for cheering on the hiding and shuffling of pedophile priests and then compounding matters with a quick CYA maneuver that claims (without proof) that JPII was totally in his court is, no doubt for utterly unrelated reasons, suddenly not going to be the Celebrant at the upcoming Pontifical Mass in the Extraordinary Form in DC on April 24. No doubt they will find somebody else. If you are interested in the details of all this, I’d keep checking the link... Read more

Pursuing the logic of General Curtis LeMay, American Idol believes that we need to destroy The Children in order to save them. Naturally, this is called humanitarianism by our Chattering Classes. One more reason I’m content with never having seen the thing. I *like* being out of touch! Read more

No. Really. It is possible to think about our relationship to the Earth in Catholic ways without lapsing into Gaia worship, transposing the whole discussion into a Calvinized mode full of guilt-mongering about our irredeemable sins against the Planet, or embracing a nihlist “Would Our Mother Be Better Off If We Had Never Existed?” mantra. Read more

History doesn’t repeat. But it sure does rhyme. The “moral panic” we have witnessed in the past two months is, unlike the events of 2002, almost entirely a media-manufactured event. Nothing of the utter hysteria directed against Benedict accomplished anything good or revealed anything really damning against him. It was an artificial panic concocted by an anti-Catholic media that chose to wage war on the Church and on this pontiff using abused children as human shields. Someday, when cooler heads... Read more

What used to be the Party of Ideas continues its morph into the Party Where Thinking is Strongly Discouraged by the likes of police state enthusiast Andy McCarthy. Any party that takes Mark Levin seriously as a Major Intellectual Player is in deep, deep trouble. And party that immediately turns on and shouts down somebody like Jim Manzi for pointing that out is going to remain in deep, deep trouble for quite some time to come, even if (indeed, especially... Read more

…not is it Inflamed Secularism. It is, believe it or not, healthy spirituality. Today’s case study: South Park vs. Jihad The Andrew Sullivans of the world continue, along with the Neocon types and the various American Way Uber Alles folks in the Grand End to Evil Project to exult whenever some post-Christian with anti-religious dementia like Christopher Hitchens says something insulting about Islam as though this is automatically a Triumph for America. More to the point, Christians who have been... Read more

Please mention this man in your prayers.Father, continue to grant him healing until the cancer is fully gone! Give grace and skill to his caregivers and strength and peace to his loved ones. Mother Mary, St. Luke and St. Peregrine, pray for him! We ask all this in the Name of Jesus. Amen. Read more

A reader writes: My girlfriend is going through a real tragic time. Her father has a life-threatening infection, and it seems very likely he’s about to be called to his heavenly reward. Please, pray for him. Pray for us all. Father, hear our prayer for this man and for all who love him. Grant him life, both in this world and the next, through your Son Jesus Christ and grant grace and strength to all who love him and are... Read more

hates being right all the time. Latest Anglican antics: corporate sponsorship. To be fair, this is pretty old. One of the things that cracked me up when I visited Boston was going on the Freedom Trail walk and visiting a pre-revolutionary Anglican/Calvinist chapel. Being Calvinist, it was utterly scrubbed bare of any imagery pertaining to Jesus, Our Lady, the apostles, etc. That’s “idolatry” doncha know. However, being Anglican, it honored and commemorated the various local bourgeoisie who had built and... Read more

Today, my minions, I command you to read and heed John C. Wright’s views on the execration that is Paul Verhoeven’s Starship Troopers. (Basic moral: there’s nothing wrong in the world that Jack Webb probably couldn’t fix.) In addition, I command you to beseige Mr. Wright with pleas to write something, anything, about the prospect of Paul Verhoeven doing a film on the life of Christ. Because whatever he writes about that dreadful prospect will be, you know, awesome. That... Read more