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There’s a push in my home state to stop the exemptions in equal opportunity laws that have allowed the Catholic church (and other religious groups) to make choices on faith/moral grounds about the people they hire… Our bishops outline the issues well here: And some letters to the editor are here… (including the obligatory “embarrassed Catholic”) I actually think it’s going to be politically tricky to completely remove the exemptions from religious organisations. But it’s likely they’ll end up with... Read more

It’s not an All-Explaining Theory of Everything when it comes to atheism. But it does have an awful lot of explanatory power, I suspect. Especially in the weird disconnect I so often experience with people who are manifestly socially clueless gits, yet whose own estimation of their intellectual awesomeness and superiority to the Common Herd is astronomically out of touch with reality. It is not, as Lewis points out, that their heads are larger than ours. It is that their... Read more

A reader writes: I’m considering putting aside my Ph.D. schooling to enter the seminary for a year of discernment and formation, and I was wondering if you could post this. I could use all the prayers I can get. Thanks. And another reader writes: Just wanted to say thanks again for the prayers and generosity regarding our new born baby. He was born Jonathan Patrick last Monday – the 40th anniversary of the moon landing – at 7 pounds, 7... Read more

Whether you are an atheist anti-Catholic or merely a Protestant anti-Catholic, the way to respond to claims of the miraculous is the same: don’t go and see if a miracle has occurred. Instead, sit on your big fat ass and spout some theory about how it can’t have happened. If you are a Protestant anti-Catholic, you can, of course, also add that claim that if something supernatural has happened, it was the devil. You know, like the Pharisees did in... Read more

The Great Man and his toadies continue taking the same passages out of context they’ve been taking out of context for 10 years. Some Catholic who knows how to read then points out that they are taking the passage out of context. Meanwhile, in my comboxes, more toadies waste the time of Catholics who can afford to play whack-a-mole with people who have dedicated the use of their intellect to playing stupid games like “How-can-you-prove-Scripture-is-not-perspicuous-if-you-quote-the-Bible-since-if-the-Bible-is-not-perspicuous-then-you-don’t-know-what-it-says-and-can’t-quote-it-so-there!” Or else you get the... Read more

a whole lot! Shouldn’t *you* be loving it too? Of course you should! And you can start today by ordering it (replete with author autograph!) here. If you’ve already ordered it and read it, then you know that fifty of your closest personal friends and family members need their own copy. You can get them one by ordering it (replete with author autograph!) here. Also, if you’re like me, you probably have a number of enemies. As Jesus said, you... Read more

Edward Green says: Major articles published in Science, The Lancet, British Medical Journal, and even Studies in Family Planning have reported this finding since 2004. I first wrote about putting emphasis on fidelity instead off condoms, in the book AIDS in Africa, in 1988. Condoms fail because people do not use them consistently, because they are not used once people get to know someone, and because they provide a false sense of security, allowing people to take greater risks then... Read more

An interviewer once asked me if my Christianity or my political philosophy would offend readers, by which he meant readers to the Left of Center. I answered that since such readers get offended at plain, ordinary and decent things like heroism, romance and marriage, I have no need to expend effort to offend them with more abstract or topical questions. The final paragraph of a blog entry in which the invaluable John C. Wright has a critic’s guts for garters.... Read more

hold Blasphemofest against the Bible, Pretend It’s Art. The Usual Suspects indulge in the usual juvenile crap and pat themselves on the back for their Courage. It’s all so numbingly narcissistic and puerile. The cowardly little zits wouldn’t dare do this to a Quran. Once again, Western atheists make clear that the only real enemy they have is Jesus Christ. And the enmity is all theirs. He remains upon the cross (a cross they rejoice over) for their sake while... Read more