As the UN launches yet another assault on life and the family with a big conference in Leon, Mexico that aims to destroy the rights of parents in the lives of their children, the Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute is on the case. I’m happy to report that the conference is in tremendous chaos. Throw your enemies into confusion, O Lord, and protect your children from the wiles of the foe. Bring good where they mean to do evil. Read more

look no further than my left rail, with the shiny new Homeschool Connections ad. As part of my ongoing effort to get filthy rich, one nickel and dime at a time, I have thrown my lot in with the fabulously lucrative homeschool movement. If all goes according to plan, I expect to make literally dozens of dollars from this baby in the coming years! Scroll down, click on the banner (it’s the one with the big pencil), buy lots of... Read more

EIEIO. She came to the blogging panel at the writer’s conference in Philly, took one look at me and said, “A trained chimp could blog better than that guy! What are they doing putting a doofus like that on a panel with real writers like Donna Marie Cooper O’Boyle and Lisa Hendey?” (I’m paraphrasing here.) Armed thus with the Muse of Inspiration, she marched off, determined to turn Blogtown upside down. And away she goes! Check thou her out! Read more

Non-Teddy Roosevelts. Read more

Another reader writes with happy news: Thanks to you and your readers for your prayers for my wife and child. Against all odds, Anna Kateri was born yesterday and is a healthy, if small, kid. Praise to God! Yay for babies! Father, thank you through our Lord Jesus Christ. Mother Mary, take this young one and her family under your mantle through Christ our Lord. Amen! Read more

A reader who asked prayer for his pregnant wife writes: Our healthy baby girl was born Saturday. Thanks to you all, & thanks to St Gerard as well. Thanks be to God through our Lord Jesus Christ! Thank be to all the saints who interceded too! Read more

Roy Schoeman writes me: Just a short note to let you know that the Association of Hebrew Catholics will be sponsoring a conference titled “Hebrew Catholics and the Mission of the Church” in St. Louis over the first weekend of October (Oct. 1 –3, 2010). I will be giving two talks during the conference. Other speakers include Sr. Rosalind Moss, and there will also be a taped interview with Archbishop Raymond Burke on the topic of Jews in the Church.... Read more

A reply to a Protestant apologist’s claim that the similarities re: sacramental theology in the various Eastern Churches is only a matter of “cross-pollination” not indicating that the similarities show the antiquity of sacramental theology.I can see an Evangelical or Fundamentalist, utterly innocent of any knowledge of history, making such a silly claim. But for somebody who styles himself a “Protestant apologist” to maintain, with a straight face, that the Eastern Church was more or less a collection of storefront... Read more

There’s a Seattle connection to the story about the Federal Judge who just put the kibosh on the Obama Administrations cannibalistic zealotry. Her name is Theresa Deisher, the Catholic, prolife head of Sound Pharmaceuticals. Don’t believe all the banana oil about the “huge setback for science”. It’s a huge setback for moneyed cannibals who have adult stem cells (which actually work) staring them in the face, but who want to figure out a way to capitalize off the abortion industry.... Read more

Reader Will Luzader writes: As one of your servile followers, I humbly lay at your all-powerful feet a great new web community for Catholics in Phoenix, Arizona. It’s called, aptly, Catholic Phoenix. We’re also tweeting as catholicphx here. As I’ve told you before, I read By What Authority on my way to becoming Catholic and am now glad to follow you once again — this time on the digital sea. Catholic Phoenix is trying to faithfully heed the pope’s call... Read more