Heroic good guys rescuing heroic good guys from pirates! Talk about every boy’s wish fulfillment fantasy! It’s right out of The Secret Life of Walter Mitty. This is so totally gonna wind up as a book and an action movie. Read more

His little diamond-like series of reflections on the Seven Words from the Cross. Read more

A reader writes: No catechism’s logical words can ever make me a Catholic. No doctrine can ever make me a Catholic. But the Blessed Virgin Mother Mary CAN, in ways beyond logic. There’s something going on there that I find deeply interesting. Apologetics types may well take offense. So, surely, will Protestants of a more Calvinist hue, for whom the impulse to reduce the Faith to a series of diagrams and “propositional truths” is unusually strong. But for another sort... Read more

I wanted to tell you that I am about to start teaching a new component of my Catholic gospel class, part of my evangelization training program, through the Archdiocese of Denver, which for the first time I’m offering as a distance course. We’ve had many requests from around the country for a distance option, and I’m ready to try it out. Here’s a link to a post I just wrote on my blog about it, with course information. If it... Read more

I wanted to tell you that I am about to start teaching a new component of my Catholic gospel class, part of my evangelization training program, through the Archdiocese of Denver, which for the first time I’m offering as a distance course. We’ve had many requests from around the country for a distance option, and I’m ready to try it out. Here’s a link to a post I just wrote on my blog about it, with course information. If it... Read more

“A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing.” – Emo Philips I think Philips is also the guy who said, “Some mornings, it’s just not worth chewing through the leather straps.” Read more

“A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing.” – Emo Philips I think Philips is also the guy who said, “Some mornings, it’s just not worth chewing through the leather straps.” Read more

A reader writes: On Monday April 6 my daughter’s boyfriend Michael Harvey, a coal barge worker, was lost in the high and fast Ohio River. Although the wonderful rescue crews have been working ever since, they cannot find his body. For the sake of both our families, please pray we can bring him home. Thank you. Father, grant eternal happiness and peace to Michael through your Son, Jesus Christ. Help the rescue workers find his body and bring him home... Read more

Turns out “Kids Curb Marital Satisfaction“. For our culture terminal narcissism, this is a big deal, since it conceives of marriage, like everything else, as a tool for self-fulfillment and instant gratification. That’s why it bothers to undertake studies like this. Of course, there is another way of seeing it: kids force adolescent narcissists to grow up and realize it’s not all about Me. Those who submit to this process of “growing up” discover newer and deeper forms of satisfaction... Read more

Global Warming Climate change is a super duper emergency (even though the earth has not warmed in ten years). Our Chattering Classes demand immediate panic-driven action! Let’s shoot pollution into the atmosphere. It’s “radical“. We don’t really know what it will do. But we’re the best and the brightest. And besides: what could it hurt? When the state proclaims an emergency and announces some radical policy which we must enact RIGHT FREAKING NOW OR WE’RE ALL GONNA DIE, I have... Read more