It was a pleasure meeting you at the Catholic New Media Celebration last week. I just wanted to share with you the link to a website I run about prayer. It’s designed to help people with their prayer lives. I try to approach the subject in a friendly but not frivolous manner. I am getting some good response from this site, and hope to develop it over time to be a good instructive and inspirational resource. Please feel free to... Read more

In which I reply to a griping email that managed to synthesize into one letter the bizarre mind-reading of countless letters like it that I receive whenever I suggest that Catholics would be better employed getting their teaching on social justice from the Church rather than Glenn Beck or The View. Now here’s a funny thing: When I answer people who get all their social teaching from The View (as I do here), the applause from right side of the... Read more

…about Hollywood’s chronic inability to portray healthy masculinity. In one corner, you have the Perpetual Boy. In the other, you have the steroid-rage monkey blowing everything up, dismembering, and slitting throats for God and Country. This gets reflected, of course, in our national discourse between the Professionally Aggrieved Grievance Professional who is constantly vying for Most Tragic Victim Status when he isn’t muddling about his Fear of Commitment and (on the other hand) the Laptop Bombardier and Management Class Coward... Read more

…joins the ranks of pantywaist, America-hating, Ivory Tower abstract theological wusses who don’t understand what it means to be a Real Red-Blooded Catholic Man and deliberately murder innocent human beings when necessary, dammit! Repeat after me: it’s for the greater good; the ends justify the means; a man’s man doesn’t hestitate to do dirty work to win a war dammit; you must hate America you pantywaist; the Church should stick to babbling about theology and not interfere in the Real... Read more

So the other day, I posted a little link to a piece the fine Fr. Bob Carr had written about his Holy Rule for Blogging. He was basically trying to encourage civility and common sense among bloggers. My sense of humor is perverse. So when I run across obvious nice people writing obviously good and decent pleas for loving and thoughtful discourse, it cracks me up to juxtapose those pleas with the worst sort of brainless screaming you find in... Read more

Today, my children of darkness, I reveal to you my glorious success! My plan to shrink the moon is succeeding! In honor of my evil brilliance, I command you to dance–while you still can! That is all! Read more

A reader writes: Hey Mark…lost my job. laid off, but realistically, the company is never going to recover, so there’s no hope that my position will be recalled. Anyway, I cannot find a job and have five kids, wife is a stay at home mom. Prayers would be much appreciated. Father, hear our prayer for this man that he can find work quickly and provide for his family through your Son Jesus Christ! Mother Mary and St. Joseph, patron of... Read more

…can go from “Hosanna” to “Crucify!” in a short time. For some, it only takes a week. The real trick is rising again after that. Only One has pulled that off. Our current Son of Man appears to be able only to rise up and take another vacation. I’m not feelin’ the Pentecost wind blowing from his inspirational mojo. Read more

an 80 year woman, and mother of a Benedictine monk is calling for Sunday Mass in late September to be boycotted. Because nothing will help heal the Church like avoiding the Eucharist. Smart. Read more

…can sometimes cause the improper development of female genitalia. It’s treatable, but there’s a catch. It *could* prevent the occurrence of homosexuality. So, natch, the advocates of the religion of homosexuality want to prevent the treatment. I know exactly how they feel! Some kids are born with a genetic propensity toward obesity. If they get treatment and avoid being obese, how do you think that makes me, an obese person, feel? God *made* me obese. I don’t have change my... Read more