We need to get out. Now. Read more

A reader writes: I ask you to pass on prayer requests for neighbors who are enduring awful losses. L and her 2 year old granddaughter, J, died in an accident. Certainly, J is beyond need of our prayers but I would ask prayers for L if she is still in need of them. Still among us on earth, please pray for P, who lost his wife and granddaughter and for D, who lost his mother and daughter. Perhaps most urgently,... Read more

Real vs. Extremely Dodgy: Introducing: The new “app” for iPhone – “Medugorje – Messages from Mary Our Lady of Peace” Like everything else the protagonists put out, they have already determined that the entity of Medjugorje IS the Blessed Virgin Mary, despite their disclaimer that no decision has been made. It claims to have ALL of the messages delivered since 1981. I suspect it will be missing a few of those “messages” – especially the one that lauds Tomislav Vlasic... Read more

…about my own swiftness to judge this judge. He writes: Mark: resolving the issue on the basis of standing might not be the “courageous” answer, but it is the answer that is consistent with the idea of the rule of law that you rightly want to protect. A basic principle of American law is that questions can only be resolved by the courts if they are brought by individuals who themselves have suffered an actual injury caused by the action... Read more

Judge rules against abortion provider St. Bernard girl who sued Planned Parenthood after it gave her an abortion – when she was 14 – without her parents’ knowledge won a major victory even before the case goes to trial Feb. 7. The reader who sent this along knows the judges and says she’s “good people”. Sounds like it. Read more

Happy Feast Day! Reading your essay discussing the Orthodox view of the Immaculate Conception, I think you are either mistaken, or not as clear as you need to be, about what Orthodoxy teaches. Specifically, it’s not that Orthodox don’t believe in original sin; it’s that we have a different understanding of what it means. That is, we agree that it is the result of disobedience and separation from God, and that it is part of the human condition. But, as... Read more

…is that you can pray for the soul of Vlad the Impaler. Read more

In which common sense is spoken to the culture that sees consent as the sole criterion of the Good. Meanwhile, that culture continues to degenerate as a man and his dog find true love. That’s what happens when consent is the sole criterion of the Good. Read more

Attack of the Hackers! Read more

What I make of this. Speaking only as a first impression, I’d say that it demonstrates that Americans are in the grip of a particular sort of heresy that I would call the Schism of Truth and Love. Like all such heresies, it takes crucial aspects of the Faith that cannot be separated and then suppresses one in favor of the other. So just as ancient Docetists pitted Christ’s deity against his humanity, and Arians pitted the Father against the... Read more