…is a gung ho African Catholic. He is also a busy bee, creating materials like this: Catholic Fiction: Is the Rosary Biblical? from Godwin Delali GADEL on Vimeo. You can find more of his stuff here. Read more

…offends conservative pieties again. Last time, it was his observation that the death penalty should be abolished. Now it is the advocacy of the fact that, since we have already chosen to integrate illegal immigrants into our economy and exploit them, we should also go ahead and make them citizens via the DREAM act. Much high dudgeon in the comboxes about this extremely common sense position, with the usual huff-puffery about how the bishops should only talk about abortion, as... Read more

the all-time favorite mantra of the Catholic Jerk: “I’m not indulging the sin of anger. I’m Jesus overturning the tables of the moneychangers! I’m heroic!” That tends to be the favorite among conservatives. Lefty Christians tend to prefer the appellation “prophetic” for every time they behave rudely. Read more

sends along this vital protection from the eye of the State. Available in children’s sizes. Adult sizes have the words in metallic ink so they show up in the x-ray machine. The whole “We have abuse people in order to stop the ticking time bomb!!!!” thing is looking less appealing now that Caesar has started abusing his citizens. I wonder how long the torture zealots will be able to maintain the cognitive dissonance before they finally admit that “Safety Through... Read more

…for Advent. Read more

bravely face the applause of their peers. Golly! Another art exhibit mocking Jesus on the cross and celebrating gay sex. Who could have predicted it? And gosh! Nothing about Bronze Age Muslim goons stoning homosexuals to death! What a surprising omission from our courageous arts community! Read more

I’ve been teaching Sunday school this year with fourth graders and one of my catechists keeps bringing up the same problem. He says that Jesus was not sinless, because of the cleansing of the temple. I haven’t been able to figure out a satisfactory answer of why this violent act was not a sin. Could you help me out? Thanks and happy Liturgical New Year! I’d start by interrogating the assumption that violence is always a sin. How does your... Read more

I’ve been teaching Sunday school this year with fourth graders and one of my catechists keeps bringing up the same problem. He says that Jesus was not sinless, because of the cleansing of the temple. I haven’t been able to figure out a satisfactory answer of why this violent act was not a sin. Could you help me out? Thanks and happy Liturgical New Year! I’d start by interrogating the assumption that violence is always a sin. How does your... Read more

Reader Kelly Franklin responds to this challenge almost instantly. The Vision of Old Smith(An exercise in obsolete English) When late in Widdendream I strayed Like a Yemeles Hoddypeak,In the sundown twinkle of the Twitter-light Through horizon’s blazing streak,I found myself in a vision-land And a Malagrugrous place.In the Brabble and Freck of the spirit world I espied a nightmare face. Now before ye Kench and mock my tale As the child of a Brannigan,Or the feverish foal of a Bibesy’s... Read more

In which we discover the relationship of the reading on Sunday to just about everything. Read more