spawns Evangelical guessing. Our culture treats the Evangelical guess as silly, but (for reasons still inscrutable to me) treats the scientific guess as Real News. If you read the side bar on the Science Guess you get more guessing, including the inevitable Trendy Tie In piece about how Climate Change (that Omnipotent Goddess) may have killed off Neanderthal. This is a shift from the You Should Feel Guilty for Being Human explanation that Homo Sapiens killed off Neanderthal (a theme... Read more

…a Deacon’s wife, grandmother of five, and a Catechist for the RCIA. Sounds like an interesting life to blog! Read more

A reader asks: May I humbly ask your prayers regarding work problems? Father, hear our prayer that these problems be resolved to the glory of your Name and the good of your servant through Christ Jesus our Lord. Mother Mary and St. Joseph, pray for this person. Another reader asks: A request for prayer for my mother-in-law, who goes in for a total hip replacement Tuesday. She’s only 57. Please pray for the operation to be successful and without complications.... Read more

A reader asks: May I humbly ask your prayers regarding work problems? Father, hear our prayer that these problems be resolved to the glory of your Name and the good of your servant through Christ Jesus our Lord. Mother Mary and St. Joseph, pray for this person. Another reader asks: A request for prayer for my mother-in-law, who goes in for a total hip replacement Tuesday. She’s only 57. Please pray for the operation to be successful and without complications.... Read more

the Tim LaHaye Strategy for Literary Success! There’s a sucker born every minute! Read more

A leading cause of Stockholm Syndrome. Read more

…for Scripture Study. I sense an update to Scott Hahn’s site coming. Read more

Ray Bradbury! One of the best of Golden Age. Read more

Pat Madrid writes to inform me that on Thursdays from 3-5 ET, he will now be broadcasting in Washington DC, along with quite a few other Catholic folk. This will be a change of pace for DC, which has never had a Nativity play performed in it’s precincts since they could not find any virgins or wise men. Ba dum bum! Read more

I’m not sure if you’ve followed Richard Dawkins and others bashing on catholic clergy because of the clothes they wear on cerimonial occaasions. You may be interested to learn that Richard Dawkins himself wears “dresses” on occasion. See this link which shows Dawkins in 2009 getting an honorary doctorate in what he calls (when Catholic clergy are wearing it) a dress. People like Dawkins who suffer from the personality disorder that prevents them from picking up on basic human emotional... Read more