Catholic Professionals of Seattle writes: Friends, The 1st Catholic Professionals of Seattle meeting of the year in October was sold-out for Archbishop Sartain!  In addition to being inspiring, he was generous with his time after the event. Membership renewal season continues and tickets for the November 4, 2011 breakfast are available online.  We welcome nationally recognized radio host of Catholic Answers Live and author Patrick Coffin. The title of his talk is “So You Want to Defend the Church?” This... Read more

…of communist and capitalist despotism. So naturally, a lot of our chattering classes hail them as our saviors. Speaking of our chattering classes and their penchant for looking to the Chinese for wisdom, our God King continues his war on the Catholic Church. Read more

A reader writes from Vashon Island: I have a Northwest Catholic Culture announcement that I would appreciate you putting on your blog. The pastor of Saint John Vianney, Father Marc Powell, has adapted Ron Hansen’s novel, Atticus, for the stage. It will be performed at the Blue Heron Arts Center on Vashon Island on November 5 and 6, and Deacon Hansen is making the trip up for the opening and for a Q and A session afterward. Read more

So some nice lady in some little burg in New York can’t, in good conscience, sign a marriage license for a couple of lesbians who want to pretend they are married and who insist that everybody in the universe approve of their narcissistic charade. Nice lady doesn’t want trouble, so she arranges to have somebody else, who doesn’t have a problem playing along with overbearing narcissists, to sign in her stead. Not good enough for the gay fascists who insist... Read more

…on this blog by a dedicated African apostle for the Faith named Godwin Delali Adadzie (but you can call him Gadel). Read more

I have a 16-year-old daughter who is anxious to learn more about apologetics and Church teaching on homosexuality before she leaves for college, where she’ll presumably run into people don’t share her faith and don’t accept its teachings. Also, she hasn’t asked for this, but I see signs that she’s got social doctrine mixed up with Tea Party social doctrine (“;Productive’ people who earn money have an all-but-absolute right to do what they want with it.”), so I’d love something... Read more

(due, in part, to the happy presence of Dale Ahlquist, the American Chesterton Society, and the Chesterton Academy in their environs) is the joyous resurgence of actual argumentation as distinct from the mere quarreling or sound-bite swapping that passes for “debate” in our dumbed-down political discourse. One fruit of this is the Argument of the Month Club, wherein people actually argue (the word means “to clarify”) and people actually think about what is said, weigh the merits, and exercise their... Read more

In which Kevin O’Brien answers the not-altogether-accurate remarks of Bill Donohue as he springs to the defense of Bp. Finn. One of the diagnostic heuristics that I am beginning to employ out of habit is, “Is the person in question being reflexively and unthinkingly defended by a ‘faithful conservative Catholic’ and are those FCCs automatically and without the slightest movement of the gray matter declaring the critic an ‘enemy of the Faith’?”  It’s not a slam dunk proof that there’s a... Read more

A reader writes: Nearly a month ago, I asked for prayers form you and your readers for a little baby named Wyatt, who was in danger of dying. He fought back for weeks, but his doctors have run out of options. All Saints Day would be a wonderful day for a miracle. Wyatt’s mom wrote: “We decided not to put Wyatt on the oscillator as it really isnt the answer to saving Wyatt. He hates it and it prevents us... Read more

…so my blogging (and mail answering) may be spotty this week. Please bear with me. Read more