In which we continue to look at the Beatitudes. Read more

this and this are why I think Christian torture supporters are so fantastically myopic about where their short-sighted bid for safety leads. The notion that a post-Christian state is basically going to be Leave it to Beaver with a few rough spots aimed at protecting Good Christian Folk from the New Foreign Menace is just delusional. Give a post-Christian Caesar the unilateral power to torture and murder whoever he deems to be an Enemy of the State and he will... Read more

My latest at the Register. Read more

Free lecture! Asclepius’ Snake and the Crucifix: Pagan Greek and Christian Medical Ethics The St. Anthony of Padua Institute presents a lecture by Thomas Cavanaugh, Ph.D., Professor of Philosophy at the University of San Francisco. The event will take place on Saturday, June 12, 2010, from 3:00 to 5:00 PM in the parish hall of St. Margaret Mary Church, 1219 Excelsior Ave., Oakland, CA 94709. Professor Cavanaugh will discuss the current state of medical ethics and the potential role that... Read more

New graphic novel blasphemes… well, not God or his angels exactly, but the weird cartoonish vision of them offered by Left Behind Millenialist scenarios. If God was the sort of god portrayed in Left Behind books or the Rapture twaddle commonly circulated in some sectors of Protestantism, I’d probably blaspheme him too. An awful lot of atheism is just fundamentalism that has become toxic. That doesn’t mean it is justified. It just means that the injustice atheists do God is... Read more

we find this entertaining tale of a married woman who used her cell phone to arrange trysts with a paramour. Phone company sends bill to her home address, where hubby reads it and connects the dots. She is, of course, suing the phone company for emotional distress. Read more

obsesses over celibacy like a man with a guilty conscience for breaking his vows. He can’t stop attacking the Church he has so often betrayed. His demand for “free play of Mind” sounds extremely familiar too. Read more

Portrait of somebody whose trash I am not fit to pick up. Now and then you meet somebody who you just know is going straight to heaven when they die. This is one such person. Read more

Portrait of somebody whose trash I am not fit to pick up. Now and then you meet somebody who you just know is going straight to heaven when they die. This is one such person. Read more

These guys are the real deal. Read more