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It’s all very scientific and wrapped in promises of health for Generation Narcissus, but it boils down to manufacturing humans so that they can be cannibalized. It’s not as crude as the Dahmer Oral Method of Tissue Harvest, but it’s every bit as morally repellent. Read more

For all you Tolkien fans. Read more

A few months back, George Weigel wrote a column about the phenomenon of the anti-Catholic Catholic on the Left. It is a familiar narrative and quite true. There are, on the Left, numerous voices (one thinks of Maureen Dowd, James Carroll, numerous contributors to the Reporter and so forth) who regard the teaching of the Church–notably with respect to the Pelvic Issues with contempt and who labor to attack the Church and the Magisterium on a number of points pertaining... Read more

You. MUST. Approve or You Will Be Severely Punished by the Arbiters of Correct Thought! Read more

A reader writes: I am asking (yet again) for the prayers of you and your ever gracious readers. Today, my husband and I looked at a house. We are blessed enough that we will be able to buy it, outright, provided we are able to work out a suitable offer with the bank and close by the end of the year. But this isn’t just a house. It’s a duplex that will allow us to move my parents out of... Read more

…I don’t think the sense that something is deeply wrong with our society is wrong. As Caelum et Terra points out: The top one per cent of Americans own forty-two per cent of all wealth, while the richest twenty per cent hold eighty-seven per cent of the country’s wealth. Furthermore, the richest 11,000 American households have more income than the bottom 25 million households (over 75 million Americans.) According to Forbes magazine, during eight years of the Bush administration, the... Read more

I’ve changed the blog so it gives the whole text instead of a summary for those on a feed. I want to see if there’s an appreciable drop in traffic. If so, it’s back to the summary since my blog lives on click-throughs. If not, well since some readers are begging for the whole post and not a summary, and I’m trying to oblige. I am rather skeptical that clicking through is *that* hard. Read more

A reader writes: Please pray for the health of my very elderly father-in-law, who will be undergoing surgery for colon cancer October 8th, and that his children may all be reconciled to him before he dies, and that if he should die, that God grant him a happy death. Father, hear our prayer through your Son Jesus Christ. Mother Mary, pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death. Another reader writes: A new person came to... Read more

In which I try to collect and summarized my thoughts on recent conversations about the matter. Read more