In the beginning was Nothing and Nothing created Everything. When Nothing decided to create Everything, she filled a tiny dot with Time, Chance, and Everything and had it explode. The explosion spread Everything into Everywhere carrying Time and Chance with it to keep it company. The three stretched out together leaving bits of themselves wherever they went. One of those places was the planet Earth. Joe Carter has a jolly time telling the rest of the story here.People who don’t... Read more

Modern thought is composed, with innumerable minor variations, with two great main streams: the revolt against the Church in the name of Reason, and the revolt against Reason in the name of Nothing. The first revolt we can call, with no violence to the term, Modernism. The second we can call Postmodernism. A typically interesting and insightful essay that treats, inter alia, of satanic ecumenism (though he does not use the term). Also, I think Wright’s reader, Monte Cristo, has... Read more

in England. I have a feeling some zealous hole patcher will very quickly step in to fix up this oversight. The *whole point* of this sort of legislation is to criminalize Catholic teaching on marriage, sex, and the family. Read more

… not cubicle dwellers in the bowels of the USCCB, are the actual teachers of the Church. Read more

is pretty funny, once you get past the Obligatory Euro-Obama Worship. The stuff after the 3:10 mark is what cracked me up: Read more

I am currently putting together a series on the Rosary for my parish. During my almost four years as a permanent deacon, I have found that the Rosary is not as well understood and / or prayed as it might be. It is my intention to do a small amount of teaching on the Rosary, and then spend time praying together the four different sets of mysteries, one set per session, over the course of four weeks. I am hoping... Read more

American Heritage Girls instead of Girl Scouts. Reason #1: Your girl will not be subjected to agitprop from Murder Inc. such as the brochure “Happy, Healthy, and Hot” wherein she is given graphic details on sex, encouraging a casual approach to sexual experimentation. The brightly colored pamphlets feature silhouettes of young people and state, “Many people think sex is just about vaginal or anal intercourse… But, there are lots of different ways to have sex and lots of different types... Read more

A while back, I wrote about the phenomenon of Satanic Ecumenism. The indefatigable Chris Johnson meets a particularly ripe example of it in The Thing that Used to be the Episcopal Church as the Piskies labor to keep actual believing Christians out of a Church facility… so they can sell it to Muslims for conversion into a mosque. Read more

A small request, I’d appreciate some prayers from you. A theater in New York is currently considering a play of mine for their 2011 season. So far they’ve called it “entertaining stuff”, so I am cautiously optimistic. This could work out really well for me. No need to post this to the blog, as it is pathetically small potatoes compared to what many are going through. Though if you could ask for prayers for my wife and her family, I’d... Read more

looks like a cool band. They were, alas, here last night and I missed them. I do feel an impulse to head up to Mount Vernon and hear them Friday night. Can’t go wrong with Cajun. Anybody here familiar with Natalie MacMaster? She’s a fiddler from Cape Breton, Nova Scotia and shares (surprisingly) similar musical roots (since the Cajun originated in Canada and brought their musical traditions down to Louisiana). Anyway, she rocks, in case you didn’t know. Years ago,... Read more