I was gratified to see this weekend that IC ran a piece I wrote for Crisis a few years ago called “The Mother of the Son: The Case for Marian Devotion“. A nice way to start May! It is a sort of brief distillation of several of the points I make in Mary, Mother of the Son (which I expect to arrive at my door any time now). Read more

A reader writes: Dear God what have we come to? Once abortion is cast into the fiery dustbins of history from whence it came, will torture take its place as the next grave evil threatening our livelihood and well-being? What do these guys not get about Gaudium et Spes 27, CCC 2297, the bull of Pope Pius SVII, St. Nicholas I’s ninth-century condemnation, the Sacred Tradition handed on by the apostles, etc…? I just don’t get how anyone could justify... Read more

A modest director with a modest history of films for which there is much to be modest about does his bit to feed the sinister Vatican conspiracy meme so beloved by consumers of his dumb films. Hopefully, without the sex and blasphemy themes keeping it on artificial life support, the latest effort at bringing the depe thots of Dan Brown to the screen will tank. It’s hard to believe people will sit still for two hours of “true Catholics hate... Read more

But still, Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity are pointing out the bleedin’ obvious. Read more

Recently, Deal Hudson reviewed Andrew McNabb’s book, The Body of This: Stories, followed by the customary passionate commentary of IC comboxes. The other night on the Cover to Cover program on Catholic Radio International, three smart and interesting young(ish) Catholic writers-Matt Lickona (Swimming with Scapulars, Loyola,) Katy Carl (editor-in-chief of Dappled Things (is she really only 25? My God)), and Joseph O’Brien (poet and voice of Cover to Cover)-discussed not just the book and the controversy surrounding it, but the... Read more

Here’s a story about trendy Emergents laboring to conform the Church to the Twitter Generation. The Prophet Chesterton remarks that revolutionaries generally can spot what’s wrong with the previous generation. What they have a harder time doing is knowing what’s right. Emergents have some very salient critiques of older Evangelical practice and piety. Some of them appear to be using that knowledge to create forms of spirituality even shallower and more trend-driven than their parents. Read more

If you get an email titled: ATTENTION: SIBERIAN TIGER CUBS SEEKING A NEW HOME, just delete it. Read more

This is what they mean. Often it involves no choice for the woman and never does it involve any choice for the child. It does involve a great deal of money for the abortionist. Not for the squeamish. Monstrous. Read more

The Hunt for Gollum: a 40 minute film chronicling the search for Gollum (set between the action of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. Very nicely done! Read more

She writes: You posted my prayer request here. I just wanted to give you some follow-up. I am almost off of the medicine now, so I think maybe it’s for the best, because I didn’t think the medicine was helping me that much (and had some bad side-effects such as weight loss–for me this was a bad side effect). I have moved to my new place now, and today I have finally found someone to take over my old lease!... Read more