…in the War on Christmas. Culture warfare is not the same as spiritual warfare because the anger of man does not bring about  the righteousness of God. Read more

…not for being bad, or to help you build character, but just because I can (plus, I still don’t have my millllion dollars from the governments of earth).  So…. And no, it doesn’t get better. That is all! Read more

that he will not let the Prez ruthlessly smash Catholic conscience. Obama’s hostility to the Church seems not to care who gets hurt, just so long as rigid ideological conformity to liberal groin pieties is mindlessly enforced. Read more

reflects on the oddity of going to daily Mass. I hear you girl. When you stop and reflect on the sheer strangeness of what it is we believe and do as Catholics, you realize that the atheist J.B.S. Haldane was only speaking the sober truth when he said, “Now my own suspicion is that the Universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose.” Read more

These guys (Brian Austin and Chris Wira) are pretty handy with guitars: Check thou them out! Read more

I know your readers often appeal to you with questions, so I’m hoping maybe you’ll have some suggestions for me. The Long Story: My kids (older elementary to high school) have all been through confirmation, but when it comes to ongoing instruction in the Faith, we haven’t been very satisfied with what our parish offers. The people are very nice and supportive, but youth group and catechesis classes tend to be either just a get-together for fun, or the teaching... Read more

…with family over in our Hidden Peninsular Redoubt. However, I have not forgotten you as you groan and beg for death in my Pits of Despair. In an effort to motivate you to beg more loudly and sincerely (as well as to persuade the governments of the world to heed my demand for one millllion dollars, I give you the lovely and glamorous and utterly out-of-place Diahann Carroll in today’s segment of the Star Wars Holiday Special: No need to... Read more

supporting good Catholic education has never been more vital. Read more

It’s hard to improve on what Douglas Wilson has to say. It is a gracious farewell to a man who I couldn’t help but like, despite his sometimes glaring faults and errors (as who does not have?). I will add this (since Wilson’s Calvinism forbid him from praying for the dead): Father, grant Hitchens the grace of eternal life through Christ our Lord. Forgive him all his sins and find some way, through his love of honesty and scorn for... Read more

…on Voting as a Moral Act. And, by the way, about this business that we *have* to vote even when two candidates both advocate grave intrinsic evil. It comes from a very selective reading of CCC 2240. Let’s look at it in context: 2238 Those subject to authority should regard those in authority as representatives of God, who has made them stewards of his gifts:43 “Be subject for the Lord’s sake to every human institution. . . . Live as... Read more