My mother has a collection of Santa Claus figurines that she brings out this time of year. I thought I might get here a good book on the real Santa Claus, Nicholas. I see Bill Bennett has a new book called “The True Saint Nicholas: Why He Matters to Christmas.” I wonder if any of your other astute readers might recommend this or another title as a Catholic and catholic read on the life of the good and holy saint.... Read more

My mother has a collection of Santa Claus figurines that she brings out this time of year. I thought I might get here a good book on the real Santa Claus, Nicholas. I see Bill Bennett has a new book called “The True Saint Nicholas: Why He Matters to Christmas.” I wonder if any of your other astute readers might recommend this or another title as a Catholic and catholic read on the life of the good and holy saint.... Read more

with the whole Climate Change thing. More babykilling. Somehow, the conventional wisdom of the modern era, both left and right, always ends in our need to ignore the teaching of the Church and murder as many innocent people as we can before we drop our current panic and move on to a new urgent reason for ignoring the Church and murdering more innocents. Forty years ago, we needed to kill innocents in order to avert the population bomb and the... Read more

You can have casual sex with no emotional wreckage! All you have to do is a) lie to researchers and/or b) remain under the age of 24 forever. The rest of you with the vast wasteland of emotional wreckage: we don’t want to hear about it. We’re building a sexular American paradise and we’re busy exporting it to the world. Shut up! Read more

whine about their sufferings during the holidays. This is why the number of atheists to the population is never more than a small percentage. Most people are not this dramatically self-involved and bitter over the happiness of others. There’s a ruthless, sleepless, unsmiling concentration on self in evangelical atheism that shouts “personality disorder”, not “cool dedication to reason”. A shrink, not the hothouse of other evangelical atheists, is what these folks need. Read more

A reader writes: I have been really sick and am recovering from successful colon cancer surgery (at least that is what the doctors say). I sold my house and am in temporary apartment with most belongings in storage. My ex-husband has me in a costly lawsuit to take away a tiny amount of alimony. If the court does so, I don’t know what will happen as far as getting a house.’ I know your readership prays for those who ask.... Read more

….provide dull true explanation for tantalizing mystery. Read more

It’s not Christmas yet. Read more

The Mysterious Geographic Explorations of Jasper Morello — This one runs a little less than 30 min. It’s a Victorian Steampunkish gothic thriller from Australia that makes use of silhouette cutouts and CGI. Flying steamships, a vicious plague, blood-sucking beasties, and an evil doctor add up to cartoonish Alienseque terror. Read more

A reader writes: I’m taking law school exams right now, and have been struggling with them. Not very dramatic, but doing well in law school means being able to support my family comfortably. Thanks! Father, hear our prayer that this reader’s studies will go well and he can prosper and support his family through Jesus Christ our Lord. Mother Mary, seat of Wisdom, pray for him! Read more