…is sterile. The Faith is fruitful. Read more

Butt out. I can’t say I’m too surprised. Read more

A reader writes: I would ask that you ask your readers to pray for a special intention. This week my college-aged sister confided in me that she was raped at age 13 while coming home from school. Her attacker was a stranger. She never told anyone this before and only told me now because she is afraid about having contracted an STD from the experience (she has never had any other sexual experience). I am glad that she had the... Read more

offers a sensible take on Avatar: Men are reluctant to pass over from the notion of an abstract and negative deity to the living God. I do not wonder. Here lies the deepest tap-root of Pantheism and of the objection to traditional imagery. It was hated not, at bottom, because it pictured Him as man but because it pictured Him as king, or even as warrior. The Pantheist’s God does nothing, demands nothing. He is there if you wish for... Read more

“We’ve already donated to Haiti. It’s called the U.S. income tax.” – Rush Limbaugh, demonstrating once again why the Thing That Used to Be Conservatism keeps losing people. Rush. Dude. Not everything is political. Not everything is about power. Stop, just for a moment, turning everything into some way of scoring points for Team GOP and just say, “Dear Lord! That’s horrible what’s happened in Haiti. Here’s where you can do something to help.” Don’t relate it to Tax Rage.... Read more

It’s not just something about her: it’s everything about her. It’s like she was created in a laboratory for the specific task of driving Jewish liberals around the bend. The hostility is visceral and pre-rational: the loathing comes first and it is only later, if at all, that the loathers can articulate why they find her so repellent. Fascinating. Someday, somebody will do a psych analysis of all this, with a broader look at other groups and individuals who battened... Read more

…celebrates the life of Fr. Daniel Lord, SJ. Read more

Turns out the Haitian earthquake was caused, not by a 200 year old pact with Satan, but by failure at Copenhagen. You will not, however, hear howls of derision over Glover’s contemptible opinion because Gaia is very trendy at present. Only Pat Robertson’s stupid remarks will be noted. Meanwhile, for those of us who don’t claim to understand the problem of evil and who don’t have time to sit around figuring it out because of all the sheer human desperation... Read more

A new blog called “Catholic Koans“. Check thou it out. Read more

bites the dust! Good riddance. Read more