…in Israel and Japan are not going well. Here’s a portion of a review of a book called “Embodying Culture: Pregnancy in Japan and Israel”: Ivry categorizes pregnancy for Israeli women as a “risky business.” Unlike the mother-baby dyad of Japanese pregnancies, Israeli pregnancies are strictly woman (not mother) and fetus. “When a woman walks into my office and says ‘I’m pregnant,'” Ivry quotes an Israeli ultrasound expert as saying, “I don’t touch her. I don’t say anything to her,... Read more

Today is the feast of St. Philip Neri, one of the funniest saints who ever lived. Shaved off half his beard once. A real card. Today, I command you, my toiling minions, to consider his Fool for Christ example and do something that makes you look ridiculous for Christ. That is all! Read more

First, some humor: http://media.theonion.com/flash/video/onn_player.swf?videoid=14394&embedded=true&host=http://www.theonion.comFinal Season Of ‘Lost’ Promises To Make Fans More Annoying Than Ever So, what did my fellow Losties make of the finale? I have some thoughts but they are still gestating. Later, dudes and dudettes! Read more

This just in: Karol Jozef Wojtyla wants to be friends with you on Facebook. Read more

Patrick Madrid, another member of the League of Awesomely Powerful Catholic Apologists, is continuing the struggle to serve the Church, bear witness to the Faith, and feed a very large family. To that end, he is seeking people who are willing to become members of the Envoy Institute. If you appreciate the good and hard work Pat does, consider it! Read more

Milk out the nose hijinx over at the Register blog as one reader writes: I don’t know if any of you career Catholic apologists have noticed or not, but Bishop Olmstead of Phoenix is getting absolutely trashed in every corner of online commentary for announcing the ex-communication of Sister McBride for authorizing a direct abortion as a healing measure at a Catholic Hospital. Would one of you please take a moment to offer some counter perspective?!!! and another guy replies:... Read more

…who is a seminarian at Mount St. Mary’s for the Archdiocese of Atlanta, writes: Two of my former classmates (class of 2014 at the Mount. They just finished Pre Theology and have left the Mount and will be starting the novitiate with the Dominican Fathers in a few months. Absolutely solid guys) are walking the Camino de Santiago and are blogging … Check thou it out! Read more

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In which we discuss the weirdly inconsistent ways in which liberal biblical scholarship evaluates the biblical text. Read more