Our Nation’s Guardian Against Incorrect Thoughts Read more

Somebody sends along a link to some Dominican Spirituality Center in Grand Rapids. As you can see, it’s a mix of Dominican stuff, with somebody at the Center offering training in Reiki, which looks to be some sort of Asian method of healing massage or something. My reader is worried about this, since she takes it for New Age spirituality. It may well be (the Midwest Province of the Dominicans are the people who gave you Matthew Fox). However, before... Read more

In response to this, he writes this: Mark: There’s a simple way to humanize your written disagreements. First, baseline your current behavior by constructing a least squares error response function, modeling the factors as trinary inputs. In subsequent disputes, make a note of the factors’ values and, if your predicted behavior is too dehumanized, adjust the factors (in order from most to least significant) until the modeled behavior is appropriate. Then you simply reconstruct the dispute such that the factors... Read more

Obama Campaign Manipulated Catholics Read more

The Horse’s Ass gets the boot from Argentina. Whiny Rad Trads will assume I think this is a good thing since, I am informed, I just want to see Williamson *pay*. Actually, I think it’s a highly ambiguous thing. If, as the story relates, he is being kicked out because he deceived the Argentinian gov’t, then yeah, I have no problem with giving him the boot: The Argentine interior ministry said that Bishop Williamson had not declared “his true activity”... Read more

…who has forgotten more about canon law than most of us will ever know, writes: The Pewsitter Petition on Canon 915 Pewsitter.com has published an on-line petition by which Catholics may call upon bishops to withhold holy Communion from Catholic political figures who gravely disregard Church teaching on certain fundamental life issues. The petition invokes canon law in support of some of its propositions. I know nothing about the organization behind the petition, but I feel confident in commenting on... Read more

But… TIME says we don’t have to even bother with this, even though Obama said it was his number one priority! My hope (so far borne out) is that Obama is just another pandering politician who made an empty promise. But trusting that this is so on the word of TIME magazine is a more than braindead thing to do. I think the USCCB made the right call here in organizing opposition. Read more

…(which is, by the way, a *very* cool name that makes me think of grand tales of adventure with Confederacy generals or Yukon trappers) writes: I wanted to bring to your attention a project that my friend Joe McClane and I have released this weekend. The website is called Convert Obama, with the intention being that the church rally around the Lenten call to fasting and prayer, and offer those sacrifices up for the conversion of our new President, and... Read more

is having a Homeschool Dad’s Night Out! Read more

Should it go in the “Williamson: The Gift that Keeps On Giving” file or the “Israel: Just Another Secular Nation-State and Not God’s Chosen Country” file? You decide. Read more