A reader writes: My son’s fiancee is heading into another CAT scan. She is not recovering as well or as quickly as they had hoped (she was in the er for six hours b/f they got her into surgery. The damn thing burst while she was waiting) If you could keep Kitty in your prayers? Thanks. Father, hear our prayers for Kitty’s complete healing, for compassion and skill from her caregivers, and for grace, peace, consolation and strength for all... Read more

Where I’ll be speaking at Carnegie-Mellon U this evening. Don’t miss it if you can!: CMU Dinner Talk: Mark Shea Monday, October 24, 2011 5:30 PM Stever Hall Dining Room “Drama and the Sacred”. Theatre, broadly considered, has a sacred character, in virtue both of its origins as well as its purpose. Religion likewise of its nature tends to the dramatic. They are related as well as distinct from the perspective of their subject, which is the human “person”, which... Read more

…there are inspiring bishops too. Read more

…till now. After reading Kevin O’Brien’s account, I’m persuaded he must go. At this late date, for a bishop to be this much of a criminally negligent fool is, I think, shockingly inexcusable. What on earth was he thinking? How, after the horrors revealed over the past ten years could he have possibly done such stunningly idiotic things? Bp. Finn: Resign. Read more

In which we recount the tale of my friend Angela and her delightful comic adventures with the wacky folk of “Seattle Clinic Defense”. Read more

In which we discuss how perverters of language have to keep coming up with new words and phrases in order to cover the old lies. Read more

As is the custom for GOP candidates, Cain makes soothing noises for prolifers who, like Charlie Brown and the football, live in the perpetual delusion that Republican candidates regard them as something other than useful suckers.  But when pressed on what he will actually do?  Ahem: MORGAN: By expressing the view that you expressed, you are effectively — you might be president. You can’t hide behind now the mask, if you don’t mind me saying, of being the pizza guy.... Read more

Tyranny disappears from mideast and bounteous flowers of western secular democracy soon to bloom as yet another formerly useful corrupt despot is dispatched in favor of new corrupt regime. Supine anti-war lefties hail wise and just God King for slaying his enemies in his unilateral war for Empire.  Ride in triumphal car down Washington Mall planned to huzzahs of former “anti-war” supporters.  Meanwhile, GOP candidates praise death of Gaddafi while managing never to mention Obama’s involvement, much as the GOP... Read more

Think again. Water is not, in fact, H20. Our reductionist culture will, sooner or later, have to abandon the myth that when you talk about what something is made of, you are talking about what it is. If so simple a thing as water is not merely what it is made of, how much less is a human being subject to the brainless reductionism of the materialist? Read more

I’ll be at Carnegie Mellon U this Monday! Here’s the scoop!: CMU Dinner Talk: Mark Shea Monday, October 24, 2011 5:30 PM Stever Hall Dining Room “Drama and the Sacred”. Theatre, broadly considered, has a sacred character, in virtue both of its origins as well as its purpose. Religion likewise of its nature tends to the dramatic. They are related as well as distinct from the perspective of their subject, which is the human “person”, which is to say, the... Read more