On November 19, if you are in the Seattle area, come check out Greg Wolfe’s talk: “Who’s Afraid of the Renaissance?: The Once and Future Tradition of Christian Humanism” being hosted by the Seattle Chesterton Society (scroll down here for details). If you are north of Seattle that same day, come by St. Cecilia parish in Stanwood, where your obdt svt will be speaking on 101 Reasons Not to Be Catholic at 7:00! Or, if you prefer, on November 21... Read more

on animal intelligence and its applications to science fiction. Read more

Looks interesting, though it says something about our age that it appears to re-envision Number Six as a sort of terrorist working against the happy materialist paradise offered us by Number Two. Could work out to be fine agitprop for the state/corporate machine that is always so discomfited by the God of Abraham and his annoying transcendant claims on the human soul. It should be fun to see Jim Caviezel and Ian McKellen square off. Caviezel’s from Mount Vernon just... Read more

They send out a little thingie basically saying “Support the Stupak Amendment”. This will naturally earn for the them contempt of the Evil Stupid Party whose dogmatic faith in the Separation of Church and Everything persuades them that Catholics have no right to actually exercise freedom of speech in matters like Health Care. It will also earn them the contempt of Stupid Evil Party members who think the Church should just shut up, vote “prolife” and never express any views... Read more

A reader writes: I consider myself as a convinced catholic but I still make my own research to substantiate my convictions. Lately, I was wondering why was it important for the Catholic Church to build certain beliefs from Greek philosophy thus teaching, as for example, the soul’s immortality. Although I am a firm believer of after-life, yet I try to uphold beliefs on Sacred Scripture and Tradition, but on this matter I seem to be missing the script. Can you... Read more

The press does the usual job of victimizing an Islamic butcher It was Major Hasan, though, who increasingly felt let down by the military, and deeply conflicted by his religion, said those who knew him through the mosque. Duane Reasoner Jr., an 18-year-old substitute teacher whose parents worked at Fort Hood, said Major Hassan was told he would be sent to Afghanistan on Nov. 28, and he did not like it. ?He said he should quit the Army,? Mr. Reasoner... Read more

include Facebook invitations to join the “Glenn Beck: 100,000 Fans in 100 Days!!!!” group thingie. Don’t Catholics have something better to do with their time than received massive amounts of quackery from an adult convert to Mormonism? You know, like… learn the Catholic faith? Read more

Yep. Saw the bow. Slept like a baby anyway. Don’t much care. He’s the amateur President. He makes these dumb blunders a lot. As dumb blunders go, I prefer these to, say, plunging us into useless wars that cost hundreds of thousands of lives and inaugurating a regime of legal torture and war crimes. For some reason, the people who have are having hysterics over a stupid bow had no problem making every excuse in the world for the stupidities... Read more

Just a note to let you know about what is, in all likelihood, a perfectly pointless new venture, The League of Bearded Catholics. A casual observer may wonder, “Is it about Beards, or is it about Dead British Guys? Or is it about Catholic culture?” Let me say, “yes”. Of course, there are those who look at the prospect of another monthly meeting and ask “Why?”… I see an excuse to drink beer and ask, “Why not?”. As a bearded... Read more

the GOP is just so freakin’ prolife. Disgusting vile party of hypocrites and exploiters of decent folk. Rather like the Dems, only without the veneer of concern for Christian faith. Read more