A reader writes (sorry, my stupid comboxes won’t let my link) about Thiessen’s recent attempt to act as Court Prophet for Torture: I’ve only scanned the comments, but I watched the interview. Let me say that I’m a hardened neocon, though a Catholic first. But I’ve got to say that Thiessen was committing the classic error of confusing the (valid) principle of double effect with the (invalid) theory of consequentialism. Consequentialism says that when you do an intrinsically evil act,... Read more

My shills and lackeys! Rejoice with me, for I have found a video of the immortal Rutabaga Boogie. Could there be a better way to start Lent? I submit there cannot! That is all! Read more

and I think Darwin Catholic sums things up perfectly: One of the things Palin has unquestionably achieved (to her sorrow) is giving the hard left a chance to show the entire country how utterly despicable and hateful the “caring” party can be. The behavior of the vicious moral cripples who deliberately mock a little boy with Down’s Syndrome in order to score political points against a politician they dislike demonstrates more clearly than any argument how repellent the Thing That... Read more

Is it ever too early to tell our children of the wonders of anal sex? No! say the geniuses of education in Ontario. Children there not only may but *must* be force-fed gay agitprop in school. Have I mentioned we homeschool? Read more

What’s not to love? Read more

A reader writes: Several weeks ago I e-mailed you to request prayer for a relative of mine facing a difficult situation. You were kind enough to post it on your blog, and some of your readers responded. I am pleased to tell you that the situation in question has been resolved about as favorably as it could have been, so I wanted to offer my thanks to you and to the other folks who took the time to pray about... Read more

continues here and here. Read more

In which we continue looking at the Hail Mary. Read more

I was reading Ratzinger’s _What It Means to be a Christian_ — a provocatively titled collection of sermons he gave a while ago, meditating on the meaning of Advent. It has been something of a spiritual bombshell for my wife and me. Among the many treasures therein, Ratzinger consistently strips away the layers of obfuscation we like to interpose between Christ’s words and our ears. I came across this passage, which was a dead ringer for JPII and your own... Read more

“Bet you hadn’t thought of our era as a boom time for priestly vocations.” The girl keeps throwing a spanner in the works of the standard “Everything sucks since Vatican II” narrative so beloved by some in the Church. It turns out not everywhere is suburban America. We may just have to knuckle under to the dreadful possibility of hope. Fact are stubborn things. – John Adams Read more