that when you dedicate yourself to slaughter of the most innocent and vulnerable, it can lead to supporting prostitution, and even to fibbing. Your tax dollars at work. Watch this story either a) not get picked up by the MSM at all or b) disappear faster than you can say “The Butcher Kermit Gosnell”. I wonder how long YouTube will allow it to stay up? Read more

Verily, they do rock. Check out the Aggie Catholic blog here. Read more

The Ring and the Cross offers a forum for a bunch of different writers–Christian (including several Catholics), pagan, atheist–to argue about the impact of Christianity on Tolkien’s fiction. Sandra Miesel speaks well of it, so that’s a good sign. Read more

It looks like Fr. Euteneuer might not be so manly and forthright as I supposed. Fr. E. Yesterday: “I must acknowledge, however, that one particularly complex situation clouded my judgment and led me to imprudent decisions with harmful consequences, the worst of which was violating the boundaries of chastity with an adult female who was under my spiritual care.”HLI’s response today: “Since the time of Rev. Euteneuer’s resignation, the Board subsequently learned of additional allegations in connection with his exorcism... Read more

Way to go, French Senate, with the whole rejecting euthanasia thing! Well done! Read more

Rain City Solar. Gotta love the brave and hopeful Perry Como quotation at the bottom of the page. Read more

In which we continue unpacking the extremely dense language of the Creed and discover more treasures that are our birthright. By the way, times are pretty tight for the good folks at CE. If you like what you read there, will you please consider giving them some financial support? They work wonders on almost no budget or staff and could really use the help. Read more

don’t miss John C. Wright’s discussion of why Islam is not exactly famous for producing a bumper crop of science fiction writers. A tradition whose last big contribution was the invention of the zero is a tradition that is in decline. I still think the jury is out on whether Islam is ascendent (as the panicky headlines constantly bray) or is, in fact, extremely brittle and behaving like a sun about to go nova. Radical Islam has never seemed to... Read more

In which the ever-fascinating and fun John C. Wright tackles these musical questions: Does the Left Behind book count as SciFi in your estimation?Do things that are heavily influenced by religion like Dune, Star Wars, Battlestar Galactica, and others count as being religious in nature? What are you doing reading me? This guy is way more interesting! Read more

A reader writes: Thank you for your concern and prayers for my brother in Cairo. After 10 days of no communication due to Mubarak shutting down the Internet, I received an email from him this morning. He is well, but under some typical circumstances for Cairo right now. He is under curfew 3pm to 8 am. and only goes out for daily Mass in the morning. He can hear sporadic gunfire most of the day, but does feel somewhat safe... Read more