A reader writes: I got let go today. I’ appreciate people putting in a word with Top Management. Father, grant your son a new job quickly, at a living wage, through Christ our Lord. Mother Mary and St. Joseph, pray for him! Read more

…we have this chestnut being rehashed in my comboxes: “Torture which uses physical or moral violence to extract confessions, punish the guilty, frighten opponents, or satisfy hatred is contrary to respect for the person and for human dignity.” Why do suppose the statement gives these unacceptable conditions? Why does it not include “interrogation for the greater good”? Why does it not simply define it as an intrinsic evil, like abortion? The reason is that it is following the Just War... Read more

For the next four days, we’ll be running around Washington shooting a montage for “Manalive”, so I won’t be blogging. Prayers for our safety on the roads and that we do a good job would be appreciated. See you Monday! Read more

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Just got word that a guy I knew from my college theatre days is in the hospital with an aneurysm. Your prayers would be appreciated. His name is David. Father, hear our prayers for David’s healing in body, soul, and spirit through Christ our Lord, amen. Mother Mary, pray for him. Read more

Just got word that a guy I knew from my college theatre days is in the hospital with an aneurysm. Your prayers would be appreciated. His name is David. Father, hear our prayers for David’s healing in body, soul, and spirit through Christ our Lord, amen. Mother Mary, pray for him. Read more

The curious affinity between the nutty consequentialism of the abortion license and the Coalition for Fog that continues to speak from deep inside deepest darkest Bubbledom. And, as the Bubble contracts, we hear such spectacular Orwellianisms as: Waterboarding is something of which every American should be proud. – Deroy Murdock Or this utterly creepy description by a Bush shill of what happens when torture breaks a victim: The job of the interrogator is to safely help the terrorist do his... Read more

The curious thing about the Deep Ecology types is that they are typically applauded as well-meaning but eccentric visionaries, as the parlance goes, “care about the Planet.” But what they propose (and what their celebrants and agitprop types in Hollywood celebrate) is this: the main trouble with Hitler is that he didn’t slaughter *enough* homo sapiens. One of the curious horse races in our morally, psychologically, and spiritually screwed up culture is the race between our sense of human equality... Read more

Somebody named Edarem feels the music: He has *lots* of videos uploaded. I’m afraid to click on them. Read more

Human cloning: What could it hurt? Phase two–the “How were we supposed to know?” phase–will be felt shortly, either in this life or the next. Read more