A reader responds to my post on the Ten Questions for Christians video by noting: All arguments against God’s existence from the occurrence of evil suffer from this ambiguity. A critic who claims that unhappiness and evil disprove the existence of God is really just saying that the critic would do a better job than God. Of course the critic might respond that if he or she can be a better God than God, God does not exist. But since... Read more

This looks like it’s going to be terrific. I have a “six degrees of separation” connection with this because my good friend Sherry Weddell got to sit in on some sort of panel of Catholic converts with Paul McCusker, who is the guy behind most of Focus on the Family’s radio drama productions. He made about a million Adventures in Odyssey episodes and I noticed that, as time went on, he started dipping into Church history, the lives of the... Read more

A while back I wrote a piece called “Padding the Case for the New Atheism“. My point was that there are two and only two reasonable arguments for atheism. The first is “Life sucks, so there’s no God” and the second is “Thing seem to work fine without God, so there’s no God”. St. Thomas states them in slightly less colloquial terms this way: Objection 1. It seems that God does not exist; because if one of two contraries be... Read more

In case you are dubious about Obama ramming through a gigantic project to ration health care and off the old, weak, and chronically ill in order to balance some books somewhere: Call Finance Committee (R) Sen Snowe 202-224-5344Call Finance Committee (R) Sen Crapo 202-224-6142; 4-6244; Enzi202-224-3424;Hatch 202-224-5251;Kyl 202-224-4521Sen Pat Roberts 202-224-4774;Bunning 202-224-4343;Cornyn 202-224-2934 Grassley’s DC office # (202) 224-3744 Read more

…Orphans Twins A basic summary of the Generation Narcissus Ethos of Child-Rearing: Children are not gifts of God, but commodities to which we have rights. If I want a child then I have the right to force one into existence because he exists for *me*, not I for him. If I don’t want him, I have the right to kill him, because it’s all about *ME*. Read more

of Killing Off Weak, Old, and Chronically Ill. It’s cheaper that way. And judging from the sort of people Obama is surrounding himself with, we are headed in that direction. After all, what could be scary about making your Science Czar a guy who recommended a regime of forced abortion and sterilization? Certainly somebody who was willing to do that in order to head off the fantasy of the Great Overpopulation Famine of the 80s would never use his power... Read more

A reader writes: Could you post a prayer request? A member of the parish where I went through RCIA was killed in a plane crash. He was the local basketball coach and physical education teacher for the elementary school, and It’s hit the community hard, especially the kids (who considered him one of their favorite teachers). He was a member of St. Mary, and leaves behind a wife and two children (one of whom just graduated last year). He was... Read more

about Ecumenism. Read more

from the quirky and creative Matt Lickona. Read more

Turns out the Roman Centurion and his servant were a married gay couple, according to this extremely tendentious exegete. More of that semi-permeable membrane of Protestantism at work. It works like this: 1. If a thing is condemned by the Church, but permitted by the Protestant (say, gay marriage) the demand is for an explicit text forbidding it (“Show me where Jesus said one word about not allowing gay marriage! That’s just the Church imposing its purely human ideas on... Read more