Here’s a rather hilarious story of Browncoats vs. Brownshirts, a tale of a free speech proponent with a sense of humor in a battle of wits with an unarmed fascist bureaucrat who can’t see what a tinhorn petty dictator she is: On September 12, 2011, Professor Miller posted on his office door an image of Nathan Fillion in Firefly and a line from an episode: “You don’t know me, son, so let me explain this to you once: If I... Read more

prying into your cold remedy purchases, because you are a presumed danger to the state. Meanwhile, elsewhere, our police are being punished by bureaucrats for the sin of behaving like human beings and not like agents of an occupying power. Mike Flynn riffs off some remarks I made some time ago about the growing tendency of the state to abandon the notion that we are moral beings capable of receiving admonishment in favor of the notion that we are cattle. Read more

To contemplate the problem of evil in The Hobbit. Read more

Give me one millllllion dollars or I will continue to post one William Shatner Vocal Stylings video each day! You have been warned! That is all! Read more

People with a cartoonish view of idolatry often tend to talk as though idol worship is something stoopid heads just get up one morning and start doing out of a perverse desire to prostrate themselves before a rock or something. But, in fact, idolatry is typically born out of the deep love of something that is genuinely good and great. It is the best things in the world that become idols, not the worst. Nobody idolizes the band that opened... Read more

In which we discuss how the dogmatic faith commitments of evangelical atheists compel them to not look at evidence for miracles. Almost instantaneously, an atheist shows up in the combox to explain, “Shut up.” Mike Flynn has a serendipitously/providentially relevant post on how our faith commitments (including, especially, those who worship the intellect rather than using it) affect our ability to reason. If you want to see a spectacular example of the sort of hermetically sealed arrogance and ignorance which... Read more

The Usual Coverage from the Grey Lady on recent events in Deutschland. Read more

“As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an evil, then their good becomes indistinguishable from the evil that they set out to destroy.” – Christopher Dawson Read more

After nearly a decade at this URL, Catholic and Enjoying It will be moving to the Patheos site (alongside such fine folk as Elizabeth Scalia, Deacon Greg Kandra, Frank Beckwith and Max Lindenman). The move is prompted by two things: a) the fact that I respect the work that Lizzie Scalia and the gang do and am confident that I will be allowed to continue to express whatever thoughts I like, no matter how stupid (while they bring up the... Read more

A reader writes: i have seen you on ewtn, and have some of your books. thanks for your great work. i just realized that both Fr. Corapi and Fr. Frank Pavone spoke to the people on that fateful day at Notre Dame University, where Pres. Obama was being honored. thought it was interesting to note… i truly hope that things turn out well for fr. frank…..he is a powerful voice for the vunerable and the unborn. i have never seen... Read more