The Beloved Cow could use your prayers still. His sore throat is a staph infection. It’s been beaten back with antibiotics but is still there. We go to the doctor for a second course today. Read more

So yesterday, our son Peter comes into my room as I’m tippity-typing and holds up a little brown snowman-looking thing made out of caramel. It has a little hood or bonnet on it that he has pinched out of the caramel, plus a tiny little protrusion of pinched caramel on the front that looks like hands folded in prayer. “Know what this is?” he asks. “No,” I reply, in that tone of voice filled with dread over an impending awful... Read more

THE VOICE THAT PRAISES GLORY Do you hear a music sound from the shriveled brush?In the wreck of summer storms the trees came down,A scrim of broken light that once was lushThe leaves are shriveled, copper gray and brown Listen, hear a voice unrecognized that still recurs,A voice that’s neither chanting bird nor summer cricket,A voice that circles round us in its silver registers –What comely voice is this that carols from the thicket? Listen to my silver cadences, I... Read more

A manly reader reveals the TRVTH about Fatima’s *real* message: Since this pants issue came up, I’ve had a revelation. I’ve noticed that, as I walk down the street, that women have been turning their heads and looking at me. Since the weather is warm here in Southern California, I’ve been wearing short-sleeved shirts. But, it finally dawned on me that my forearms are inflaming the passions of my fellow sisters in Christ. (I’m assuming some of these women are... Read more

A prayer request for your prayer-army: I’m getting married next June, to a wonderful Catholic woman, and we’ll need all the prayers we can get during these next nine months or so of marriage prep, NFP classes, and generally preparing for the Sacrament. Likewise for my best friend Dan, who is getting married next May. Father, hear our prayer for these young couples and grant them marriages and families full of love, joy and life through Jesus Christ our Lord!... Read more

Hi Mark, nothing you won’t already know, of course, but I’ve taken advantage of being rather poorly today – an unusual phenomenon – to sit in bed and hammer out my thoughts on all the nonsense people have been talking here about the Papal visit. I’ve posted them here, in case you’re interested. If my blog weren’t so long neglected I’d post it there too. Also, a question, if I may. A friend of me was discussing having been told... Read more

It’s the new Climate Change, which was the new Global Warming. Read more

…has very good news to report and wishes to thank all of you who prayed for her. Well done, troops! And thanks be to God through our Lord Jesus! Read more

working with might and main to kill as many children as possible with your money. Next up: BILL ESTABLISHES 2-1-1 PHONE NUMBER THAT COULD DIRECT WOMEN TO PLANNED PARENTHOOD AND ABORTION ‘SERVICES’ Read more

Binks writes from the Great Brownshirt North to say: Binks the Webelf Has Been Offlined Again– saith eejits at WordPress: “Warning: We have a concern about some of the content on your blog. Please click here to contact us as soon as possible to resolve the issue and re-enable posting.” A.k.a. Don’t piss off lunatic Muslim MDs obsessed with their names appearing online. Read more