Today we’re launching a unique music + charity campaign with Portland singer-songwriter Stephanie Schneiderman at YAWMA and we’d love for you to check it out.  Stephanie is using our new platform called FanIt to offer fans some great music and really exciting opportunities, all with 40% of donations going to Mercy Corps, Horn of Africa Relief.  For 7 days only, she is offering digital downloads of her new album Rubber Teardrop, recently featured on USAToday and called ‘human experience in... Read more

has a nifty little piece on Hildegard of Bingen over at First Things. Read more

A reader writes: Please pray for my son who is in Okinawa serving with the U.S. Marine Corps. Please pray that he will be able to return on leave to be present when his first born child is born. I am asking in particular, the intercession of Servant of God, Father Vincent Capodanno, the Grunt Padre. Thank you, Mark … from this mom who has not seen her son in 19 months but was hoping to be with him next... Read more

Ed Peters offers a roundup of his typically balanced and nuanced perspective regarding the canonical aspects of the situation. Joan Frawley Desmond does her usual sterling job of reporting on it, while the comboxes are… unedifying. Dr. Gerard Nadal brings joy to my heart in various ways. First, he offers a sane reply to some crazy new site called “Free Fr. Pavone”, by pointing out that Fr. Pavone is not imprisoned, that the priesthood is not a prison, and that... Read more

Another atheist tries to ground his morality in something besides God. Read more

on the death of his sister, Ruthie. May her soul and all the souls of the faithful departed, through the mercy of God, rest in peace. And may all who loved her meet merrily again one day in the light of Christ where he will wipe away every tear. Read more

“Over 30,000 British schoolchildren, some as young as three, have had their names registered on a government database and branded “racist” or “homophobic” for using playground insults”. No. Really. In the words of Kathy Shaidle: “Come back, Luftwaffe. All is forgiven.” Read more

One of the various projects I’ve been working on over the past several months has been the MSS of an upcoming book called The Work of Mercy: Being the Hands and Heart of Christ. It’s a look at the corporal and spiritual works of mercy aimed at reintroducing them to a modern and postmodern audience. It’ll be out from Servant in December/January. Anyway, I got word from them today that they want to release an audiobook version and, bum ba... Read more

Allow homosexuals to donate blood? What could it hurt? Medics Infect 23 Children With HIV After Giving Them Contaminated Blood Transfusions In India? How were we supposed to know? However, given the vital importance of affirming the greatness and goodness of homosexuality, I expect this policy will continue. What’s more important? The precious sense of self-esteem of the most narcissistic community on planet Earth, or the common good? HT: Acts of the Apostasy Read more

Some time ago, Tom Kreitzberg formulated the above, stating: Whenever a person appeals to quantum physics as the basis for a theological or religious principle, he is making an ass of himself. The latest demonstration of this principle (or perhaps a corollary of it) is found in the National Catholic Reporter, in which the following bafflegab appears: …Judy Cannato’s thoughts on morphic resonance from her book The Field of Compassion came to mind. Now, Rupert Sheldrake’s biological theory that “like... Read more