His sister is gravely ill with cancer. Father, hear our prayer that Ruthie would be granted healing from cancer through your Son Jesus Christ. Grant grace, strength and consolation to her and all who love her by the power of your Spirit. Mother Mary, St. Luke and St. Peregrine, pray for them and for her caregivers that they would be skilled and wise in their treatment. Amen. Read more

Have read him meself, but I figure he’s gotta have something on the ball if he loves Chesterton. Read more

Turns out he was not only a happily married heterosexual male with some theories about the Sacred Feminine, he was also a super intelligent gay man in the image and likeness of Elton John! Who could possibly have foreseen this startling discovery! Read more

It’s really this simple: the barbarization of the conservative movement is being pressed forward by people like Dick Cheney (whose is zealously promoting his legacy of war crimes as a positive good) and organizations like CPAC are falling in right behind him. Now we have Marc Thiessen selling this poison in EWTN and Raymond Arroyo eagerly assisting. More than this, we have Thiessen now abandoning any pretense that the Rubber Hose Right advocates torture only in extreme situations like the... Read more

Hey you Catholics, the kwazy Interwebz is all a-flutter over the Vatican’s recently published list of top ten desert island rock albums! Here’s the story. With all the obvious religious punnery comes the stunned mainstream media surprise that anyone in the Papal States would listen to anything other than heavenly hosts of angelic choirs, Charlotte Church, or possibly even your middle school chorus caterwauling “Our God is an Awesome God” for the 100th time. Those wacky Catholic L’Osservatore Romano reporters,... Read more

Uncle Screwtape exults that the great thing is to get a man’s soul and give him nothing in return. I think of that as I read this story: Canadians have been sold a bill of goods by spies, shadowy diplomats and pundits, warning that modern-day terrorism changes the rules of the game. Their pitch goes something like this: Terrorism is not like other crimes but is sui generis. Terrorists are monsters. Less personal privacy and more government secrecy will keep... Read more

are not the disgusting horndogs our Manufacturers of Culture keep trying to make them in order to render them more exploitable. Disappointing news to abortionists and soulless capitalists interested only in making a buck, good news for human beings. Read more

Nobody will lend your kid a computer and then use to spy on you in your home. Read more

Human beings are our greatest resources. We should have more of them and stop kiling the ones we have. Put me down a Cornucopian. Read more

Torture Defender Greta scrapes the absolute bottom of the barrel over at the Coalition for Clarity comboxes as she strives to find a justification for committing grave sins that send you to Hell so that she can save her skin: I ask again to show me anywhere in the gospels Christ was taking his disciples on a protest march against crucifixion and everything done to him in the Passion. He was tortured and yet where was the protest. Yet there... Read more