I think he’s on to something, of course. He sums up the problem when he says that liberalism “began as an attempt to moderate the influence of religion in politics, [but] ends by establishing itself as a religion.” My only qualification on that is, “If that’s what liberalism does, then The Thing that Used to Be Conservatism is just another species of liberalism.” After all, it too makes claims on the allegiance of Christians and tries to elevate its preferred... Read more

is one of our local saints here in Seattle. I have a friend who once had lunch with Fr. Peter Smith, whose miraculous healing was one of the evidences used in her canonization. How miraculous? Pretty dang. Read more

notes the curious coincidence between Rome’s lack of fatwas and its inverse relationship to the courage of Roland Emmerich. Also, a nice compare and contrast analysis between the work of Emmerich and Michael Bay in the horse race for King of Schlock. Read more

John Shelby Spong gets something right! Namely, the whole “Jesus never existed” thing seems stone blind to the fact that the entire story of Jesus is something that nobody would have invented in the first place. We’ve got oodles of hero stories from antiquity. They don’t look like the story of Jesus. Why? Because the gospel writers are constrained by hard facts. If you are going to creatre a god figure, you don’t have him hail from Bugtussle, Oklahoma or... Read more

Local Seattle Jazz artist. We’ve just corresponded a bit because she’s entering the Catholic Church. She had a link to her site and I gave her music a taste. Yummy! One nice thing about being Catholic is, in a communion of a billion people, you wind up with a lot of folks who have awesome musical gifts–something I sadly lack. Read more

I am a student at Oxford University, Great Britain, reading French & Hebrew. Next year I will be spending a few months abroad in Israel, and would like to do something associated with my Catholic faith, but I have no idea where to start looking. I hoped that you might know of some Catholic (or at least “worthwhile”) organisations or projects I could get involved with in the Holy Land….. anything from Scripture Study to charitable work – the only... Read more

is “millstone“, not “milestone”. Read more

that if Dr. Demento ever decides to broadcast in the former Iron Curtain nations, he will have a ready audience: Read more

Michael Moore criticizes capitalism for being what it sometimes is: ruthlessly opposed to the gospel of Jesus Christ. He, being Michael Moore, naturally draws dumb conclusions from this but, not to be outdone, defenders of capitalism are now attempting the feat of elevating capitalism to a cornerstone of God’s Revealed Truth to the Nations, thereby proving Moore’s point about the dangers of capitalism and its current proponents, who have a very difficult time telling the difference between the gospel of... Read more

A St. Albert’s Day Lecture from the Good People of the Dominican Order Read more