A reader writes: I need a prayer for my friend Oswal who is 18 and fighting for his life tonight doctors dont’t know what’s wrong and they don’t think he will make it Father, hear our prayer for Oswal. Grant him life and grant skill to his caregivers. Grant also your grace and peace to his friends and all who love him, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Mother Mary and St. Luke, pray for him. Read more

for verily he rocketh! Read more

get taken to the woodshed. Read more

as a sop, here’s my piece on the seventh commandment over at Catholic Exchange. Back later. Oh! And here’s a cool piece by Jimmy Akin on why we owe the tale of Frankenstein to a volcano! This is Jimmy at his coolest. Ciao till later, dudes and dudettes. Read more

and a partial retraction. Last week, I let Fr. Brian Harrison have it with both barrels after stewing over a NY Times piece in which Marc Thiessen cited him as a Catholic theologian who agreed with his egregious apologetics for waterboarding and Bush/Cheney torture policies. While I still disagree with Fr. Harrison on the matter of the intrinsic immorality of torture and about the merits of Thiessen’s grotesque claim that waterboarding is not torture, after corresponding with Fr. Harrison, I... Read more

Enough is enough! Thank you for taking a principled stand, Jay! Read more

that waterboarding is not torture: Self-proclaimed waterboarding fan Dick Cheney called it a no-brainer in a 2006 radio interview: Terror suspects should get a “a dunk in the water.” But recently released internal documents reveal the controversial “enhanced interrogation” practice was far more brutal on detainees than Cheney’s description sounds, and was administered with meticulous cruelty. Interrogators pumped detainees full of so much water that the CIA turned to a special saline solution to minimize the risk of death, the... Read more

…is on his final journey. His cancer is terminal and, barring a miracle, he is estimated to have between six months and year to live. Your prayers for him would be appreciated. Father, give Michael the grace to endure what is yet to come and to open his heart to cooperate as fully as he can with the grace of your Son Jesus Christ. Grant his family strength and grace and provide for their needs in this hard time. Mother... Read more

Could run a question on your blog for me please? Our eldest is preparing for Confirmation and he is required by Archdiocese of DC mandate to attend a class on sexuality called Life Choices SHARE Program. It’s part of a daylong retreat (9 AM to 9 PM) program, and this portion is actually being taught by the local CareNet Crisis Pregnancy Center – which, in and of itself makes me nervous, since the CPC is heavily of the Evangelical Protestant... Read more

Hi! I’m shamelessly sending out a mass e-mail to let you know of a new website/blog style that Bryan and I set up in order to chronicle our journey with our youngest, Joshua. We are also attaching an Amazon store as soon as we are able and do some affiliate marketing so as to supplement Joshua’s diet and invest for his teenage eating habits. He puts quite a lot of food away for a 3 year old! Check it out... Read more