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got his transubstantiation groove back. Read more

I will be able to write as wonderfully as John Zmirak. I like his point about having contempt for the devil. We don’t quite know what to do with contempt. We feel it, but we are told (very rightly) that it is a grave sin to direct it at our neighbor. Yet there it is anyway. Zmirak points us to the ancient truth that “we wrestle not with flesh and blood but with powers and principalities”. It is, it seems... Read more

to fix Catholic & Enjoying it combox confusion. My crappy combox software has been retooled by the inconsiderate thugs who provide it in order to pressure me into an upgrade. When I renewed my subscription last month, it automatically changed the comboxes so that the most recent comment is at the top (except for comments in the string following somebody else’s comment). Result: chaos. Can somebody here tell me how to retool the bloody thing so that it posts comments... Read more

I’ll be speaking in Bremerton tonight at Our Lady Star of the Sea parish. Be there. 7:00 PM. Aloha! Read more

Many thanks for the plug for The Thrill! FYI, whenever people ask me what to read in order to learn about Catholic teaching on sexuality, I always recommend Fulton J. Sheen’s Three to Get Married. I recommend it even before recommending my own book. :-O So there you are! Read more

of a zombie apocalypse story. Read more

Please click over to offer your prayers and thanks to this brave and compassionate California mother who is offering assistance to women suffering from hyperemesis gravidarum — a debilitating pregnancy-related disease which effectively renders the mother allergic to the fetus and often leads to termination if proper treatment is not available. In addition to spreading awareness through her blog, she is distributing free books on the disease through her church and local Catholic organizations to crisis pregnancy centers, doctors, and... Read more

As we ponder the words: Begotten, Not Made. Read more

…as an aesthetic, not a moral, issue. It’s the secret thread uniting P.Z. Myers with a vast number of death penalty advocates. Myers talks about how he’s not “afraid” of viewing people as meat, basically stating that because his feelings are numb to the sight of gore in the lab, it is likewise morally acceptable to be immune to the sight of gore in an abortuary (or concentration camp, adds the enthusiastic Dr. Josef Mengele). Likewise, death penalty supporters chatter... Read more