I don’t know if you’ve talked about this before, but how do you respond to people who reject God based on the Biblical account of Him commanding the Israelite people to commit genocide? Thanks. The most detailed (and, mind you, speculative) treatment I have given to this and related questions of Old Testament violence is found in the chapter on the Moral Sense of Scripture in my Making Senses Out of Scripture. That’s where I’d point you. In addition, Tim... Read more

Went to CUA yesterday to hear Mary Ann Glendon, Robert George and Doug Kmiec on “The Obama Administration and the Sanctity of Human Life: Is There a Common Ground on Life Issues? What is the Right Response by ‘Pro-Life’ Citizens?” Clayton give his report here. Dawn gives her report on Kmiec’s tergiversation-filled responses here. You can watch the whole thing yourself here. Read more

According to a blog devoted to teaching EKG technicians, Catholic and Enjoying it is among the top 100 “spirituality blogs”. There’s lots of much better blogs listed there, but its flattering to be included among them. Anyway, now you know what the EKG technician community thinks. I just like the fact that there is an EKG technician community. Read more

Predictably, the Left is now using opposition to torture as a fig leaf for promotion of abortion. It turns out that The United Nations (UN) committee charged with monitoring compliance with the Convention Against Torture has declared that Nicaragua’s full protection of fetal life violates the country’s obligations under the Convention. You read that right. According to the pro-abort ideologues at the UN, failure to legalize abortion constitutes “torture”. A classic example of Lewis’ observation that “opposite evils, so far... Read more

South Bend prosecutor presses trespass charges against prominent pro-life advocates Chicago-based Thomas More Society assembles a “Fighting Irish” legal defense team Notre Dame, IN — Thomas More Society attorneys appeared in St. Joseph County Criminal Court to defend two prominent pro-life advocates against trespass charges brought this morning by local prosecutors in the wake of protests at the University of Notre Dame. Laura Rohling and Jane Brennan went onto the Notre Dame campus to educate students about the after-effects of... Read more

geared toward helping adolescents get the idea of “goodness in/goodness out, garbage in/garbage out” when it comes to the music we listen to. This is the sort of thing that should be worked into a youth presentation or assembly or small book (or all three). Read more

Here is a brilliant bit of humor with a wonderfully high geek quotient. Hats off to Deirdre and Enjoy! Read more

Dear Mr. Shea, Allow me to introduce myself as an unlettered Traditional Roman Catholic, militant young-Earth Biblical creationist and geocentrist…. Folks are free to adopt whatever kooky ideas they like. They are free to be “militant” about it. I’m free to ignore such people when they clamor, as they inevitably do, for me to disprove their kookery. Oh, and they are free to declare me a “coward” for doing so. Whatever. I’ve got a lot to do. Disproving “militant young-Earth... Read more

Today, my groaning legions of oppressed masses, I propose to give you a day off….. JUST KIDDING! Actually, your task for today is to memorize this scene and perform it at your next family gathering: That is all. Read more

http://www.theonion.com/content/themes/common/assets/onn_embed/embedded_player.swf?image=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.theonion.com%2Fcontent%2Ffiles%2Fimages%2FMANSLAUGHTER_article.jpg&videoid=95307&title=Political%20Talk%20Show%20Host%20Suddenly%20Very%20Interested%20In%20Manslaughter%20Law%20Loopholes But what *is* manslaughter? I’m sooooooo confused! Has the Church ever provided a definitive utterly unambiguous definition that could not possibly be misunderstood by every single human being on planet earth? If not, I guess we just have to say that “manslaughter” is a prudential judgment that Catholics of good will can disagree about. We can’t say anything definite about it at all and even the *slightest* suspicion that the poor man in this video might be up to... Read more