As a resident of the Diocese of Fresno, I keep a casual eye on Fr. Geoff Farrow. You may recall that this pastor of the local Newman Center came-out of the closet and against CA Prop. 8 on TV in 2008, was promptly removed from ministry, and has gone around promoting gay behavior ever since. I just wanted to pass along that he and some other notable gay activists (including a rep from the anti-religious People for the American Way)... Read more

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Of course, it depends on the sort of person you want to damn. If he is the romantic type, then the approach is to portray betrayal and dishonor as a noble sacrifice for Love. Pop songs are *hugely* helpful in doing the cultural spade work: The trick is to always portray the choice do evil as a noble and self-sacrificial gesture. “If loving you is wrong, I don’t wanna be right”. Of course, this *can* be understood to be a... Read more

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…on the Wolfman. Interesting final line. He’s the guy that gave me the invaluable phrase about the “inescapability of the gospel.” Read more

…all about care for women. Read more

My friend James Preece writes from the country that used to be England: Yesterday our government passed the “Children, Schools and Families” bill which, among other things, will make it illegal for Catholic School *not* to have sex education classes. It also makes it illegal for parents to withdraw their children from these classes once they reach the age of fifteen. To quote our minister for schools… “A Catholic faith school can say to their pupils we believe as a... Read more

…with comfort, ease, and convenience. The Cursed Trinity of godless consumer culture. Read more

Indians are in an uproar right now because some textbook had a picture of Jesus holding a beer and cigarette. I find that odd because there are any number of Christian saints and admired figures who quite enjoyed both beer and tobacco (Chesterton, for instance). I don’t see what is blasphemous per se about depicting Jesus enjoying them. This seems like it would be more blasphemous to Puritans than to Catholics, but the story mentions Catholics in a tizzy about... Read more

link. However as all good Faithful Conservative Catholics know, we are free to totally ignore it for the following reasons: 1. Peace and justice? I mean, come on!2. The Pope has never infallibly defined that waterboarding or electic shocks are torture. So it’s absolutely impossible to even know whether electric shock are torture. Why I used to get electric shocks from my brother after he rubbed his feet on the carpet on very dry winter days. Unless the Pope clearly... Read more