A reader writes: On Saturday, May 8th, at 3:00 PM, the St. Anthony of Padua Institute is offering a free lecture titled “Conflict and Accommodation: Matteo Ricci’s Approach to Catholic Evangelization in China” at St. Margaret Mary Church in Oakland. The speaker will be Anthony E. Clark, Ph.D., Professor of Asian History, Whitworth University. The lecture is being given in memory of the late Fr. Matthias Lu, the first vicar for Chinese Catholics in the Diocese of Oakland and a... Read more

Reformation.org is a site that just keeps on giving. Here is a piece breathlessly revealing that the locus of evil in the universe is Roman Catholic mad scientist Louis Pasteur with his evil, evil science that saved millions of lives. Fave quote: “This Roman Catholic experimenter died clutching the crucifix — and instrument of DEATH!!” Remember: It’s Catholics who fear science and want to repudiate germ theory so we can go back to explaining all disease as bad humors and... Read more

…based on no discernible criterion, rhyme, or reason that I can detect. Gratitude constrains me to say “Thank you” to the folks who put it together since they mention CAEI there. Honesty constrains me to say, “Take the whole thing with a grain of salt.” It’s probably the only place on the web where you will find blogs like Rorate Coeli and DignityUSA lumped together. Read more

Some bad news. An old friend of our family, Denis Archer, has died. Denis and his wife Eileen are the sort of people I’ve often suspected will go straight to Heaven when they die, so I feel worse for our loss than for Denis’. But I feel most keenly for Eileen, who was so brave, so heartbreakingly brave, when she called to give us the news. She is a sweet lady from Ireland who is just the soul of all... Read more

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

…is that stuff like this happens. That is just twelve kinds of beautiful. Read more

Dear Gay Professionally Aggrieved Grievance Professional: Here is why people hate you. This month, San Jose State University President, Jon Whitmore, decided to continue a two year old policy of suspending all blood drives on campus. The reason? Because the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) bans men who have had sex with other men (MSM) from donating blood. According to SJSU, this violates the University’s policy against sexual orientation discrimination. Of course, one expects the culture of narcissism that is... Read more

in the latest issue of Our Sunday Visitor (subscription necessary). Also, I will be running a series on Mary once a month in OSV till December. So there you are! Read more

sodomize a Christian barber for shaving a Muslim’s beard. America’s ongoing nation-building project in the Middle East: like the Great Society, only without the rousing success. And yet, strangely, anti-Big Government Tea Partiers tend to have no problem with it. Madness. Read more

means bloody well doing what Caesar bloody well pressures you to do. Read more