A reader writes: My wife and I ask for your continued prayers for our pregnancy. In early January, we went to our first ultrasound and the tech couldn’t find any sign of life in the child. Five weeks later, we returned to see if there were any cancerous cells and were happily surprised to see a fully healthy child. We are now 16 weeks pregnant, and have experienced some minor spotting, which has scared us very badly. Our doctors have... Read more

Do you know how to get a hold of David Morrison? The email address I have is out of date, and his current blog doesn’t appear to have an address posted for him. I’d like to ask him for parish recommendations in Arlington, VA. To that end, if you know anyone in the Arlington who might be able to provide some guidance, the zip code I’m interested in is 22213. I’m afraid I’m a total zero in the Help Department... Read more

to combat the recent MSM hysteria. Happily, the media have no sense of liturgical time. Easter was over for them at midnight last Sunday, so the frenzy is dying down despite Andrew Sullivan’s best Trig Truther-style attempts to keep the phoney thing ginned up. Now we have to wait till next Christmas for another round of Christian/Catholic bashing. Read more

The Catholic Research Resources Alliance is a union of eleven Catholic-affiliated university libraries that are seeking to create a common “portal” for all Catholic research. Part of my work involves tracking down resources that focus on Catholic culture proper–that is, that are not simply Catholic in nature or origin, but that are substantial sources of information on the faith and its associated culture. If you know of any, I invite you to leave me a comment on my blog, where... Read more

continues to point out that getting one’s information about the Catholic Church from Christopher “I wish there was a hell for the bitch [Mother Teresa] to go to” Hitchens is sort of like consulting Mein Kampf for information on the Jewish contribution to Western Civilization. One of the constant trope I hear among the “Gawrsh, Hitchens sure is hard on the Church, but golly! he’s a true blue patriotic American who supports our valiant work in Iraq and does yeoman... Read more

The same sort of people who would dearly love to “bring about a “radical transformation of American law,” which would include overturning any abortion restrictions in domestic laws or those covering foreign activities” would also very much like to “detain Pope Benedict XVI during his upcoming visit to Britain, and send him to trial in the International Criminal Court (ICC) for “crimes against humanity.” I think John J. Reilly is right: the enemies of the Church (I mean the dedicated... Read more

In John 8, Jesus did not apply the temporal punishment of stoning to death. He obeyed the Law. There were not enough men to condemn her. That is why He said he did not condemn her. Why does this forgive her sins? The thief on the cross had no sin since Jesus stated he would be in heaven. He was holy enough to enter heaven. The meaning is implicit in the text. Where is the implicit forgiveness in John 8.... Read more

My father is not doing well. Prayers would be appreciated. Thanks. Father, hear our prayer for him that he get well or, if that is not your will, that he be given the grace of a happy death in Christ. Mother Mary, pray for us now and at the hour of our death. Amen. Read more

The Agitprop Machine of the Thing That Used to Be Conservatism Swings Into Action. What interests me here is the raw groupthink of the thing, a groupthink that seems to me to be indistinguishable from the pack journalism that decided to go after Benedict like teenagers setting fire to a helpless stroller in Central Park after midnight. What matters in such situations is not a serious discussion of the merits of an argument or the facts of the case, but... Read more

In four days, on April 12, we will be kicking off my “Daily Sheavings” — little tidbit video chewies aimed to get your day started on the right foot! Daily Sheavings: Better than a cup of JAVA! Way better than a code of JAVA. But, of course, that’s just the hors d’ouevres. The main event gets revved up and running at 7:00 PM Pacific time on April 21 and 28, when we will kick off Streaming Sheavision with a two... Read more