This has to be a very expensive gag. What I don’t understand is why somebody went to all the trouble. Read more

Dale Price, who *still* mysteriously continues to deprive the world of a marvelously agile and gifted pen with all this “making a living and caring for his (growing! Congratulations!) family” stuff looks at Steyn’s recent essay on the ongoing struggle of the post-Christians to euthanize their Christian heritage as fast as possible. In a word, as Anthony Sacramone put it, “Dutch Filmmaker and Parliamentarian Barred from Britain, Accused of Not Making Anti-Christian Film. Read more

…about Robert Louis Stevenson’s defense of Fr. Damien. Stevenson was, above all, an honest man. In my more Rod Serlingesque moods, I sometimes fancy that the most terrible part of the Judgment will be our final and complete loss of the power to rationalize our own sins, an overwhelming moment in which, for instance, Rev. Hyde sees, as clearly as Robert Louis Stevenson saw, his own craven and despicable sin in denouncing Fr. Damien, and must recite aloud the truth... Read more

I’ll see your lay Buddhist bishop and raise you three priests who are Zen masters! Read more

HT: Rod Dreher Read more

As I mentioned last week, today is Day 1 of the Quarterly Catholic and Enjoying It! Tin Cup Rattle If you like what you read here, please help keep an emphatically lower middle class writer solvent so he can keep bringing you the weird combination of offbeat humor, theological ramblings, ecclesial and civil politics, and various cultural ephemera that you’ve come to realize you can’t live without. If you value this blog as much or more than you value your... Read more

A reader writes: I recently completed a petition to Withhold Communion from prominent Catholics in public life who dissent from the Church’s teaching on a variety of serious moral issues including abortion, euthanasia, human cloning, homosexual marriage, and embryonic stem cell research to name a few. I encourage you to do the same. Canon 212 S3 of the Catholic Church states that the Catholic faithful have ‘..the right, indeed at times the duty, in keeping with their knowledge, competence and... Read more

I just found out the Fr. Enrique T. Rueda has pancreatic cancer and is now undergoing chemotherapy. Father, grant your servant Fr. Enrique complete healing through our Lord Jesus Christ. Mother Mary and St. Luke, pray for him! Read more

…demonstrates that even rap music can be redeemed. Read more

I’ve just been invited to speak, in June, in Twisp, WA! I love that there’s a place called Twisp! (It’s actually quite beautiful, situated in the Methow Valley over on the other side of the Cascades. I’ve been there a couple of times.) Read more