…writes the single best piece I have read on Maciel and the LC/RC crisis. The longer I look at things like this, the more convinced I become that Augustine is right that sin is not much a matter of people thinking to themselves “What evil can I commit today? Muhuwaahahahaha!” but is rather, for most people, a matter of “How do I protect what I love?” and then carrying that impulse beyond the bounds of right order. Love, far more... Read more

A JUST SYSTEM OF LAWS CAPABLE OF PROTECTING HUMAN LIFE VATICAN CITY, 18 FEB 2009 (VIS) – The Holy See Press Office released the following communique at midday today: “Following the general audience the Holy Father briefly greeted Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, together with her entourage. “His Holiness took the opportunity to speak of the requirements of the natural moral law and the Church’s consistent teaching on the dignity of human life from conception... Read more

Good to see! I wonder how it will fare. Read more

it only naturally follows that the MSM is awaiting a black pope as well, his election inspired by Barack Obama. Cuz, you know, Baby Boomers have a deathless faith that all the world is looking to us for spiritual guidance, especially the Catholic Church. By the way, here’s a factoid for you: We are now living in the second time in history when a Pope and a President have the same name (sort of). The first was John XXIII and... Read more

Science driven by the profit motive, not by the actual results. Read more

My oldest son, Luke’s, version of a hross from Out of the Silent Planet. I’ve always pictured them as tubbier, but I think this really works. In other family news, during history lessons today, our 11 year old informed us that the “Intarnation” was when Jesus was born as a hillbilly. So you can see real learning is happening. Read more

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A reader writes: A number of African American Pro-Life Ministers are coming from around the US to Oakland today, when Pastor Walter Hoye will be sentenced for violating Oakland’s (probably unconstitutional) “bubble ordinance” around abortion clinics. The page at this link has videos at the bottom which show the kind of thing you can now get arrested for in Oakland. There will almost certainly be a press blackout on this in the banana republic known as the Bay Area, so... Read more

Godwin Delalie Adadzie goes marching on, bearing witness to Christ and his Holy Church. Read more

Ryan Harkins has to endure a hymn that approaches “Anthem”-like levels of badness. GIA hymnody: replacing the worship of God with rhyming Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Task Force Statements since 1977. Read more