A reader writes: I have been enjoying your blog for some years now and it has become one of the pleasures of my day to see what you’re up to. Would you help me with a question I and my wife have been wrestling with? Enoch and Elijah were assumed into Heaven. How is this possible since they were subject to the old covenant, the law, and Christ had not yet died, risen and ascended thereby opennig Heaven to us.... Read more

My name is Corrie and I’m contacting you on behalf of the St. Francis Mission in St Francis, South Dakota. I work with the St. Francis Mission to let bloggers, podcasters and webmasters know about the mission and its work among the Lakota (Sioux Indian). I found Catholic & Enjoying it via the Catholic Blogroll and I wanted to introduce myself and let you know about the mission. St. Francis is a ministry of the of the Society of Jesus... Read more

Today, my minions, I bid you contemplate the fact that Abe Vigoda is still not dead: Indeed, he and Betty White seem to be eerily immortal: I suspect this may be due to their secret labs full of formulae distilled from the blood of innocent victims burked at the full moon. We Dark Lords (and, come on, these two obviously fit the bill) maintain such facilities as standard operating procedure. Food for thought. That is all! Read more

…it matters who is saying it. Case in point: The proposition that America hasn’t improve much over past three decades. If it were some hyperventilators on Talk Radio talking about how America is going down the toilet because of Obama and the left running us into the ground, most Righties would be cheering. Hell yes! Not only has America not improved, it’s going to hell in a handbasket and may require “second amendment remedies”! Why just last week we were... Read more

A word of thanks to a man who saved my life long ago. Read more

They successfully extubate her and she is now on an oxygen mask. Still very far to go and she is very sad and angry. But it’s a step. Please continue to pray. Thank you, Father, for her excellent progress so far. Please continue helping her to heal through your Son Jesus Christ. Mother Mary, please pray for her and for the whole Bernhoft clan! Read more

tackles the “Can people not in visible union with the Church be saved?” question. The short answer is “Yes.” Comboxers who dislike the short answer and who feel a strange longing to make sure as few people as possible are saved get upset at Fr. Z, that damned liberal, as well as policing other readers to make sure they do not commit the grave sin of Hope. The curious notion that the sacraments were intended as reducing valves to keep... Read more

…is not the story (woman to marry herself). It’s not even her statement: “It’s not that I’m anti-marriage. I just hope that I can express a different idea within the bounds of a tradition.” (by which she means “I just hope to do something that utterly and completely perverts the entire idea of marriage even *more* than gay ‘marriage’ does, if that were possible”). No. It’s this combox gripe: “this is old news !! try something new !!” Read more

from glory to glory to glory. It’s gonna be a well-earned bloodbath. I keep thinking of that Simpson’s episode where they go to the Democrat convention and the signs read “We Hate Life And Ourselves” and “We Can’t Govern”. (Of course, the signs at the GOP convention read, “We Want What’s Worst For Everyone” and “We’re Just Plain Evil”. Speaking of which, a word about my exceedingly low view of politics, ocassioned by my bleats of complaint last week about... Read more

Which is why Planned Parenthood hates stuff like this. Read more