this post was loveless and unnecessary. So I’ve taken it down. My apologies and best wishes to Mr. Voris for a good and grace-filled Christmas through Christ our Lord. Read more

thanks to the intercession of Bl. Kateri Tekakwitha. This, of course, shows how much God favors Washington, my home and native  land. Seriously though: These things happen all the time.  The only reason people don’t believe them is not that “miracle don’t happen” but that people embrace philosophies which do not allow them to believe miracles happen.  The irony is that such people then project onto believers their own practice and insist that believers only see what they want to... Read more

I give you the Piano Guys! Merry Christmas! Read more

Don’t be sharp. Don’t be flat. Just Bea Arthur: I don’t know about you, but I’m thinking your Advent penance in the Pits of Despair just totally rocks so far! That is all! Read more

An agency made up of taxpayer funded Herods in California teeters on the brink of failure because its plan to slaughter innocents for fun and profit is hampered by the fact that all that butchery is not actually succeeding in finding any cures for anything from Embryonic Stem Cell Research. May this evil thing die soon and fail through Christ our Lord and the intercession of the Blessed Virgin and may God have pity and mercy on the monsters who... Read more

…and points out to Catholics with astoundingly bad judgment that the Presidency is not supposed to be a reward for penitence or a vehicle for a Generation Narcissus moral drama of personal redemption. It is supposed to be an office for stable and honest human beings to administer justice for the common good and not for those who enrich themselves and routinely lie. For those who imagine that Christians owe Newt Gingrich a vote on pain of being declared “unforgiving”,... Read more

Rich over at Brutally Honest has a sudden, wrenching encounter with grace in the person of Julie Carrick who, like most of God’s shocking and heartbreakingly beautiful messengers, nobody has ever heard of. It’s amazing to me how, for most of us, the most shattering and exquisite encounters with grace have take place in out of the way moments that are a million miles from the camera, the microphone and the yammering of what mass media considers “important”. From Paul,... Read more

A reader writes: I was wondering if you had seen this Christmassy article concerning the apparitions of Our Lady in Zeitoun, Cairo during 1968 (which were officially approved by the local Patriarch Cardinal Stephanos I, and listed as one of the officially approved the current Card. Secetary of State, Tascio Bertone in his book The Last Secret of Fatima). As well as being Christmassy, it also has a strong anti-abortion message. It notes that the various Marian apparitions in Egypt... Read more

A reader writes: Many, many thanks to your readers who have been praying for our friend with the stage-4 cancer and the seven young children. Here’s his wife’s latest report: “The doctor was amazed and very happy to see how much the cancer cells have been killed off- a few of the tumors being shrunk back about 80%, and some of the smaller ones almost undetectable by the CT scan! That was well beyond any expectations he had for success... Read more

We have a story just up that all Catholics should read about. You know about the Obama admin’s mandate for coverage of contraception and sterilization in insurance plans (and the ridiculously narrow religious exemption). Well, apparently Notre Dame and the Catholic Health Association have suggested a sort of compromise with the Obama administration. If Obama’s admin decides to take them up on their recommendation–and our sources indicate they might–most Catholic organizations would likely still fail to meet the exemption. And... Read more