetie gets to accompany me on my travels, so I’m... Read more

Short answer: Yes. There’s gobs of evidence for it. For my own take on the matter, go here. Read more

…is abundantly documented in stories like this one on the immense toll our chickenhawk pols inflict on their helpless experimental human subjects as they see how much abuse an all volunteer military can endure in their little Great Society building projects abroad. And now a million of them are jobless and our Ruling Elites thank them by scheming to cut their benefits. It is far more than our fat, dumb and happy nation deserves that these grossly overburdened human beings... Read more