In honor of the goofiness of merry-making in the spirit of the Season, I offer you a Beatles Christmas: That is all! Read more

…and fills their fans with wonderment at just how many musicians they can cram into that little tiny studio in the course of making a recording. The thing Christmas is supposed to be more of is the celebration of the Incarnation of the Son of God. That’s the definite and concrete good news in answer to the vague inchoate disappointment expressed in this odd little song. On the bright side, I like the whole “buy a goat” idea. And here’s... Read more

Tempt and Condemn. Golly, who could ever have predicted that if you throw men and women into a combat zone and put them under prolonged high stress, they would start having sex in their spare time? Or that it would lead to pregnancy? Clearly the answer is to punish women. But not men. Clearly, the answer will soon be to put the blame where it really belongs: on the baby. And the punishment will be, just as clearly, death. Especially,... Read more

Behold! The Krispy Kreme Bacon Cheeseburger Deluxe. Preachers are supposed to change hearts by the power of the word of God, not by inducing myocardial infarction, Padre. Read more

piece on Mary allegedly appearing in Egypt in hopes that somebody here knows more. I ain’t heard nuttin’, but that’s just me. I’m always rather leery of stuff on Spirit Daily since it’s a site that might better be advertised as Credulity Daily. But, of course, the thing about the hyper-credulous is that sometimes, like Luna Lovegood, they are right and there really are nargles. Spirit Daily may see Mary appearing all over the place and miraculous events taking place... Read more

Practitioners of the Paranoid Style in American Politics dredge up the Infamous Jesuit Oath (“it’s in the Congressional Record you know”) and do a little ambush journalism on the Black Pope, whose deer in the headlight expression is the perfect counterpoint to the paranoid Know Nothing nut from We are Change LA. For people who actually want to try to understand things, the Jesuit Oath is a rather easy to trace forgery whose origins you can determine with a little... Read more

This is from a letter from Ted Naff that is making the rounds: Our dear friend Perry Lorenzo died Saturday night after several months of battling cancer. He was courageous and faithful in his resignation to God’s will in his final months. He told us during this past summer that if it be God’s will that he be healed, he would even more fervently dedicate himself to education, as he had throughout his rich life. If it not be God’s... Read more

I’m hoping you might be able to help me find some information. A couple months ago, perhaps as early as July 2009, I read a brief article about a US Bishop who elaborated on 4 or 5 principles. These principles were related to either an increase in Church attendance or vocations, or perhaps both. Unfortunately, I only remember reading them and being amazed that someone else was thinking the same thing I did. What struck me was that his first... Read more

I’m hoping you might be able to help me find some information. A couple months ago, perhaps as early as July 2009, I read a brief article about a US Bishop who elaborated on 4 or 5 principles. These principles were related to either an increase in Church attendance or vocations, or perhaps both. Unfortunately, I only remember reading them and being amazed that someone else was thinking the same thing I did. What struck me was that his first... Read more

A reader asks: I have some tough meetings ahead and a hard deadline next week that’s hard to keep and costs me my job if I can’t. Father, hear our prayer through your Son Jesus Christ. Read more