to blather about geocentrism and make the Church look silly to local (and if all goes well for them) national news media. Indeed, somebody has already tipped off Sullivan, who loses no time in describing these quacks as “uber-Catholic“. Perfect pinatas for the Make Fun of the Church crowd. Sadly, nobody appears to be presenting a paper on how Einstein led to the priest abuse scandal. Sad. The Fall of the Pink Einstein is one of my favorite pieces of... Read more

“Wade St. Onge” is a very cool name. Second, he has some interesting things to say about the current furor over the Theology of the Body. Read more

Here’s a story from China. Turns out the Chinese, who just the other day were having second thoughts about their stupid and evil one child policy, are now embracing Christian chastity-based sex ed. Meanwhile, the sex-obsessed West continues to de-christianize. Reminds me of this: There was a householder who planted a vineyard, and set a hedge around it, and dug a wine press in it, and built a tower, and let it out to tenants, and went into another country.... Read more

The annual Pumpkin Hurl with trebuchets is this weekend! Here’s some of the details and the website: All contestant teams build and bring their own hurling machines and will stop at nothing to go the highest, fastest and farthest. One of the most impressive devices in years past has been world record setter Trebarbaric, a massive, 55-ft tall, medieval-style trebuchet that can catapult pumpkins distances nearly half a mile! Once the world record-holder, that record is now held by a... Read more

A reader writes: My wife and I were watching “Hoarders” last night on TLC and they showed several commercials for their upcoming series “Sister Wives” about a Mormon polygamous family. While not the first show on polygamy, I noticed a different theme in the commercial that may or may not play out in the actual series. Most shows or movies about polygamy focus on the domination of women by the women, the exploitation of young girls in these communities, and... Read more

weighs in on the “communion and abortion supporter pols” issue. Meanwhile, Archbishop Burke, who literally wrote the book on Canon 915, has been elevated to the No. 5 guy in the Church. Expect some changes on the whole Episcopal Spine Alert front. I’d love to see the day when Joe Biden or Nancy Pelosi sashay up to the front of the line with that smug look on their faces and are given a polite blessing and asked to return to... Read more

Today Now!: How To Thrust Your Fat Into A More Appealing Shape The Onion has a long way to go before it enters the Third Millennium and starts to celebrate instead of ridicule Jolly Pride. I am outraged–OUTRAGED!!!! Read more

A reader writes: I have been familiar with your blog and other work for close to ten years, and I appreciate the fact that you are still at it. It appears that I am about to start a blog with the dual purposes of(1) providing a place for me to publish reflections on Catholic poets and poetry, and perhaps bring a few of my own poems before readers, and(2) providing a place for my wife, an artist, to make photographs... Read more

A reader writes: My cousin Debbie is on life support with swelling on the brain after suffering a heart attack on Monday. She is in her late 40s and has Down Syndrome. The family is deciding whether to remove life support. Please pray that God may guide them in this. Thanks … Father, hear our prayer for wisdom and do what is best here for all concerned through your Son Jesus Christ. Mother Mary, pray for them! Read more

The News: VATICAN CITY, 16 SEP 2010 (VIS) – The Holy Father appointed Bishop James Peter Sartain of Joliet in Illinois, U.S.A., as metropolitan archbishop of Seattle (area 64,269, population 5,141,000, Catholics 964,000, priests 313, permanent deacons 104, religious 551), U.S.A. The archbishop-elect was born in Memphis, U.S.A. in 1952, he was ordained a priest in 1978 and consecrated a bishop in 2000. He succeeds Archbishop Alexander J. Brunett, whose resignation from the pastoral care of the same archdiocese the... Read more