for all your Liturgical Tractor and Chant Workshop needs. Read more

Here’s where I’ll be this evening. Hope to see you there! November 19 7:00 PM. St. Cecilia parish, 26900 78th NW, Stanwood WA. Topic: 101 Reasons Not to Be Catholic. Contact John Barnes. And if you can’t make that (or even if you can) here’s where I’ll be on Saturday: November 21 6:30 PM. St. Augustine Parish, Oak Harbor, WA. Topic: Mary, Mother of the Son. Contact: Peggy Smith. Read more

Americans are deep believers in percussive maintenance. We believe that if you slap somebody, they will say, “Thanks! I needed that.” We believe that if John Wayne gets into a huge fist fight with somebody, they will wind up friends at the end. We believe that cathartic acts of violence will be redemptive. So we persuade ourselves that launching an unnecessary war to bring democratic capitalism to Iraq will issue in redemption. And we believe (on the liberal side of... Read more

Douthat gets it: From Glenn Beck to the Tea Parties, much of the energy in the post-Bush G.O.P. is with people who have grasped, albeit sometimes in inchoate ways, that big government and big business are increasingly on one team, and the champions of free markets and limited government are on the other. But they don’t know what to do about it, and what they do seem to know — cutting taxes, and letting the rest take care of itself... Read more

Till yesterday’s eruption from Limbaugh, I hadn’t been paying attention to the whole KSM trial thing. Now that I do, it really puzzles non-lawyerly me. Turns out KSM wanted to just confess to a military tribunal. Seems fair to me. No fuss, no muss. Then put the guy in some Supermax somewhere and throw away the key. (I think executing him is extra-stupid in this case, since it just makes a new martyr for the jihad, whereas… well, when was... Read more

Dems wedge abortion back into health care. Read more

…devotes ***11*** freakin’ reporters to pore over ghost-written piece of self-promotional fluffery. Oddly, AP was AWOL on *both* the self-autobiographical pieces of hagiography written by the then-accomplishment-free Son of Man. (I think we should change their titles to I Obama and II Obama in accord with their imminent inclusion in the New Testament). AP Guys: she lost the election. It’s 2009. The next election isn’t for three years. It doesn’t speak well of your confidence in the Son of Man... Read more

#23. Having your blog linked by a NY Times blogroll. Let me join the swelling chorus of happiness over Ross Douthat’s return to the blogosphere. He’s long been a voice of Catholic common sense, so I’m happy to see him back! Read more

watches as Phase Two of the intellectually fearsome Atheist Bus Sign movement is rolled out in Old Blighty. Turns out parents passing along their most cherished beliefs and ideals to their children is “child abuse” according to the victims of personality disorder known as the New Atheists. This whole “normal human relationships” thing is a difficult concept for these people. Read more

who recently got moved from the Diocese of Harrisburg to South Bend. Now that Sungenis is the only authentic teacher of Truly True Catholicism in Bp. Rhoades’ old post, I guess they decided to put the guy out to pasture by giving him an easy assignment like shepherding the dedicated Catholic pedagogues who administer Notre Dame. Read more