Contraception could be free under health care law. What I love about this is that nobody really quite knows, including the people who passed the law. The headline could just as easily read, “Execution of 1/3 of all left-handed people could be free under health care law”. That’s kind of the problem of passing gigantic expensive laws that nobody understands. Read more

for the St. Catherine of Siena Institute, who are going great guns in California these days! Read more

This just came in over the transom: During the month of November we remember in a special way the Holy Souls in Purgatory. From the beginning the Church has offered prayers and Masses for the Holy Souls. Many saints have been particularly aware of the sufferings of the Holy Souls and performed great penances on their behalf—including Padre Pio, St. Faustina and Blessed Father Stanislaus Papczynski, founder of the Marians. If you’d like to increase your own love for, and... Read more

…watery secularism meets Islamic sturdiness and feels attracted to a serious moral code and the imposition of a life of discipline on the pointless post-modern meandering of souls lost in space.We shouldn’t really be surprised by this. Atheists like to bray about being rational beings who boldly determine their own reality, etc. But the truth is that a society that lapses into godlessness usually winds up retching in the alley behind the bar and then going home to the tawdry... Read more

…watery secularism meets Islamic sturdiness and feels attracted to a serious moral code and the imposition of a life of discipline on the pointless post-modern meandering of souls lost in space.We shouldn’t really be surprised by this. Atheists like to bray about being rational beings who boldly determine their own reality, etc. But the truth is that a society that lapses into godlessness usually winds up retching in the alley behind the bar and then going home to the tawdry... Read more

Obama no longer thinks of fellow Americans as enemies.Meanwhile, Biden holds a rally in his home state and 200 show.And elsewhere inside the Dem Bunker, they are drinking schnapps and observing, not so much All Soul’s as the Gotterdammerung. La Pelosi, beloved by Independents, is assuming her mantle as Theologian to the Legislators by leading the Democrats in a study of St. Thomas Aquinas and St. Augustine on how lying about the Church’s teaching on abortion is related to the... Read more

A reader writes: Would you please pray for a priest, isolated and lonely, who is depressed over the way some of his brother priests and their bishop have treated him.  Thanks! Father, hear our prayer for your  son and servant, that he may overcome this depression and find faith, hope, peace, and love through Christ our Lord.  Amen!  Mother Mary, pray for him! Read more

A reader writes: Would you please pray for a priest, isolated and lonely, who is depressed over the way some of his brother priests and their bishop have treated him.  Thanks! Father, hear our prayer for your  son and servant, that he may overcome this depression and find faith, hope, peace, and love through Christ our Lord.  Amen!  Mother Mary, pray for him! Read more

Here’s a good analysis of the most toxic form the End to Evil project has assumed in the past decade or so. And they’ll all be back tomorrow, remembering everything and learning nothing.  Tomorrow’s election will not change one thing.  The only good thing it will do is set the two forms of secular messianism at each other’s throats for a while.  But eventually one will triumph and then they will begin indulging the itch to.. to… *do* something to... Read more

Here’s a good analysis of the most toxic form the End to Evil project has assumed in the past decade or so. And they’ll all be back tomorrow, remembering everything and learning nothing.  Tomorrow’s election will not change one thing.  The only good thing it will do is set the two forms of secular messianism at each other’s throats for a while.  But eventually one will triumph and then they will begin indulging the itch to.. to… *do* something to... Read more