Periodically, I get readers who are frustrated because they cannot write “CANCEL MY SUBSCRIPTION!”, but who still long to land a punch in profound Christian charity. So they will write to inform me of my shocking evilness/tedious boringness/sundry badness and do their best to either twist the knife or, better still tell me they are not angry really but just… sad over my degeneration. Usually what that means is “You expressed an opinion about X which hurt my feelings because... Read more

In which we puzzle over how the biblical authors viewed Heaven or “the heavenlies” and discover that it doesn’t seem to be quite as simple as we’d supposed. Read more

Courtesy of Mike Flynn, an awesome clip: Read more

John Granger, erstwhile Hogwarts Professor and all around interesting guy, sends this along. I’m not clear on whether he wrote it or is just passing it along, but it seems to me to make the interesting point that modern politics is largely a sort of substitution for mystical religion. I’m not particularly convinced that the Catholic Church has “suppressed” the mystical element in our Tradition (canonizing Padre Pio is a funny way of suppressing the mystical), but I do think... Read more

that Denver Airport is situated over a Hellmouth. Is it Paranoid Art Analysis Week or something? Read more

The Dominicans in Ireland seem to be doing pretty well. But them, you’d expect that, them being Dominican and all. Read more

Solution: Persecute Christians for such trivialities as wearing crosses. England: Where all religions are equally superior to Christianity and the Catholic Faith. Read more

and you elect a Chicago Pol. Better than this, though, is the story that broke yesterday about the Obama attempt to make the artists sucking at the teats of the NEA become propagandists for the Dear Leader. Because nothing says “Boldly challenging the world with a creative and personal vision” like state sponsored agitprop. Read more

that any normal person should feel when contemplating the size of the universe. As Douglas Adams notes, the distance to the local pharmacy is peanuts compared to the size of the universe. Humans, being inveterate poets and incorrigibly religious, can’t help but suffuse their perception of the immensity of the universe with religious significance. But without revelation they can draw all sorts of wrong conclusions. The principal wrong conclusion is the pagan tendency to prostrate oneself before mere size and... Read more

Because the wants of Generation Narcissus and Gen X take precedence over everything in the universe. At least the baby was not aborted. Read more