9th Circuit Upholds Anti-Catholic Resolution – Same-sex Adoption Backgrounder I’m hopeful it will be overturns as other loopy 9th Circuit opinions have been. Read more

I’m gonna kick some tithe money to this. Caesar has no business telling Catholics what internal theological matters they can and cannot argue about. What’s next? Affirmative action suits commanding the ordination of women? OSHA regulations on baptismal water temperature? Caesar needs to extract his abnormally large nose from Catholic arguments about who is and is not fit for communion. None of his business. Read more

Today, my mewling sycophants, I have something really special in store! A reader wrote yesterday: I’m starting to worry that the power of having 131 followers may go to your head and you’ll try to take over blogs like mine that only have a handful of followers. Please ease the minds of us humble bloggers and promise that, in the spirit of Christian peace and charity, you won’t engage in a cyber-conquest against us. I naturally assured my reader that,... Read more

Yesterday, you got to stand with me in my pointless struggle to have more followers than the evil Fr. Philip, meet Tom Curran, watch something call Meta-Ethical Subjectivism exhale great clouds of ASCII bafflegab into comboxes, experience the wonder of Dick Cheney’s gift for moral contemplation, see teens stampeded into a Herd of Independent Minds, pray for various folks who really need your prayers, slip and slide down the slippery slope, witness the entire history of Generation Narcissus in four... Read more

When the Beeb thinks this is a story we all need to know about. Reminds me of a favorite Allied Marching Song and taunt from WWII: Hitler, he only has one ballGoering has two, but they’re very, very smallHimmler has something simmlerAnd Dr. Goebbels has no balls at all! The deuill, the prowde spirit, cannot endure to be mock’d. – Thomas More. Something similar obtains with tyrants. That’s why one of the pleasures of being a free people is the... Read more

The problem is, he’s right. Now if only what progresseive dissenters mean by the “spirit of Vatican II” was the Holy Spirit and not something much more like this. Read more

now en Espanol! Read more

A reader writes: I’m a college student who greatly enjoys reading your blog. Your combination of orthodoxy and humor never fails to simultaneously inform and entertain me. If I had any money to spare, I’d definitely contribute to your fund! I’ll just have to send some prayers your way instead. Anyway, I saw this story on the BBC about “gay penguins” in a zoo in Germany, and I was wondering if you’d heard about it. It makes me want to... Read more

A reader writes: Please pray for a boy named Chase who was found floating in a pool two days ago. The doctors say he is “brain dead” and that it’s “in God’s hands now.” He is on life support, and his family is understandably shaken. Thanks to you and your readers in advance for the prayers. Father, let your will for Chase be done and, if you will it, heal him. Grant his family strength, grace and consolation in this... Read more

…meets the diseased spirituality of Islam, you get stuff like this what this reader encounters: My newest project with the company I work for is helping computers match Arabic names. So I thought I’d pick up a couple of handy references on the alphabet and the language. Thanks to this, I ran across this truly hilarious paragraph, which despite opening with, “In order to understand the Arab world and the Middle East…”, does nothing other than medicate the sensibilities of... Read more