It’s a bit short notice, but I will be speaking at Sacred Heart parish in Manassas, VA on November 13-14. If you’d like to have me come to your parish while I’m in the area, let me know by October 20 and I will arrange my flight schedule accordingly! You can go to my speaking information to find out about the various topics I’m available to speak about. Hope we can work something out! Just FYI, I have a window... Read more

…is the catastrophe of a scientifically illiterate population which will surely slide into utter ruin if every single American does not believe and confess the theory of evolution and (most important) the atheistic materialism that undergirds the constant public expositions of the doctrine. All this is done, of course, with the claim that this is all about science, critical thinking, reason, rationalism, etc. blah blah. Curiously, nobody says this sort of stuff about those who don’t know or care about... Read more

A reader writes: I just got word that my classmate and past shipmate only has two months to live because of 2 tumors in his brain. He’s only 39 or 40 years old. He has a wife and young son, 2 ½ yrs old. His name is John Paul Dailey. We call him JP. Father, hear our prayer for the healing of your servant and grant his family strength and consolation in this hour. If you do not heal him,... Read more

In response to my blog entry below about testosterone-driven Orthodox apologetics (which bears an uncanny resemblance to testosterone-driven Catholic apologetics) the gracious and classy Fr. Gregory writes: Mark thank you for your observations about misguided apologist–East and West, Orthodox, Catholic and Protestants. Whether or not the polemics on the site you link do or do not reflect the views of “a small percentage of triumphalists” is an empirical question for which we have no data. But whether or not the... Read more

It forces people to make crazy and stupid statement that fit the ideological box rather than reality. So, for instance, as ideological wingnuttery transforms “government is the problem” from a mere aphorism to an All Explaining Dogma about Everything, you get the spectacle of an educated person declaring: STEVE WYNN: ‘Gov’t never increased standard of living of one single human being in civilization’s history’… Of course, the first and most obvious conclusion from this observation, if it were true, is... Read more

Please pray for Deacon Ken Donohue of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton parish in Anchorage, AK, who is undergoing chemo for pancreatic cancer. He’s a real trooper and his parish (and family) love him dearly. It was an honor to get to know him at the retreat and he soldiered on in spite of deep weariness brought on by the chemo. Father, hear the prayers of your people for Deacon Ken that he may make a full recovery and continue to... Read more

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has released another joint Catholic/Evangelical declaration called “Do Whatever He Tells You — A Statement of Evangelicals and Catholic Thought”. It’s on the Blessed Virgin Mary and marks another moment in the ongoing sea change that is taking place in the Evangelical re-assessment of Our Lady in the life of the Church and of the individual Christian. It’s not online yet but I’m sure it will be. This sort of thing is, in no small part, why I wrote Mary,... Read more

on the spectacle of a sexually deranged culture’s selective outrage. I was not aware that Benedict had handed Raymond Lahey his walking papers the next day. Good for him! Meanwhile, a suffering Hollywood holds lonely vigil for Roman Polanski while our Chattering Classes offer courageous broadsides against the philistines who care about some stupid 13 year old rape victim. Cuz they are *all about* decency and compassion and besides he’s, you know, the Right Sort of Roman. Read more

I met a delightful woman at Theology on Tap (an old friend of John C. Wright’s) who was a convert from neo-paganism. We chatted for a while and when I asked her why she converted she basically remarked that the Catholic faith actually had a real history whereas neo-paganism is just a bunch of crap people made up a few years ago and then tried to pretend was “ancient”. That fact has always struck me as well. What has struck... Read more