This just came over the transom and does not appear to be a joke: I just wanted to share with you an innovative approach to building your body and strengthening your faith has arrived in select bookstores across North America. Toronto-based personal trainer Michael Carrera has officially launched The Catholic Workout – an easy-to-follow, yet effective workout program that pairs faith with fitness by combining praying the rosary with resistance training exercises. The program involves five specific exercises that focus... Read more

A reader writes: It occurs to me that the pants game provides the perfect retort to the Shi’ite Catholics. “Judge me by my pants, do you? Pants matter not!” And yet, funnily enough, they appear to matter a great deal, judging by the 300+ comments that I got and the 200+ that Simcha got before she closed down her comments. I *suspect* that obsessiveness over pants is a classic case of transference: people focus on this utterly trivial thing because... Read more

Some thoughts about subsidiarity: the first is that in so many cases it is “I” who can just manage the issue. I can take care of my brother or sister in need. The more this level of subsidiarity occurs in one’s life, the more likely the individual will spend less time fretting about “big government social programs” and instead be glad there’s something else out there to help these folk who are invading his heart. Subsidiarity makes sure that the... Read more

In which we take a look at one of the most mysterious of Jesus’ parables–and discover that he may well have a sense of humor like Douglas Adams. Read more

…comes this tidbit: Right, we’re selling $60 billion worth of advanced weapons to the country most of the 9/11 hijackers came from because our régime (Israel really) now hates Iran. (I guess that ‘Ayatollah A**ahola’ T-shirt’s back in style.) Game plan: keep yammering about the Ground Zero mosque and maybe the proles won’t notice. It does seem to be rather majoring in minors to strain at the gnat of the Ground Zero Mosque while swallowing the camel of handing $60... Read more

kicketh off today! Go be part of one of the most powerful witnesses for life in the world! Read more

Today, my minions, I bid you learn the Hogwarts School Song! “Hogwarts, Hogwarts, Hoggy Warty Hogwarts,Teach us something please,Whether we be old and baldOr young with scabby knees,Our heads could do with fillingWith some interesting stuff,For now they’re bare and full of air,Dead flies and bits of fluff,So teach us things worth knowing,Bring back what we’ve forgot,just do your best, we’ll do the rest,And learn until our brains all rot.” H/T: The invaluable John C. Wright That is all! Read more

Scott Carson laments: Today, as I look through the sources of “conservative thought” available on the Internet, TV, and radio, I find that the likes of Glenn Beck, Sarah Palin, and Andrew Breitbart make the John Birch Society look like Plato’s Academy by comparison. The capacity to communicate the conservative stance by means of intellectual disquisition and rational argumentation has vanished, only to be replaced by the same sort of shrill, knee-jerk bigotry that characterizes so much of the left.... Read more

My friend Ella Preece, in addition to being an archer with an actual bow made in Nottingham, *and* in addition to having a very cool Dad who is a mild-mannered University professor whose secred identity is “Mad Morris Dancer”, once again demonstrates her sheer awesomeness by juggling for the Pope on the BBC. I bask in her reflected glory. Read more

As I suspected was going to be the case, the sheer contrast between the actual Pope Benedict and the cartoon villain painted by the bigots in Brit media proved a huge advantage in making his visit to the UK a revelation and a joy, not only for UK Catholics, but for lots and lots of people who, to their surprised, loved the man they saw. Indeed, the Chattering Classes were so stunned that they actually bestirred themselves to use their... Read more