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

My fave: How typical of Tony Blair. He’s been a Roman Catholic for only 20 minutes, yet he’s already lecturing the Pope on how to ‘modernise’ the founding Church of Christendom, so as to make its doctrines more congenial to Anthony Charles Lynton Blair. Also: But leave aside Mr Blair’s monstrous impertinence and his flesh-creeping, folksy language. What emerges with ringing clarity from his interview is that he sees the Roman Catholic Church, to which he converted two years ago,... Read more

My fave: How typical of Tony Blair. He’s been a Roman Catholic for only 20 minutes, yet he’s already lecturing the Pope on how to ‘modernise’ the founding Church of Christendom, so as to make its doctrines more congenial to Anthony Charles Lynton Blair. Also: But leave aside Mr Blair’s monstrous impertinence and his flesh-creeping, folksy language. What emerges with ringing clarity from his interview is that he sees the Roman Catholic Church, to which he converted two years ago,... Read more

Those wacky college kidz. Read more

Those wacky college kidz. Read more

Sullivan sums up the glaring contradiction at the heart of Bush’s Missionary Imperative: Looked at from a distance, the Bush administration wanted to do two things at once: to declare to the world that freedom is on the march, and human rights are coming to the world with American help, while simultaneously declaring to captives that the US has no interest in the law, human rights, accountability, transparency or humanity. They wanted to give hope to all the oppressed of... Read more

…on the crazy apostates who are running the LCWR. Read more

NY Governor takes immediate steps to expose subversive anti-American using Thoughtcrime Litmus Test. DHS will be watching this sinister group closely. Thank you Dear Leader Barack Dubya Obama, for keeping right-thinking Americans safe! We worship and adore you! Read more

A reader writes: As a Catholic Notre Dame grad student (and, incidentally, a long-time fan of yours), I am appalled at the ND administration’s behavior recently. Yesterday the Cardinal Newman Society sent me the following regarding their “Notre Dame Scandal” petition: “At 7:00 a.m. Monday morning we are going to print the first wave of petitions, and what a statement it would make if Father Jenkins and the bishops (including some of our friends in Rome) saw that we had... Read more

…is a shameless potpourri of shamelessly papistical popery. Check thou it out! Read more