Your kid will not be sent off to have an abortion without your knowledge by the in-school clinic. Happened right here in the Kremlin of Soviet of Washington just the other day. I hope these parents sue the school for every dime they can get from it and that the clinic staff and Administration are sacked. Monstrous. Read more

You’ve been helpful in the past, and I was wondering if you could help again. Somebody just sprang this quote of John Paul I, 1978, as an argument that the Church is evil, and when I tried to track it down, I couldn’t find any original source or proof that it was real: “… this morning, I flushed my toilet with a solid gold lever edged with diamonds and at this very moment, bishops and cardinals are using a bathroom... Read more

A stop-motion animator known as Pes, while doing research for a short film in Woodlawn Cemetary, stumbled across a headstone which read as follows: “GEORGE S. MILLITT Lost life by stab in falling on ink eraser, evading six youngwomen trying to give himbirthday kisses in officemetropolitan life building.” Naturally curious about the incident, he did a little homework and found this 1909 article from the New York Times. God rest his soul. What a strange way to go. Luke, by... Read more

A creepy and yet, somehow, not surprising initiative to try to get the Japanese to have more kids: robot babies. A reader remarks: “It used to be men would copulate to encourage the gods to do so. Technology having become god, now we make robots to encourage men to do so.” Ick. Read more

http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=8812686&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1 How to feed the world ? from Denis van Waerebeke on Vimeo. HT: John Klocke Read more

A philosophy prof, fellow Chestertonian, and fellow convert writes: I just wanted to let you know that I just now finished reading vol I of “Mary: Mother of the Son” and I am deeply impressed with your work. As a Catholic convert myself I have never fully understood Mary although I tended to trust the Church on these matters. [I will say that my RCIA class in the early 80’s was rather dismal, so everything I have learned about the... Read more

Today, my lickspittles, you must learn to use Portal technology. If you do will, there will be cake. Also, as a reward for your unthinking slavery to my capricious and dangerously unstable will, here is the closing theme to Portal (non-flash version) by the inimitable Jonathon Coulton: That is all! Read more

My father’s in the ER with a possible stroke. Prayers appreciated. Father, hear our prayer that he be completely healed and that his caregivers be granted the wisdom and skill to help him through this crisis. Hear our prayers for strength, consolation and grace for all who love him. Mother Mary, pray for them! Read more

A classmate of mine and her husband are going to try to have kids, and could use some prayers for health and wisdom! Father, hear our prayer for these folks and grant them many kids through Jesus our Lord! Mother Mary and St. Luke, pray for them! Read more

One of the things that is painfully obvious from a huge amount of anti-Catholic apologetics from Professional Protestants of the AOMIN.org variety is that they simply do not have Eastern Christianity on the radar. Every time I read some goofy tract decrying “Rome” for introducing notions like Marian veneration, or the Real Presence, or prayer for the dead, or apostolic succession I find myself thinking “Dude. Have you ever heard of the Orthodox? They don’t exactly get their marching orders... Read more