…and Abp. Chaput hits it clean out of the park! Read more

Bishop Gassis of the Sudan has a relief fund for the immense humanitarian crisis there (which the Pope has urged us to help relieve). The great thing about this particular relief fund is that they have one of those cool matching grant thingies that kicks in money when you do, thus allowing you to get, as it were, more bang for the buck, more rubble for ruble. Go and kick in some dough. Read more

A reader writes: Would you please pray for the intercession of Blessed Fr. Joseph Gerard, OMI, for a very brave young man overseas? My nephew has just been diagnosed with cholangiocarcinoma (cancer of the bile duct) and has been given a year at most, with chemo, and a few months without. He was born deaf and grew up needing pins in his legs every few years because of a condition of the bones. He also has growths under his skin;... Read more

Once upon a time, I had an alcoholic friend. We’ll call him “Newt”. Newt drank so much he ruined not one but two marriages and is now on his third. (In the midst of destroying his family twice, he also anointed himself High Commissar of Righteousness in attacking another alcoholic named “Bill” for his addictions. It was a pretty repulsive act of hypocrisy.) Eventually, “Newt” called on his Higher Power, became Catholic, and his sins were forgiven. This is our... Read more

…except for the title. It should be “What Herman Cain Can’t Say, But I Can”. The reason Cain can’t say it is that he might be, you know, actually guilty of sexual harrassment (and if he is, he should pay the same price Clinton should have paid). But whether he is or not, the press is still revealed to be a pack of hypocrites and sensationalists with a ridiculously biased agenda. Not that that’s news or anything. Read more

Jerk who claims to defend Muslims from Catholic University being Catholic is told to take a hike–by Muslims. The jig is up. Read more

Meanwhile, now Gingrich, our Super-Intelligent Serial Adulterer and Spokesman for Traditional Marriage, seems to surging a bit as the latest NotRomney, while Cain flounders around with the sexual harrassment stuff and the fact that he is just now figuring out that China has the Bomb. But at the end of the day, it will be the Rich Android and we’ll all be told how vital it is to support him because he’s sooooo prolife. One thing I am grateful for:... Read more

Go outside. Look east. Behold the awesomeness of a Harvest Moon and the Planet Jupiter. Praise God. Lather, rinse, repeat. My beautiful Celtic bride said, “Some might almost think it’s a kissin’ moon.” We went outside and checked. Turns out it is. Read more

Another cool bit of evidence to add to the converging and convincing lines of evidence for basic evolutionary theory. Read more

Because it’s a place where Muslim cabbies can get together to save a Jewish bagel shop and promise to keep it kosher. Seriously, there’s something deeply American about this story and something even more deeply New York about it. Somehow I’m reminded of Chesterton’s remark, “The real American is all right; it is the ideal American who is all wrong.” Read more