Here’s Slates’ rather contemptuous summary of the brief history of the Tea Parties: http://www.slatev.com/media/swfs/SlateGroupPlayer.swf If you check the fact-checkers in the comboxes over at Slate, you notice that the quick and dirty summary is a bit more dirty than quick. But still, it does tend to ratify the impression that this is a grass roots movement that corporate and political interests are laboring to harness and, shall we say?, “shepherd” in order to manipulate well-meaning people back on to the... Read more

I’m glad they are making this, but it cracks me up that they feel the need to sex it up with the Standard Issue Doubting Postmodern Guy: Rare is the priest in the United States who holds the title of diocesan exorcist. Rarer still is the priest who is the focus of a book on his training as an exorcist, not to mention that the book has inspired the making of a feature film called “The Rite” — starring Anthony... Read more

In the San Francisco universe, it’s just fabulous if a child is raised without either a mother or a father. But don’t you dare give that child a happy meal! Read more

“Is the Only Good Muslim a Bad Muslim?” moderated by Dr. John Zmirak. I wish I could have been there. Read more

“Is the Only Good Muslim a Bad Muslim?” moderated by Dr. John Zmirak. I wish I could have been there. Read more

A reader writes: Lily Cantu was a 20-year-old young woman from Texas who was volunteering with a Catholic missionary group in Peru. She was working at a rehab center for children with facial deformities. Last week, she slipped on a staircase outside of a hostel, fell 3 stories, and died. Please ask your readers to pray for Lily as well as her family and friends during this tragic time in their lives. May her soul and all the souls of... Read more

A reader writes: Lily Cantu was a 20-year-old young woman from Texas who was volunteering with a Catholic missionary group in Peru. She was working at a rehab center for children with facial deformities. Last week, she slipped on a staircase outside of a hostel, fell 3 stories, and died. Please ask your readers to pray for Lily as well as her family and friends during this tragic time in their lives. May her soul and all the souls of... Read more

Speaking of 492, according to the Bible.ca site, in 492 AD, the Great Apostate Church took a huge leap forward when Jerome openly stated that bishops and elders were the same thing in the apostolic age. The truly impressive thing about this event was that Jerome died in 420. I sometimes suspect that almost all fundamentalist Church history consists of friend of a friend rumor regurgitated uncritically by people who assume that their pastor has a charism of infallibility dwarfing... Read more

is a long time fellow Blessed Sacramenter and orthodox Catholic with a Dorothy Day edge. He recently lost his parking attendant job and is chronicling his experience in a blog “Roomin’ House Blues“. The goal is to detail the life of the poor in America. Give him a read. He’s a good egg with a heart for the poor. One of those people you suspect will go straight to heaven when he dies. Read more

An attempt to chip away at the abortion regime. Read more