There’s a new book out called Imaginary Jesus that plays around with some of the ideas I tried to get at years ago in my piece “The Latest Real Jesus“. Check thou it out. Read more

Here he is stepping in for the Big Guy with some deeply illiterate misreadings of the Ten Commandments, followed by a new set reflecting precisely the culture in which he lives and deriving completely–and at the same time selectively–from the supernature he denies. The trouble with guys like Hitchens is their combination of absolute contempt for their source material coupled with their total reliance on it. They take their own notions as self-evident while never grasping for one second that,... Read more

A reader writes from the Netherlands: In recent weeks, a widespread and very nasty attack has been mounted against the Catholic Church here, following the decision of a parish priest, after due pastoral consideration, not to give Communion to an openly homosexual man. That snowballed into a media circus in which people sued the aforementioned priest and the diocese he’s in, as well as other priests supporting him, Mass was used a venue for demonstrations, and the media jump at... Read more

Why can’t twelve year old see pirate movies? Cuz they’re rated RRRRRRRRRR. Your dumb joke for the day. Feel free to contribute more below. Read more

My local church and the churches in the surrounding towns all seem to have stopped giving the Blood of Christ to parishoners. This began even before the swine flu scare and it has been bothering me for some time. Are they allowed to just drop this tradition like that? More importantly am I missing a portion of Christ? Here’s the Catechism: 1390 Since Christ is sacramentally present under each of the species, communion under the species of bread alone makes... Read more

A reader writes: My wife and I wish to thank you for your continued prayers (we are longtime readers, and have sent prayer requests in the past). We have experienced two miscarriages in the past 18 months, and thought we were in the middle of another one in early January. We went in for an ultrasound at 6.5 weeks and were told by our doctor that we would miscarry. However, now at 11.5 weeks we went in for another ultrasound... Read more

Red paint! My new favorite dumb joke! Read more

The latest updates on the Vampire Moon Warriors from the Moon are up, as well as Axe Cop’s answer to the musical question, “What if you got rich?” Read more

reportedly abused two of his own kids. More carnage for the Legionary investigators to subject to a thorough autopsy to find out who knew what. The allegedly abused sons sought reparations from the Legion and got squat. Nothing’s proven so far, but given the grotesque Maciel’s monstrous track record and the record of the Machine he designed and built to protect himself… More details on this sickening man and this latest aspect of his sickening story here. Read more

There is something very high school about HuffPo’s treatment of… well, most everything. But, in particular, the notion that this hothouse of monochromatic groupthink is “diverse” when it comes to religion reminds me of nothing so much as the cheer squad imagining that “ethnic diversity” means letting a brunette come to tryouts. Read more