It’s called Coffee and Canticles and it’s all about the Divine Office: how to pray it,  understand it, and enjoy it.   Check thou it out! Read more

When the state decides your organs belong to it, for some reason that reduces trust in a medical establishment that is keen to harvest you and not so keen on waiting until you are, you know, dead to begin. The Welsh still have some time to head off this bit of crony capitalism. Read more

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Mark Your Calendars! At my home parish of Blessed Sacrament in Seattle’s colorful University District, Br. Simon Kim, OP, our resident Dominican student, will be joining Nina Butorac to offer a two-part class on Natural Law in a Utilitarian Society, which will be held in the Parish Hall at 7:00 PM on October 17 and 19. Here’s the little blurb that will appear in this week’s newsletter: Join Br. Simon Kim, OP, and Nina Butorac as they explore the Natural... Read more

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Phil Lawler on Fr. Pavone: This is not a case in which a bishop has set out to squelch pro-life activism. It is a case in which a bishop has realized that a priest and a Catholic apostolate are both in urgent need of supervision. Recognizing this reality may be a difficult process for Father Pavone. Until now, PFL has been his project: his baby. But he cannot continue running PFL the way he has been running it. If the... Read more

People with ‘mild’ forms of autism are more likely to be atheists This is not a huge surprise. Vox Day has made this connection for years. So do other atheists who recognize that much of the atheist subculture seems to have serious trouble with normal affective and social cues. Such atheist get a lot of flack from the rather large segment of the atheist community on line which can see absolutely no problems at all with itself and wonders why... Read more

Our Judicial system, the envy of the world, successfully manages to kill Troy Davis before too much evidence of his possible innocence accrues and public demand to revisit the case creates a big paperwork headache for everybody.  The important thing is that we got somebody killed, not whether or not they, you know, deserved it.  Moloch requires sacrifice and isn’t that picky about who he eats. Update: My pal Secret Agent Man tells me (in the combox) to cool my jets... Read more

…as the economy suffers more punishing blows and the accumulation of our sins and folly continues to unspool. In a democratic capitalist system, we sooner or later get exactly the economy we want and exactly the government we deserve. In a pagan and rapidly de-Christianizing world like ours, the strong increasingly do what they can and the weak increasingly suffer what they must. At the end of the day, the only ones who will care about the poor and weak... Read more

making sure that somebody can’t have a weekly bible study in their home–or the terrorists will already have won! I remember reading stories like this coming out of the Soviet Union and the PRC. Of course, Caesar hasn’t yet reached the point where he invades the home, beats the homeowner and carts him off to re-education camp for the crime of doing what he has every right to do in the privacy of his own castle. He just punishes with... Read more