Who Art in Heaven: In which we continue our look at the Our Father. Then and Now: In which the Prophet Chesterton comments on our Robed Masters and the Ninth Circuit gives us another reason to homeschool. Read more

show us what it means to affirm that consent is the sole criterion of the Good. You people need to get over your bourgeois and conventional notions of middle class American dining and realize that there is a whole Rainbow of Immensity that needs to be explored and affirmed without question by you and your children. We must create a world in which we can all fork what we want with whoever we want anytime we want. Anything else is... Read more

…about the aroma of nativism that suffuses the dishonest coverage of the GZM by organs like FoxNews is articles like this: “An Unprofitable Mosque: Muslim Troubles in New Haven.” The mosque on one of New Haven’s finest residential streets had been dedicated five years earlier, but only after a struggle in which the imam was pressured to accept an alternate site. As article put it, “When the residents of this aristocratic avenue discovered that they were in danger of seeing... Read more

…thinking in terms of “Muslim Inside Baseball” and not really taking into account the world Outside the Bubble, I give you John Allen’s discussion of the astonishing game of “Catholic Inside Baseball” the Ents at the Vatican were engaged in during the Williamson flap last year: Now for one of those revelations from the book — a nugget which captures the Vatican’s PR tone-deafness so perfectly that it just takes your breath away. It concerns the affair of Bishop Richard... Read more

Can a government legislate objective morality? Answer: Yes. Indeed all legitimate law is nothing but legislated morality. Of course, that doesn’t mean that a government *necessarily* must legislate all morality. It is immoral for Catholics to skip Mass on Sunday. I don’t want a civil law against it though. Similarly, the fact that states *can* legislate morality doesn’t mean they always do. Often states legislate grave evil by the exercise of raw power. When they do, Augustine is perfectly right... Read more

Fr. Rutler, with his customary aplomb and grace, discusses the liturgy in a way which makes a dolt like me able to empathize with his concerns. More like him please. Read more

An entire song made of palindromes, clearly stolen from Dawn Eden and Bob Dylan: Read more

Legacy of Torture The “enhanced interrogation techniques” used on terror suspects were immoral, did huge damage to the country’s global standing and produced little important intelligence. And now they are making it much harder to try and convict accused terrorists. Boy! Who could possibly have foreseen *that* as they labored to defend the use of torture for years and years in comboxes all over St. Blog’s. What a wholly unforeseen consequence of an immoral, stupid, unproductive and short-sighted policy! Read more

Sundry jerks are desecrating the Eucharist on Youtube. Unleash the power of the blog and ask Youtube to stop the jerks. Stuff gets pulled from Youtube all the time. You can help see to it that this stuff of jerkishness is among the stuff that disappears. Read more

Study finds chocolate milk works well after exercising Got milk? Got … chocolate milk? A new study suggests that drinking a glass of chocolate milk after strenuous exercise may do as much as an expensive sports drink to help your body get back to its former levels, and is greatly superior to a carbohydrate-only drink. William Lunn, a newly hired assistant professor of exercise science at Southern Connecticut State University, wrote his doctoral dissertation at the University of Connecticut on... Read more