Due to logistics, we shall enjoy the blessings of a pagan baby grand-daughter for a few more weeks. However, Lucy is a good little girl and would never worship false gods. She’ll be baptized after the Noon Mass. Read more

Due to logistics, we shall enjoy the blessings of a pagan baby grand-daughter for a few more weeks. However, Lucy is a good little girl and would never worship false gods. She’ll be baptized after the Noon Mass. Read more

A reader writes Here is a story that plays into a thread I know you have followed, the public education abuse crisis. It seems to me there should be a Pulitzer prize out there for somebody to actually take these stories seriously, put them in one volume and shine some light on the issue. A local columnist in Worcester decided to scratch (however timidly) the surface of the story in Massachusetts, but leaves the most important questions unasked (and not... Read more

A reader writes Here is a story that plays into a thread I know you have followed, the public education abuse crisis. It seems to me there should be a Pulitzer prize out there for somebody to actually take these stories seriously, put them in one volume and shine some light on the issue. A local columnist in Worcester decided to scratch (however timidly) the surface of the story in Massachusetts, but leaves the most important questions unasked (and not... Read more

The formidably gifted Aimee Cooper writes: My Catholic Gospel Message class has been going great. I had 100+ students in the spring course, over 70 of them by distance, from all around the country and a few internationally. Several were parish and diocesan staff. I’ve heard great stories from students about how they’ve used the material to explain the gospel message, according to the fullness of Catholic understanding, to friends or family members, with great results, people asking to learn... Read more

for Tarantino’s next film. I have this notion that Tarantino might not get that he’s speaking tongue in cheek. Read more

Personhood Initiative Drive for 2010. Go team! Read more

May God have mercy on your soul. Champion of abortion given dutiful send-off by lickspittle press. Irresponsible manslaughter of Mary Jo Kopechne referred to as “indiscretion“. The usual. God’s mercy is great and I pray it for him through Christ our Lord. But I don’t equate it with ABC’s ritual whitewash. Read more

…in response to my latest piece (“Who Art in Heaven“) over at Inside Catholic: There are many ways to experience a sense of Heaven. My own was a dream on a plane while listening to Mahler’s Fourth Symphony, in which I had died and gone to heaven. I awoke to angelic singing, so I thought, but it was the soprano in the fourth movement. It was months later before I looked up the translation of the lyrics:Das himmlische Leben(aus Des... Read more

…in response to my latest piece (“Who Art in Heaven“) over at Inside Catholic: There are many ways to experience a sense of Heaven. My own was a dream on a plane while listening to Mahler’s Fourth Symphony, in which I had died and gone to heaven. I awoke to angelic singing, so I thought, but it was the soprano in the fourth movement. It was months later before I looked up the translation of the lyrics:Das himmlische Leben(aus Des... Read more