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Hound Principled Priest. Gay couple demands sacrifice of principle to their personal convenience. The priest responds here. Your prayers for him as he gets crucified in the press would be good. Read more

Dawn Eden sends this along: The opposite practice of the Catholic and the Baptist churches, in their treatment of the new-born infant, may be well compared to the conduct of the true and the false mother who both claimed the child at the tribunal of Solomon. The king exclaimed: “Divide the living child in two, and give half to the one and half to the other.” The pretended mother consented, saying: Let it be neither mine nor thine, but divide... Read more

What will heaven be like? Read more

Exhibit A: The Economist does a big story on how abortion has selectively killed millions of girls in China. Conclusion: abortion should be safe and legal. Oh, and “rare” it adds a sop to their blood-stained consciences. In other news, Jack Daniels tells Alcoholics Anonymous that they should be allowed to offer unlimited free booze at their meetings, and that they trust that attendees will be able to moderate their intake and make drunkeness “rare”. Exhibit B: Slate columnist identifies... Read more

…with its own money. Murder Inc. supporters badger the group. Because “choice” mean “Kill the Kid. Period. Or we will punish you.” Read more

fortunately, they were just Christians and doubtless had it coming. So no harm done. Read more

A reader writes: Could you comment in public on the Catholic position on Stillpoint and CV-4 technique? I witnessed a priest (I think) making use of this at a public blessing mission event. The priest knew a head of time that people would be falling over because he had local parish men all ready instructed as to how to catch the people when they would fall backwards. The men would stand behind the individual who was asking for blessing and... Read more

…the King of Spain and abortion law. Turns out it’s not so simple for prolifers to just order up an excommunication. Read more

Apparently there’s some sort of commission being headed up by somebody named Cdl. Ruini and the local ordinary at Medugorje is being summoned to Rome to give his view of things. My interest in ecclesial politics being minimal, I have no idea who Ruini is or what it all portends, but for those who care about this sort of thing: there it is. Read more