A reader writes: A woman who has been undergoing fertility treatments and recently finally got pregnant has been having relationship troubles and now has made an appointment to abort her child, probably in the hopes that this will “win back the boyfriend”, which of course never happens.This “boyfriend”, I hear, is a deadbeat she would be better off without.Could you pray that this woman sees this child as the best thing that could come out of this situation? Father, hear... Read more

on how the Greens went from being hungry rebels and skeptics to establishment know-it-all and particularly clueless tyrant wannabes. Leviathan has a peculiar talent for poisoning and corrupting all it touches. I am reminded again of my reader’s wonderful description of workings of the seven basic elements of Big Science: Time, Space, Matter, Energy, Power, Prestige, and Funding: I am an “ex” scientist. I have over 100 publications in the field of materials science and physics. Many of these publications... Read more

Br. Guy Consolmagno and Fr. Robert Spitzer attempt to teach the increasingly silly Stephen Hawking some elementary philosophy. I know Fr. Spitzer. He’s a pistol. An absolute vibrating fireball of primal intellectual energy (and loads of fun to listen to). Turns out that when you try to insist the universe created itself from nothing, you can’t smuggle in “because of the law of gravity” since that’s, you know, something. And you can’t answer the question “But why is there a... Read more

A reader sends along this quote: The unity of the West is not an idea but a historical reality, of which the sole foundation is Christ. – Dietrich Bonhoeffer, 1943, prior to his arrest The disunity of the West is not an idea but an emergent historical reality, of which the sole foundation is antichrist. – Mark Shea, 2010, prior to his arrest Read more

A Medjugorje enthusiast frets: Negative views and writing of Medjugoje by high profile Catholic lay leaders, journalists, and bloggers including Mark Shea and John Kandra and BeliefNet.com (we have directly spoken with many of them) is clearly having an impact on the Catholic faithful in the United States. I certainly hope so. The comparison of the highly dubious and rich visionaries to Joan of Arc is… a stretch. Meanwhile, responsible workers in the Vineyard, like Diane M. Korzeniewski, cut through... Read more

has a blog. EIEIO. Check thou it out for all your Catholic singles, dating and tiptoeing toward the altar information. Read more

In the ongoing puzzlement over the Church’s baffling teaching that you can’t deliberately target and incinerate children in their beds, even for a really good American cause, a reader writes: We start with the given that it is wrong to attack and destroy a city, regardless of any potential military advantage gained thereby. Superficially, this sounds like a problem with quantity (i.e. it is wrong to destroy an entire city). But is it OK to destroy half the city? One... Read more

Today, my minions, I bid you rejoice as my plans ripen and one of my rivals starts to feel the heat. The only thing sweeter to the ears of us Dark Lords than the wailing of our lackeys in the Pits of Despair is the murmur of revolt in the ranks of our rivals. Raise a tankard of gruel in celebration of the imminent ruin of the Dear Leader! That is all! Read more

My Name is Anil Joseph, I am staying in a place called nedumangadu,I am 30 years old, I am writing this mail for a particular reason. For last 10 years,I am facing a lot(different) of pain and uneasiness in the body and myheart. Nothing is seen in the treatment what the dusease is. Now my marriageis being planned. Lord please touch me and heal me. Please all pray to meto Jesus. That I should be married , and lead a... Read more

A reader writes: Please include a work friend of mine who died this morning in your prayers.He was still a youngish guy, early forties, and worked in my division as a software engineer, in seemingly good health. Out of the blue he had an aneurysm and was hospitalized a couple of weeks ago. This weekend, while in recovery, he had a stroke and died. Father, grant eternal life to this man and grant consolation to all who loved him through... Read more