Since I have not assigned this in months, I command you to catch up on all the episodes of Axe Cop. Also, for extra credit, you can read all the Ask Axe Cop features. If you do this, I will kill you last when my plans for Gotterdammerung are finally ripe and I destroy the world in a blaze of megalomaniacal glory. That is all! Read more

Time to goof off a bit! Back Tuesdayish. Don’t Labor on Labor Day! Read more

restatement of obvious and clear Catholic teaching that does not appeal to neocons who wish the Church to address the only only social issue in the whole wide world–abortion–while keeping the Church’s nose out of realpolitik ideas beloved by neocons. Here he is, speaking critically of yet another move to build even more nukes capable of incinerating the world 101 times instead of merely 100 times: Statement on the Groundbreaking of the Nuclear Weapons Plant By Most Rev. Robert W.... Read more

…and then morphed into the much-harder to grip “climate change” is suffering from severe changes in the climate of public opinion. Happens when you get caught with your pants down. Read more

…having fulfilled their purpose of getting suckers to believe that a vote for Obama was compatible with Catholic teaching, now fold up shop and disappear like the wholly owned subsidiary of George Soros they were. Gotta love that long-term commitment to Catholic social teaching. They weren’t just a front for the Obama campaign or anything. Read more

Please ask readers to pray for my friend Edmund Adamus, who is under fire for speaking the truth. See story here: His original interview is here. Father, hear our prayers and the prayers of St. Thomas More for your servant Edmund. Protect him and grace him to speak with your wisdom, power and love. We ask this through Christ our Lord. Mother Mary, pray for him! Read more

Not for the first time, a reader writes in honest bafflement to say: You confuse me. And that’s the problem. Hi, Mark. I’m a cradle Catholic, and I read your excellent book about discovering Catholic Tradition in the late 90’s. It’s one of the things that led me to the University of Dallas for graduate school in Theology. So, thank you. You’re welcome. Good to meet you. Now, I read your blog from time to time. I admit I’m not... Read more

Well intentioned and dreadful. “Better than a bone”? “Leash of love”? The whole thing manages to be both hilarious and creepy. I reckon God receives this sort of praise as he received the widow’s mite. But for those of us on the sidelines who do not live in perfected Trinitarian love yet… whew! Read more

Teh Binks suffers the slings and arrows of a Great Brownshirt North lack of a First Amendment. The Left longs for the day when free speech can be crushed here too. There’s already a toehold with those anti-free speech bubbles around various Murder Inc sites. The trick now is to find some robed masters who can blow those bubbles up larger and make them proliferate around various Professionally Aggrieved Grievance Professionals. Read more

you can be sure that what is about to come out of their mouth next is a farrago of ignorant nonsense. Not to disappoint, a reader writes: I used to be a devout Catholic but abandoned the faith ten years ago. I have never lost my fascination for Christ and his hidden presence in the world. I would like your opinion as to why seemingly sincere Christians like Pope Benedict preach so weakly in this age when most people are... Read more