In which we continue to look at the Hail Mary. Read more

…from the WaPo. Here’s the Paper of Our Nation’s Capitol hosting somebody named Carole Joffe, professor at the Bixby Center for Global Reproductive Health at the University of California, San Francisco. That’s pretty much all you need to know in order to accurately predict that she will, natch, be the author of Dispatches from the Abortion Wars: The Costs of Fanaticism to Doctors, Patients, and the Rest of Us. And that is all you need to know to be sure... Read more

are close to extinction. That would be a Church that has been there since the 4th century. Close to extinction. In American-occupied Iraq. Tragically, the attitude of most American Christians is basically indifference. Some in my comboxes have even said, “They had it coming.” CCC 2309 The strict conditions for legitimate defense by military force require rigorous consideration. The gravity of such a decision makes it subject to rigorous conditions of moral legitimacy. At one and the same time: –... Read more

Nothing. Boy, I hope these gatherings become annual. I’d love to come to one in about 25 years. It will be a dazzling a social event as the annual meeting of the Zager and Evans Forever Fan Club. Atheism is a period fever that grips crazed ideologues who imagine themselves the Wave of the Future. Such people inevitably end up looking like pasty-faced Soviet bureaucrats who have given up on life. Read more

remarks on the social changes in the country that Used to be England. “I regret the downgrading of the father as a person of importance – the legislative dismissal of the contribution of half the population to the upbringing of the next generation.” Oh, we haven’t even gotten started on the regrets part of this insane social experiment. Read more

A reader writes: Please pray for my friend whose stressful job is on the verge of killing her, that God would lead her to a way out of her situation so that she can fulfill her vocation. Also, please pray for my friend who has has been unable to find a job for months, and his wife who has cancer. Father, hear our prayer through our Lord Jesus Christ! Mother Mary, Saint Joseph, Saint Luke and Saint Peregrine, pray for... Read more

…must be constantly bombarded with continual demands from the Excommunication-Happy in the laity. Seems like hardly a day passes when some self-appointed bishop in a combox doesn’t demand that this or that public figure be excommunicated, which is sort of like somebody with Boy Scout training in first aid running around prescribing limb amputations for cuts, scrapes and scratches. People don’t seem to realize how serious excommunication is and what a dreadful and desperate expedient it is. Ed Peters does.... Read more

is about to get her just recognition. Sherry has told her story for years. Among other things, it has a dampening effect on the whole, “If we could only repeal the Council and turn back the clock a hundred years” meme so popular in some circles of the Church. Read more

With all the hysteria from our political classes and the continual and constant counsels of fear, panic, and despair from the Things That Used to be Liberalism and Conservatism, it’s nice to hear the Anchoress reiterating the sound counsel of Pope John Paul II: Be not afraid. I am beginning to think that, in the present hour, the devil’s preferred method of motivation is fear and panic. This is a strategy change from the days of my youth, when the... Read more

and the ever-more-complex Ninja Werewolf Vampire Ocean Wildlife from the Moon continue. Read more