Eliot Bougis writes: I am sending you a link to a “papal florilegium” (or list of quotations about the Roman Pope), which I compiled a couple years ago and have been updating or polishing now and then since that time. Keep in mind it only contains quotations from Eastern Fathers or canonical sources; the Western voices that could be added to this testimony would swell the florilegium to mammoth proportions. Certainly, non-Catholics could, and often do, object to the mishandling... Read more

Eliot Bougis writes: I am sending you a link to a “papal florilegium” (or list of quotations about the Roman Pope), which I compiled a couple years ago and have been updating or polishing now and then since that time. Keep in mind it only contains quotations from Eastern Fathers or canonical sources; the Western voices that could be added to this testimony would swell the florilegium to mammoth proportions. Certainly, non-Catholics could, and often do, object to the mishandling... Read more

Time, space, matter, energy, power, prestige, and funding Perfectly competent science writer gets screwed over for the crime of being a prolife Christian who doubts the Prophet Darwin (pbuh). Read more

Novelist, filmaker, travel documentarian. The guy’s a Renaissance Man! Read more

But then, we live in an insane civilization: As Ed Morrissey points out, this is essentially sneaking FOCA into a ‘healthcare’ bill to give Congress cover. On the bright side, because of Obama, more Americans self-identify as pro-life. And with a Congress as cowardly and duplicitous as this, it may make a dent in their attempts to worship Moloch. Meanwhile, on another lefty front, we are being told that the solution to our woes is, as ever, the elimination of... Read more

of Winnie the Pooh. There is little need, at the present stage of scholarship, to attempt a justiÞcation of the principle that the dogma of unitary authorship for works of literature must be totally abandoned. In all conÞdence we may say that a priori we may expect the Pooh corpus (viz. Winnie-the-Pooh, hereafter abbreviated W, containing traditions of higher antiquity than the Deutero-Pooh book, The House at Pooh Corner, hereafter abbreviated H) to be of composite origin; even if there... Read more

…with Dean Koontz that ran on Catholic Exchange recently. Read more

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Today, my sycophantic yes-men and women, there is much rejoicing! Why? Because in more or less the words of Gene Autry: I’m back in Seattle againOut where a friend is a friendWhere the longhorn cattle feedOn the lowly gypsum weedBack in the saddle again Ridin’ the range once moreTotin’ my old 450 MhzWhere you sleep out every nightAnd the only law is rightBack in Seattle again Whoopi-ty-aye-ohRockin’ to and froBack in Seattle againWhoopi-ty-aye-yayI go my wayBack in Seattle again I’m... Read more

Today, my sycophantic yes-men and women, there is much rejoicing! Why? Because in more or less the words of Gene Autry: I’m back in Seattle againOut where a friend is a friendWhere the longhorn cattle feedOn the lowly gypsum weedBack in the saddle again Ridin’ the range once moreTotin’ my old 450 MhzWhere you sleep out every nightAnd the only law is rightBack in Seattle again Whoopi-ty-aye-ohRockin’ to and froBack in Seattle againWhoopi-ty-aye-yayI go my wayBack in Seattle again I’m... Read more