Today, my minions, I command you to read this trenchant review of the History Channel and their programming about World War II. Veddy witty! Villain mustaches are out among us Dark Lords. We go for goatees during the summer. Read more

This reader writes: Lucas is Home!!!! We still don’t know exactly what happened, But they think it was a siezure . He had a spinal tap, and when they poked him with the needle he jerked and scared the heck out of everyone! LoL… But that didn’t hurt anything. He looks totally normal, but he can’t lift anything, or run. He can sleep, and he is T-I-R-E-D! Thank you for all your prayers! It means so much to our family!... Read more

A reader writes: Please pray today for successful surgery for my father, who’s had severe back pain stemming from bone fragements in two of his discs along his spinal column. A simpler, less painful procedure yesterday did not work, and today the doctors are drilling into the discs themselves to try to clear them out. The surgery is this morning. Father, please let the surgery have gone well and grant him full recovery through our Lord Jesus! Mother Mary and... Read more

…from the gospel according to Gilbert and Sullivan: The Seminarian’s Song To the Tune of the Major-General’s Song from The Pirates of Penzance I am the very model of Catholic seminarianI’ve information pastoral, canonical, and Marian,I know the Popes of Avignon and Councils EcumenicalFrom Nicaea to Vatican plus gatherings heretical.I’m very well acquainted too with matters homiletical,I’ll write a pretty sermon that is eloquent yet practical,About soteriology I’m teeming with a lot o’ news…Such as salvation history’s relation to the... Read more

Man Church is church the way a man expects it to be done. No singing, short sermon, time to talk with other guys, no women present, and coffee and donuts. That’s the way men want to do church. The topics of discussion will have a definite manly focus – being the best possible husband, father, employee, leader – being a real man. In fact, every aspect of Man Church is geared for men – not like any other church you... Read more

Tolerance is not Enough. You. MUST. Approve. Failure to do so will be punished by termination of employment. The Academy does not exist to expose the human mind to different ideas. It exists to enforce ideological conformity to leftist pieties and to teach students that any idea that offends them should be punished by Caesar. Read more

for Mother Teresa: They are: 1. Naming a building on her birthday. Aug. 26 at 12:10 p.m.: The grand opening of the Mother Teresa Center for Nursing and Health Education; unveiling of the words “Mother Teresa Nursing Center” on the building.2. Lighting the Campus blue for weeks. Aug. 25-Sept. 5: Campus buildings will be lit in blue for the time between the anniversary of Mother Teresa’s birth and the anniversary of her death. 3. Prayer for Canonization at First Home... Read more

So Glenn Beck has announced the creation of “Beck University” where enthusiasts for his unique blend of half-baked historical analysis, paranoia, and Mormon “America the Light and the Glory” secular messianism can go to get “a unique academic experience bringing together experts in the fields of religion, American history and economics.” He describes it as an “academic program”, but as is typically the case with him, it’s hard to tell if he is speaking tongue-in-cheek (as in “The Rush Limbaugh... Read more

Today my shuffling zombies of doom, I bid you contemplate bear on a trampoline! When you are finished doing that, consider the fact that thousands of tons of fat are, at this very moment, tunnelling under our cities and, quite possibly, under your very house! Oh, and stupid old Fr. Longenecker hss 500 followers. But I’m okay with that and am not plotting against him in any way. Indeed, I am frequently not filled with burning envy and am feeling... Read more

A reader writes: My Mom, Dad, And brother Lucas, Are going to the hospital. Lucas was complaining that he couldn’t see. He became unresponsive, wouldn’t look at us, respond, or give any sign that he could hear us. I’m so scared. please pray for us. Father, hear our prayer for Lucas that he would be healed. Give skill to his doctors and caregivers, and peace, strength and consolation to his family. Mother Mary and St. Luke pray for him that... Read more