Hey! Big News! Manalive will finally get its world premiere and become available for sale! Dale Ahlquist, President of the American Chesterton Society and Executive Producer of Manalive gives the skinny: Attention! The 31st Annual G.K. Chesterton Conference will be Aug. 2-4, 2012, at the Silver Legacy Hotel (and Casino) in Reno, Nevada. It will be the 100th anniversary of Chesterton’s novel, Manalive. To celebrate, we will be showing the world premiere of the movie, “Manalive”, directed by Joey Odendahl... Read more

…is on the air! It’s a group blog by a mix of twenty-something Catholics who are on fire for the Faith, raring to go, and very fetching witnesses to the gospel of Christ in cyberspace. Lovely and heartening to see. Plus, any blog with contributors named “Trouty”, “Zoey Nova” and “Cherie” (among others) automatically has my vote. Go Team! Read more

has a Tale of the Unexplained. Dunno what happened, but I do believe in a) angels and b) miracles, so I figure anything is possible. Anyway, I’m glad they are okay. Read more

The Pro-Abort Brownshirts will be out in force at the Madison Clinic and the 40DFL folks who will be there to pray could really use your support in the face of the screaming, threats, and intimidation: Hi 40 Days for Life friends, I’m emailing you personally to ask you for a favor. The group called “Seattle Clinic Defense” is planning on having 3 protests during our fall campaign for 40 Days for Life (I have linked the 3 Facebook events... Read more

illustrates the fact that you should always take off 50 IQ points whenever the MSM deals with religion. To wit: With several new English-language Bible translations that have been published in recent years — including ones that use gender-neutral and conversational language — it might be said that Americans are tired of reading the King James-style Bible of yore. But a survey of Bible readers released Friday says that Americans largely prefer literal translations of the books’ original Greek and... Read more

I’ll be there! Conference to Explore Scripture and Tradition Renowned speakers to discuss role of Sacred Tradition in the Catholic Church STEUBENVILLE, OHIO—A unique partnership of Scripture and Tradition awaits the attendees of the Ninth Annual Deep in History Conference, October 21-23, 2011, at the Hilton Easton in Columbus, Ohio. The conference explains how Scripture and Tradition are indispensable in increasing one’s knowledge of God. It also traces the role of Tradition in the teachings of the New Testament and... Read more

…to the producers of a new batch of Bible films. Hear, hear!  The field is fraught with possibility and peril.  I, for one, think Spielberg could make a fine film on Moses if he can just restrain his need to bring Daddy Issues into it. Oh, can I just add that Steve’s counsel to “question skepticism” is good advice for postmoderns generally when it comes to the Judeo-Christian tradition?  It’s not that postmoderns are hard-boiled skeptics.  Far from it.  They... Read more

Eternal rest, grant him, Father, through Christ our Lord. Read more

A reader writes: I’d like to request prayer for an 81 year old man who is dying of renal failure, congestive heart disease and pulmonary fibrosis. He has been arguing with me about the existence of God for over 30 years. When I read a post by Julie at Happy Catholic about talking to her dad and getting him to promise that if he saw Jesus reaching out to him in the moment of his death to reach back and... Read more

Both Ross Douthat at the New York Times and Andrew Sullivan at the Daily Beast link to a piece I wrote for the Register on whether Evolution (specifically polygenism) constitutes a threat to Catholic theology. Not a common experience for me. The remarkable thing is that they both agree with me contra the flat-footed atheist fundamentalist Jerry Coyne that the story of the Fall is not supposed to be read as a newspaper account and they basically grok the fact... Read more