A reader asks prayer for this poor soul: According to the pastor, he returned to the Faith (after decades away) the Sunday before he hanged himself but had a very frightening look in his eyes when came up for Communion. His body was burnt and the family was going to take the “ashes” to the woods. Instead, the pastor intervened and he is buried next to Wm F. Buckley Father, have mercy on him and grant him peace through our... Read more

A reader asks prayer for this poor soul: According to the pastor, he returned to the Faith (after decades away) the Sunday before he hanged himself but had a very frightening look in his eyes when came up for Communion. His body was burnt and the family was going to take the “ashes” to the woods. Instead, the pastor intervened and he is buried next to Wm F. Buckley Father, have mercy on him and grant him peace through our... Read more

More “Harry Potter is demonic” silliness from people speaking out of their field of competence. And now I will have to listen to hate mail from people saying, “How *DARE* you question the judgment of a priest?” I know. I know. Catholics are allowed to heap contempt on the judgments of priests, bishops, and Popes when it comes trivialities like war, torture, the social teaching of the Church, the Council, or the death penalty. But when it comes to something... Read more

More “Harry Potter is demonic” silliness from people speaking out of their field of competence. And now I will have to listen to hate mail from people saying, “How *DARE* you question the judgment of a priest?” I know. I know. Catholics are allowed to heap contempt on the judgments of priests, bishops, and Popes when it comes trivialities like war, torture, the social teaching of the Church, the Council, or the death penalty. But when it comes to something... Read more

alerts me to the existence of the Faking News, India’s answer to the Onion. Read more

alerts me to the existence of the Faking News, India’s answer to the Onion. Read more

You posted recently a note about monotheism and you said that Sikhs and Christians believe in the same God because there is only one God. I wondered if you could elaborate on this. I know that the Catechism teaches that Christians and Muslims worship the same God, and Protestant attempts to assert otherwise are easily refuted, since the identity of a person’s God isn’t dependent on having correct beliefs about Him. But if the question is, “how can people with... Read more

You posted recently a note about monotheism and you said that Sikhs and Christians believe in the same God because there is only one God. I wondered if you could elaborate on this. I know that the Catechism teaches that Christians and Muslims worship the same God, and Protestant attempts to assert otherwise are easily refuted, since the identity of a person’s God isn’t dependent on having correct beliefs about Him. But if the question is, “how can people with... Read more

Of course, with ingenious editing, you could probably make any average group of schlubs on any street in the world look like a pack of bellicose morons. So mark this one “Funny, but not exactly scientific.” Read more

Of course, with ingenious editing, you could probably make any average group of schlubs on any street in the world look like a pack of bellicose morons. So mark this one “Funny, but not exactly scientific.” Read more