A reader writes: Make sure to read the last paragraph. Longman is a good guy — a secularist, incidentally. Notice too that India tried radical population control measures, and dramatically reduced its fertility rate … but not as much as did Brazil, which tried no pop control measures. It appears that the spread of television dried up the wombs of Brazilians. Like I said, fascinating… What millions of Commie truncheons can only barely achieve by force, Western cademocratic capitalism achieves... Read more

Today, my experimentation fodder, I bid you contemplate what message we should send to our alien friends. That is all! Read more

and I am magically transformed into the image and likeness of Benjamin Harrison: If you are wondering why my image is blurry, it’s because I don’t have my glasses on.  For other changes and transformations, check out the faboo new site! Read more

I’ll be on the radio in Des Moines, IA tonight, but you can listen over the web too: 7:00-8:00 PM (Central).  Radio Interview on “Leonetti in the Evening”, broadcast in KWKY, Des Moines, IA.  Available for streaming here. Read more

Meet Rich Iott. GOP Candidate. Tea Party Darling. And Waffen SS afficianado. As I say in the article, it’s not that these people have such morally obtuse people in their ranks. It’s that they pick them to represent the ranks. Seriously, read the article before jerking the knee and telling me it all just weekend warrior fun and games. There are 300,000,000 American. How is it that clowns like this keep surfacing as the people the Thing that Used to... Read more

Senator Ronan Mullen from the Irish Seanad writes: Dear Mark, You may have heard about this matter already, in which case apologies for taking up your time. This is just a quick email to report a notable success at the Parliamentary Assembly for the Council of Europe in Strasbourg last week. As you can gather from the press release below the Parliamentary Assembly voted in favour of conscientious objection to abortion. The leadership of the EPP group, to which I... Read more

Moses didn’t part the Red Sea… it was a strong wind! Which is, you know, what it says in the Bible. Luckily, Moses happened to be passing by with the Israelites at that time. Because, of course, God never uses secondary causes. Or Christians are dumb. Or Bible-debunkers can’t think or read. Read more

A reader writes: My son is in a novitiate year in an order I would rather not name. By all reports he is doing well and feels that he is definitely being called to live out his vocation as a priest in this order. The problem comes in that my wife, his mother, does not support this at all – and in fact is actively against it in a heartbreaking fashion. It is to the point that she does not... Read more

…some ham-fisted agenda-driven reportage on the latest pretence of women’s ordination. Read more

on the Theology of the Body: • Concupiscence in the West-Schindler Debate • Academic dean echoes criticism of West’s treatment of concupiscence • Reversing the Analogy: Why the Paschal Candle Is Not a Corporal Symbol of the Marital Act • In All Things, Charity Seems like a civilized contribution to the debate to me. Read more