China’s official media and outspoken bloggers on Friday protested over a German advert promoting the use of condoms which shows revolutionary leader Mao Zedong as a sperm cell alongside Adolf Hitler and Osama bin Laden. Read more

here. Pretty cool! There’s some smart people at St. Blog’s. Read more

here. Pretty cool! There’s some smart people at St. Blog’s. Read more

I’m a frequent reader of your blog and I was wondering if you had seen this and what you think about it? Also, I was wondering about you thoughts on another phenomena I’ve noticed. My friend who posted this link left the Catholic Church over the issue of female ordination, arguing to me that women should be allowed to be priests since there is no difference men and women. After hearing this I suspected she would come to support gay... Read more

I’m a frequent reader of your blog and I was wondering if you had seen this and what you think about it? Also, I was wondering about you thoughts on another phenomena I’ve noticed. My friend who posted this link left the Catholic Church over the issue of female ordination, arguing to me that women should be allowed to be priests since there is no difference men and women. After hearing this I suspected she would come to support gay... Read more

He writes: As for the question of extensive heterodoxy, Ross had a good post on this last year. In it, he wrote this: And of course a distinctively American strand of heresy is integral to a large swathe of what we think of as “conservative” Christianity [bold mine-DL]: You could call it Americanism or Moralistic Therapeutic Deism or something else entirely, but whatever label you choose it owes as much to Emerson, Hegel and Norman Vincent Peale as to Nicaea... Read more

He writes: As for the question of extensive heterodoxy, Ross had a good post on this last year. In it, he wrote this: And of course a distinctively American strand of heresy is integral to a large swathe of what we think of as “conservative” Christianity [bold mine-DL]: You could call it Americanism or Moralistic Therapeutic Deism or something else entirely, but whatever label you choose it owes as much to Emerson, Hegel and Norman Vincent Peale as to Nicaea... Read more

Best piece on Media’s Obama Worship Ever! In other news, Henry Karlson and Morning’s Minion expressed disappointment with Obama’s double homicide and ritual dismemberment of his victims, but reserved their real ire for simplistic Calvinistic Catholics who fail to appreciate the positive side of this cold-blooded crime and who reduce a complex, nuanced, full-orbed approach to Catholic social teaching to simplistic slogans like “Obama shot them right between the eyes while they begged for mercy and then cut up their... Read more

What’s not to love? Read more

Sometimes I get prayer request that I am a bit nervous about posting, because bitter experience has taught me that some readers will take them as a platform for political speechifying or (worse) barge into the combox to tell the person who is asking for prayer what is wrong with them and how they need to shape up. Just so you know in advance, my standing policy (which I periodically have to reiterate) is that I will have none of... Read more