A Canadian reader writes: I came across this article at an excellent Québec’ website called “Point de Bascule” (tipping point). The column is about religious conversions in Kosovo and since it’s in french, I’ll do a quick resumé. The article states that in 2008 hundreds of Kosovar Muslims began converting to the Roman Catholic faith. It cites one Kosovar, Ismet Sopi, as saying that for the first time in his life none of the 32 members of his family will... Read more

One of my brother seminarians has left the seminary and he’s in pretty bad shape. I know he could use a ton of prayers. Thanks. Father, hear our prayer for your son through Christ our Lord. Amen. Mother Mary, pray for him and obtain for him the grace to soldier on toward the Light of Christ. Read more

A 400 year old Spanish Poor Clare community that is bulging at the seams. The reason: A joyful loved relationship with Jesus. Lovely story! Read more

…can be annoying. And not always in a good way. Read more

The Large Hadron Collider’s attempts to find the God Particle have fallen upon a series of unlikely catastophes which have prompted some physicists to speculate that the creation of a Higg-Boson particle is so much in violation of the laws of nature that it is sending waves back through time to prevent itself from being created. There was a time when I would have said this was science fiction. But after the latest catastrophe, in which a bird dropped a... Read more

there is no more horrible evil in the universe than profiling. Innocent Americans must simply be expected to watch their children die in perfectly preventable bloodbaths in order to protect Muslims from the horror of profiling. Meanwhile, as media Talking Hairdos furrow their brows and wonder whether Islam had anything to do with this most recent act of carnage, Hasan’s imam drops ever-so-subtle clues that there *might* be a connection here: Nidal Hassan [sic] is a hero. He is a... Read more

Spectacular healing obtained through Newman’s intercession. I always wonder why materialists just turn a blind eye to such things. The responses always seem to be stuff like “Unless everybody everywhere is healed of every ailment, then this is not a miracle” or “I’m not looking” or “The Amazing Randi debunked this thing over here, so that thing over there can be ignored” or “When something inexplicable like this happens in response to prayer, I will invoke Really Big Numbers and... Read more

with or without Stupak Amendment. All the Dems have to do is give up their sole core commitment: zeal for the sacrament of abortion. But sin makes you stupid and they will kill the bill before backing down on their most cherished sin. Read more

I’ve lost a bit a respect for Notre Dame University lately as I know many people have. But just now as I was watching a bit of the ND vs. Navy football game, they ran a most awesome commercial. Not just a commercial, but more like a 3 minute long super promotional recruiting commercial. It was all about the adult stem cell research they’re doing using zebra fish to try and restore vision to individuals going blind or already there,... Read more

because Catholics are allowed a say in democratic process. Similarly, gay marriage advocates are now expressing their disgust with the idea that people should be allowed a say in how we order the common good. Democracy, we consistently discover, is overrated when lefties don’t get their way. Read more