A priest fails yet again. Till anybody knows anything beyond vague hints, the sound response is prayer for all concerned, especially victims. The good news is the guy was pulled out of circulation. Read more

So some guy robbed some TV evangelist (Mike Murdoch? Never heard of him) and is hawking a book about it. What interests me is how this guy a) plays the penitent in order to hook you on the “Oooh! Give me more salacious details” thing, b) seems to seriously believe that it’s new to normal people that TV Evangelists are not exactly trustworthy, and c) has this intense conviction that this particular two bit showman, whoever he is, presents an... Read more

on the smoke of Satan. I don’t disagree with a word of it. However, as an aside, I recall somebody noting a few years back that it is curious that this toss-off phrase of Paul VI has acquired, for a certain subculture in the Church, all the force and weight of an infallible pronouncement, while actual magisterial teaching from Paul VI is often blown off as worthless. I wonder if anybody has ever made a study of how it is... Read more

Your kid’s school board won’t be illiterate and allow a bureaucrat to fleece the school for a million bucks. Read more

Let’s play Simon Peter Says! Read more

Today my suckups and toadies, we rejoice! For the combox comments are in descending order again. It turns out that there’s a little button labeled “Enable Echo Live” which mentions absolutely nothing about re-arranging the order of the comments. Unclick that feature and wondrous things happen, like normal descending order comments. Grog and fewer torments all around! That is all! Read more

to all my peeps at the Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology and my homies at Blessed S. Read more

needs liver transplant, prayer and $$$. Read more

A reader writes: Thanks for posting this request. Unfortunately, Officer David Moore passed away on Wednesday. He was determined to be brain-dead and was removed from life support after recipients were found to receive donations of his organs, which benefitted nine people. His funeral will be held next week at Conseco Fieldhouse, where the Indiana Pacers play. Going under the assumptions that Officer Moore was Catholic (we attended Catholic high school) and that his basketball-arena funeral likely will not be... Read more

Earlier this week, I posted a note from a reader and Sherry Weddell graciously chimed in with the requested reply. Now the conversation has been picked up on Fr. Longenecker’s blog and on Fr. Z’ blog as well. Sherry replies: But what I find fascinating and so sad at the same time is that almost no one picks up on the main point of my original post: This goes so far beyond a failure to catechize. We are two generations... Read more