is the burning issue on the blog this AM. On the former incarnation of CAEI, I had a little gif of Bugs Bunny in an army helmet that somehow seemed to capture something of what I was trying to do (basically, make smart alec remarks about stuff, and get a certain amount of flak for it). Bugs naturally endeared himself to my readers and so some folk have missed him dearly since The Move. I thought about bringing him over,... Read more

The Canticle of the Sun Most high, all powerful, all good Lord! All praise is yours, all glory, all honor, and all blessing. To you, alone, Most High, do they belong. No mortal lips are worthy to pronounce your name. Be praised, my Lord, through all your creatures, especially through my lord Brother Sun, who brings the day; and you give light through him. And he is beautiful and radiant in all his splendor! Of you, Most High, he bears... Read more

The Soft Totalitarians in our Neighbor to the North are attempting to tighten their grip by labeling “going to Mass” as “cultic activity” and trying to punish somebody for not knuckling under to the jealous god who is Caesar. I hope sane Canadians stamp their feet and shout “Enough!” while they still have time. Read more

a former atheist and convert to the Catholic faith has fun chewing over the embarrassing attempt of secularism to cobble a coherent moral philosophy out of the remaining rags and sticks stolen after the vandalism of the Christian tradition. I propose the following arguments: If secularism is true, all thoughts and ideas are manmade. Moral standards are thoughts and ideas. Thus, moral standards are manmade. Manmade standards are subjective. Subjective means “based on a human authority” which means, the standard... Read more

A Letter from Catholic Courses Executive Director Joseph Pearce Dear Friends, It is my pleasure to announce our latest initiative, Catholic Courses! My passion for this project is rooted in experience. At a point of crisis in my life, I began reading the spiritual classics and great saints. I also discovered more recent Christian writers such as Chesterton, Belloc, Lewis and Tolkien. Although I never had a college education, these great saints, scholars and artists brought me to understand the... Read more

decide to play with the corpse of marriage some more, just for grins and giggles. No fault divorce was the bullet to the brain of marriage. Gay ‘marriage’ is just a ploy to legally punish people (namely, the Catholic Church) for failure to believe and profess anything less than the utter gloriousness of homosex since the credo of the Gay Brownshirt Movement is “Tolerance is not enough. You. MUST. Approve!” But this latest move feels like idle experimentation, like King... Read more

Secular Messianic Realpolitik Caesar: 0 “On March 5, 2003, Pope John Paul II sent the Italian Cardinal, Pio Laghi, to intervene with President George W. Bush and ask him not to invade Iraq and overthrow Saddam Hussein, but the US leader rejected the appeal claiming he was ‘convinced it was God’s will'” — When Bush put John Paul II’s letter on the side table without opening it. “Cardinal Laghi told Bush that three things would happen if the United States... Read more

Not the Onion: “‘Al-Qaida has sent a message to the Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, asking him to stop spreading conspiracy theories about the 9/11 attacks.’ Read more

A reader writes: I was in an argument with my brother who is an atheist, who was arguing that none of the writings in the New Testament could have been written by the Apostles, because they were illiterate fishermen. I was wondering if you had any thoughts or knew about any resources concerning this topic of New Testament authorship. I address notions like that in this piece: It is worth noting that the *evangelists* are not always the same as... Read more

A reader writes: A couple weeks ago I sent you a prayer request for little Sammy, desperately sick with e-coli poisoning. Here is the latest update from his Mom, as of last Saturday. Pretty wonderful news! (You had told me the story of Bishop Sheen’s miracle, which I heard in detail shortly after that on Sacred Heart radio. So I invoked his aid for Sammy. At any rate, praise God for His blessings and thank you to your gentle readers... Read more