In addition to being 1) the exec for Sun Records who gave the world Elvis, Jerry Lee Lewis and Johnny Cash, and 2) the quirky singer who gave us the Indescribable Wow and Martinis and Bikinis, as well as playing the silent femme fatale in Die Hard with a Vengeance, there is also this Sam Phillips, who writes me: Good morning. During the last few months, I’ve been working with some fellow Christendom alums from the video company, Mirandum Pictures, in developing... Read more

One sign of a rapidly aging meme is that it gets applied to all sorts of stuff it has nothing to do with. Recently, some of the Woodstockized folk at America (who have lived 1971 forty times instead of living 40 years since 1971) were calling for Catholics to Occupy the Church and reiterated their hackneyed demands for the Church to Get With It on the normal range of pelvic issues, hostility to Holy Orders and other lefty obsessions. Scott... Read more

So lotsa folk are flipping out about a little document that came out the other day regarding economic justice. Before making my own remarks, let me preface it with this useful bit of analysis that helps you peel away much of the MSM rubbish that tends to glom onto such documents, as well as the freakoutery that tends to form a secondary layer of hysteria from “faithful conservative Catholics” who are only too ready to believe the MSM when the... Read more

from Major Oak Entertainment called “26 Martyrs“. It’s a companion to “All That Remains”. These are the people who did “The 13th Day”, a fine film on Fatima. Read more

…of a mother with cancer willing to lay down her life for her child. St. Gianna Molla, pray for this family. Read more

reminds us that there is healing, forgiveness, and mercy for post-abortive women. Read more

…as a laboratory for social experimentation. Why? Because the military is sworn to obey orders. So while its a dodgy proposition that a leftist authoritarian will get the courts to impose some new experimental regime on free citizens, he can always simply command the military to impose some demented idea on the troops and they *have* to do it cuz it’s orders. However, even the military has its limits. So the Administration’s most recent attempts to say, “Tolerance is not... Read more

A reader echoes the Standard Fallback Approach deployed by far too many conservative Catholic every time some conservative folk hero is questioned: I’m beginning to see a distinct pattern of people conspiring against faithful opinionated Catholics. and Fr. Pavone is just the next one in line. Well, of course then there is Bishop Finn. I pray justice will prevail here. I do not hold out much hope for Fr. Pavone. He ruffled too many “progressive” feathers. I don’t care for... Read more

As you may have noticed, the world failed to re-end again on October 21 after first failing to end on May 21. So how is Harold Camping, the prophetic genius behind all this, responding? Why, by asking for money of course! Sorry, but anybody who loses a nickel to this quack is a sucker of the highest order. How a crank like this can possible look over the wreckage of his life of false prophecies and conclude, “I know what... Read more

A reader writes: Firstly can I thank you and your readers for your prayers, the lady who interviewed me on Tuesday phoned me this morning and asked me to attend a second stage interview on All Saint’s Day, Could I please ask for the intercession of you and your readers that (God Williing) I will be employed very soon. Father, hear his prayer through Christ our Lord! Mother Mary and St. Joseph the Worker, pray for him! Another reader writes:... Read more