Yes, if it’s Audrey Assad singing Springsteen: If you aren’t familiar with her work, you really should be. Here’s another favorite of mine: The girl’s got a gift. Read more

by telling you, in essence, that if lots of babies are born on one side of the world, while millions on the other side of the world are being gassed and shoveled into ovens, then more babies means “less violence”. His real agenda: “See! Atheistic secularism isn’t so bad!” Zac Alstin does the autopsy on this wooly-minded attempt to pretend the 20th century was not the Century of Slaughter. Read more

Seems like a worthy cause to me. Of such grass roots faithful efforts was the Benedictine movement made. And that helped save civilizatoin in the West. You could do worse than help save civilization. Not only have I never offered remedies for the condition of liberal modernity, it has been part of my case that there are no remedies. The problem is not to reform the dominant order, but to find ways for local communities to survive by sustaining a... Read more

Cut and pasted from a FB page (of a “conservative Christian”, natch): “I would waterboard a 5 year old girl if it could save American lives.” Disgusting. Read more

Watch and wince: That this guy is taken seriously as presidential material says–yet again–all you need to know about the degraded state of the Thing that Used to be Conservatism. Libya. That’s that foreign country where we supported the…. rebels? Against… Gaddaffi? Right? Read more

named Huntsman and Paul, the entire field of GOP candidates revealed themselves to be brutal, dishonorable and stupid cowards who only want to continue further on the path toward lawless despotism their predecessors have blazed. Best summation of the evil contradiction at the heart of the Thing That Used to Be Conservatism: “”Paul remark goes at heart of contradiction of modern conservatism: Government is only infallible when it kills people.” Back when conservatives were skeptical about giving the state unlimited... Read more

That this reckless and unstable man could ever have been taken seriously, much less be anointed yet another unassailable Folk Hero and a spiritual guide and source of wisdom by conservative Catholics is just more confirmation of the stunning lack of discernment that troubles this increasingly troubled subculture in the Church. HT: Caelum et Terra Read more

Fortunately, it was just a Catholic priest, so no big deal. They are basically human punching bags so it’s okay to treat them like crap. All forward-thinking people know this. Read more

Turns out that when you torture people, foreign governments refuse to extradite them–because you tortured them and the “evidence” you obtained is inadmissible. Duh. It also turns out that the brutal cowards and draft dodgers who authorize the torture are afraid to go abroad lest they get Pinocheted as the war criminals they are. Read more

Here’s a curious article about how the rabid secularization of once-Catholic Quebec is endangering the local forms of blasphemy that are based on Catholic images and ideas. It’s as clear a demonstration as you could ask for that blasphemy is always parasitic on the sacred. Find the Word You Must Not Say and you have found the thing a culture holds sacred. When the blasphemies no longer offend, the thing blasphemed is no longer sacred. Thus, both the F word... Read more