Catholic Voices is helping the Church in the UK find their voice! It sounds something like what the Maximus Group is trying in this country: changing the names in the media rolodox so it’s not always the same tedious group of graying angry nuns, clueless laity, and dopey priests babbling about the glories of the Third Vatican Council which will convene on the cooling corpse of Benedict XVI and inaugurate the Episcoplanianification of the Church. Go team! Read more

Catholic Voices is helping the Church in the UK find their voice! It sounds something like what the Maximus Group is trying in this country: changing the names in the media rolodox so it’s not always the same tedious group of graying angry nuns, clueless laity, and dopey priests babbling about the glories of the Third Vatican Council which will convene on the cooling corpse of Benedict XVI and inaugurate the Episcoplanianification of the Church. Go team! Read more

I was going to say this was a good book – except that the subject matter is so disturbing that the adjective “good” doesn’t fit. So I will say it is a well-written and necessary read…though depressing. What I found “good” (there’s that word again) about it is that it gives so much more background to all that went on at Abu Ghraib (from the total f-ups at the highest level to the torture and humiliation perpetrated by stupid kids*)... Read more

I was going to say this was a good book – except that the subject matter is so disturbing that the adjective “good” doesn’t fit. So I will say it is a well-written and necessary read…though depressing. What I found “good” (there’s that word again) about it is that it gives so much more background to all that went on at Abu Ghraib (from the total f-ups at the highest level to the torture and humiliation perpetrated by stupid kids*)... Read more

I thought the content of the Portsmouth Institute’s 2010 conference on Cardinal Newman and the Intellectual Tradition might interest you, regarding which I’ve posted thoughts and complete YouTube video. Read more

…still doesn’t like the Pope. Maybe the NY Times can hire him to provide more completely objective coverage. Read more

In which we look at the most despised and thankless (earthly speaking) of the works of mercy. Read more

a little meditation for the Feast of St. Thomas Jefferson and I’m outta here. Back Tuesday! Have a great Fourth of July and be grateful for such a wonderful country (if you are American) and grateful for your own country if you are not! Patriotism, properly understood, is just the second greatest commandment applied to your countryman. A fine thing, when honored in right order with the greatest commandment. For more info, go here, here, and here. Read more

The only thing more demented than the question (“Did Hitler have x ray vision?“) are the utterly insane answers. I love that, according to the lunatic who posed the question, this matter has been “resolved” and that the resolution to the question (after a lot of lunatics pooled their lunacy and worked to achieve consensus) is as follows: Best Answer – Chosen by AskerNo. His sensitive eyes were blinded by the light and there was a lot that he did... Read more

has started a blog! This is *great* news! He’s my old pastor at my beloved Blessed Sacrament parish, now the President of the Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology down in Oakland. I love the guy! All light and no heat in his thinking, but also charming and warm as the sunshine. Check thou him out! Trivia factoid: I dedicated By What Authority? to him. He’s one of my favorite priests in the world! Read more