I enjoy your articles and books. I have a question for you. I am currently taking deaconate formation classes and have been teaching a Bible study at my parish for 6 years now (yes I am a convert). I previously tried to use the New Jerome’s biblical commentary but found many teachings that worried me in orthodoxy so I stopped. I did more research and found that the authors/editors had played big and honored roles during V2 but later were... Read more

is that Planned Parenthood has scored 20 million in federal taxpayer money to peddle their wares and promote the culture of death in Northwest public schools, all in the name of adolescent health. So happy to pay taxes. Read more

Ouch. The New York Times takes a slightly bemused look at the Convention of Napoleon Dynamites with a Mean Streak as they deliberate on just how big a jerk each of them should be in the public square. The consensus is that the human creatures among which they move would really respond well to their being great big jerks. Chris Cooney attempts to speak to them from the vantage point of the perspective of the socially and emotionally normal community,... Read more

A reader writes: Some parents in the Archdiocese of Indianapolis have created an online petition to submit to Archbishop Daniel Buechlein and to the USCCB. The petition’s title is “Catholics in Support of Rice Host Option for Communion“. While the largest number of signatures are those of people living in the Archdiocese of Indianapolis and the Diocese of Lafayette-in-Indiana, which begins just north of the Indianapolis city limits, there are signers from all over the country. I think that this... Read more

Please continue praying for our friend Lorna (aka Dierdre). She has developed pneumonia but they are beating it back with drugs. They have to operate on her neck tomorrow and they still haven’t taken out the breathing tube, which she hates. She is in some pain and has had trouble sleeping due to anxiety and discomfort. On the bright side, she can communicate and is lucid enough to get jokes, which is a good sign. Also, she has feeling and,... Read more

In which we ponder the apparent waste of time and space that God loves to indulge. Read more

The invaluable Mike Flynn offers education to materialist technicians who, yet again, attempt the absurd project of persuading you to freely accept the notion that you have no freedom of the will. I think anybody who has chosen to make themselves that stupid is probably, apart from a work of grace, too stupid to see Flynn’s point. But it’s a special kind of stupid, born not in the intellect but, ironically, in the will. People will go very far in... Read more

This time: Janet Smith replies to Alice von Hildebrand. Read more

This looks to be so awful in so many different kinds of ways. My only real hope is that Steve Greydanus reviews it. That should be fun! Read more

Negri suggests that it’s okay to sterilize people with Down’s Syndrome with their consent. Fisher disagrees strenuously. She’s right. Read more