The latest AXE COP is up! Also, there’s this: Read more

…of secularists who continually loot the theistic tradition for morality and then call the stolen goods “secular values”. The New Atheists are past masters at this, but basically every secularist is doing the same thing: covertly assuming the goods that they prefer to be somehow transcendant and “self-evident” while simultaneously trying to pretend that we live in a universe of pure impersonal Is. It’s a shell game. You can be a moral person without believing in God. But you cannot... Read more

My teenage daughter seems to have a fairly persistent interest in joining the military. I’m not a pacifist, but I’m wondering, Is it legitimate to join the armed forces, knowing that you may be asked to fight in an unjust war, or commit unjust actions during even a war entered into for just reasons? Of course you could go into it intending to judge as you go along whether your superiors’ orders are legitimate, and being willing to take the... Read more

but not for me. Read more

…is a alleged expert in “frontier health, natural systems, alchemy, metaphysics and ancient history, and also has degrees and certifications in science, wilderness expedition leadership, natural healing and building. She is a mythic cosmologist, global strategist, clairvoyant healer, Earth advocate, and artist.” She also says she was targeted by “time travel surveillance and attempted manipulation by trained intelligence agents attached to a Mars colony project”. It just gets better from there. Don’t miss the comboxes. Comedy gold. And so very... Read more

I hope you don’t mind my emailing you privately about this. I have been learning so much from you series on Mary at IC. A question came up in the comments and I was wondering if you had addressed it previously that I missed or would possibly be including it in a future column. Even those of us Prots who are not largely ignorant anti-Catholics, those of us who are friendlier towards Rome, even if we haven’t found our way... Read more

In which we discuss the individualist ethos the infects both Protestant and Catholic in the US. I wonder how many Catholics leave the Church out of sheer loneliness each year? Read more

Where freedom of religion means Caesar says “We are free to tax you and you are free to shut up.” Read more

…to sundry hysterical and shrill denunciations of his common sense remarks about Medugorje with…. more common sense. Defenders of Medugorje do not cover themselves in glory or credibility with these tactics. Read more

This is pretty funny. Apparently, CPAC, fresh from booing Bob Barr for calling waterboarding by its proper name, had some sort of presidential straw poll in which Ron Paul was the winner. Apparently, the fact that Paul is even more plain-spoken about our Orwellian torture policies under Bush did not deter 31% of the crowd from picking him. This is not at all to the liking of the mucky mucks of the Thing That Used to be Conservatism:David Frum, author... Read more