A reader writes: I have (yikes) 3 prayer requests that I hope you can post to your blog when you get a chance. First, my extremely independent grandmother just discovered that she may soon lose vision in her remaining good eye, so I would like to ask for prayers for her to either be healed, or to be given the strength and courage to adjust to such a radical change. Secondly, a close friend of mine was admitted to the... Read more

thought you might find this of interest. Read more

Mike Flynn has a way with headlines. Read more

with absolutely no help at all, according to completely trustworthy and reliable LC muckety muck who stands to gain nothing whatsoever by distancing himself and all of Maciel’s lieutenants from Maciel. Well then. That’s settled. You may resume giving them money, trust and power. The whole thing needs to be taken apart, brick by brick, till there is nothing left. The Happy Talk Emitter was built by Maciel to emit Happy Talk and will go on doing that till it... Read more

atheist issues ransom demands to God. The ransom note boils down to “I don’t like thinking, so you have to do some magic tricks or I will go on pretending you don’t exist.” I wonder if God as a “Whatever” file for petulant demands from atheists who worship the intellect instead of using it. Read more

…and tries to pretend that the Catholic faith is whatever happens to be pleasing to the empty space between his ears. How vacuous do you have to be before the Boston Globe says, “No, this anti-Catholic screed is too dumb even for us.” So far there appears to be no bottom. Read more

An equal opportunity defender of Church teaching against the encroachments of consequentialism and the inveterate tendency of American political partisans to make excuses for Their Team’s embrace of grave and intrinsic evil, we find him schooling the gang over at Vox Nova for their reliable excuse-making on behalf of Obama’s transparent lies about funding abortion. Just as “Hey! It was just a few people we tortured” is unlikely to help at the Pearly Gates, so is “Look, it’s just a... Read more

This just came in over the transom: Last year I produced a a documentary film in Rome about how six popes helped to save the Catholic Church after Rome was destroyed in 1527. The film, called “Lost Road of the Popes: Via Papale” has recently won the “Best Documentary” award at the Houston film festival. It features interviews with Catholic Priests and Historians in Rome and the United States. The film is narrated by Brian Dennehy. We have recently released... Read more

(who has 74 more followers than me, not that I’m obsessed or anything) writes about clericalism. Read more

A reader writes: Here’s a puzzler for ya, although I imagine you might have thought about it before. By the way, I’m asking a layman because I’m not confident that my local Priest would know any better, and anyway a Priest’s role is not to be a “dispenser” of Catholic answers; if anything, answering such questions is more appropriate for lay apologists like yourself. So here goes. Is it possible for someone to pray “for” another in a malicious way?... Read more