Next up after this: scientists to study why prisoners want to escape from jail. Read more

Please pray for my husband to find a good job soon and start working from the 1st of next month, its been almost 5 months he is jobless. Father, give your son work so that he may provide for his family and do your will in the world through Jesus Christ. Father Joseph and Mother Mary, pray for them. By the way, as a sign of hope, let me add this note I just got this morning: I just wanted... Read more

…founder of the Catholic Worker house in OKC. By my friend Mary Kochan. Read more

not terribly interested in reconciliation with Holy Church, apparently. Read more

Since 9/11, atheist discourse has often followed this pattern: Religion is what caused 9/11. And by religion, I mean Christianity, especially the Catholic Church. This curious tendency to always return to anti-Catholicism as the real core of so-called “atheism” can, if the atheist polemicist is not careful, lead to some quirky alliances. Here, for instance, is an atheist looking to the genius of Jack Chick for intellectual inspiration. Here are some secular humanists calling on the ghost of John Calvin... Read more

Steve Greydanus has a beautiful, beautiful story that elevates my already stratospheric opinion of PIXAR into permanent stationary orbit over the Shrine to Awesomeness. God bless everybody at that fine, fine organization. Truly they are “beyond class”. Read more

A reader writes: I wanted to share with you what we are doing here at St. Michael’s Church in Gastonia, NC. Zachery Brakefield, a member of our youth group, has formed a film company to make a movie on one of our favorite Catholic heroes, Servant of God, Father Vincent Capodanno. We have gotten the blessing of our bishop and Zac has been interviewed by our local FOX news channel. You can see it on our website. If you can... Read more

they became fools. A member of the Chattering Class thinks that if you could just be more demented and irrational in your emotional life that would fix things. No. Seriously. Nehring yearns for a revival of a messier ardor. In her view, we have domesticated love past all recognition, turning what is rightly leonine, destructive, and majestic into a yawning, chubby house cat. Hers is no modest project. She wants nothing less than to radicalize our framework for love, mainly... Read more

on post-abortive healing. The internet affords new ways to do the works of mercy. Read more

it’s like a big family. The bad news about the Catholic Church is… it’s like a big family. A convert encountering this reality writes: Hello Mr. Shea, Firstly, I have become a regular reader of your blog and I thoroughly enjoy it. I must admit as person just now entering back into the pursuit of a college degree, I find myself reaching for the dictionary occasionally. At least give me credit for trying to understand versus pretending to understand. Indubitably.... Read more