“Barack Obama is the most powerful writer since Julius Caesar” It is true that Barack Obama has, at his fingertips, more power than all the Caesars who ever lived could have ever imagined. But the NEA bootlicker a) says that like it’s a good thing and b) says it as though this makes Obama a, not merely a great writer, but the greatest writer in 2000 years. More hilarity from the the Amateur Administration. It seems to be filled with... Read more

I never can predict how things I write will affect people. I assumed yesterday’s piece for Inside Catholic would get a mix of a) people denouncing me for my crude superstition because I take seriously Catholic warnings about the devil; b) a few denunciations from people who object to associating the devil with Their Favorite Grave Sins; and c) assorted other commentary. Instead, I get this heart-wringing complaint (both in the combox and in my private email): Years ago, I... Read more

In which we sketch two ways of not thinking and compare them with Catholic common sense. Read more

Stephen Haliczer writes: I would like to ask you to take a look at the College of DuPage Press website Explore Church History. The site is new and compliments and extends Vatican board game by relating its content to a huge data base covering all aspects of church history (about 50% of card content is searchable). The game therefore becomes a portal into the entirety of church history rather than a stand alone product. If you will look on the... Read more

…screams at traffic. Read more

In which we contemplate the last of the petitions in the Our Father. Read more

So many sheep without! So many wolves within! Read more

I once had a conversation with Rabbi Daniel Lapin in which he talked about the weird phenomenon of secular Jews whose sacred meal is the bagel not Passover, whose sacred text is the New York Times not Torah, and who sacred event is the Holocaust, not the Exodus. What drove him crazy was that, having jettisoned all that was actually Jewish, they mysteriously clung to a weird hatred of Christians that, while understandable in a 17th Century shtetl or ghetto,... Read more

Whenever the MSM deals with matters of anti-Catholic prejudice, it will never occur to the MSM journalist that he or she may fundamentally misunderstand what they are talking about. All confusion will be ascribed to faults in the subject, not in the writer’s understanding of the subject. So, for instance, when a MSM writer discovers that Galileo fathered two nuns, that cannot be because Galileo considered himself a faithful Catholic and a scientist till the day he died and saw... Read more

…as tentacle is cut off. Not a good week for Scientology. It will be interesting to see how this plays out. With real, you know, religions you have things like revelation and traditions and what not, such that you can’t change the tenets of the religion just to suit whatever is trendy at the moment. But Scientology is such an obvious fake, cobbled together from scraps of bad science fiction and so suffused with a marketing-as-evangelization ethos that I wonder... Read more