Question: Why is this such a huge deal? Why all the sturm und drang? JPII forcibly covered for him which is not exactly an endorsement of “innocence.” (I’m not suggesting JPII was motivated by malice, but he has a history of covering for a number of buddies while turning away from victims – he had his reasons) B16 already forcibly put him out to pasture with the correlated command to keep his mouth shut, which pretty much eliminates (imo) any... Read more

God bless such courageous souls! Read more

Gradually, over time, the explosion cooled into little bits that just acted the way they acted because they do. These bits combined into more and more complicated stuff. The stuff interacted according to physical laws that just happen to be fine tuned so that the stuff could manifest characteristics called life. At this point, the All Explaining Theory of Everything called Evolution kicked in, leading in short order to bacteria, jellyfish, trilobites, bony fish, amphibians, dinosaurs, mammal, homo erectus, homo... Read more

A reader sends along this equally creepysick piece from 2001 in which Righties go all orgasmic over… Donald Rumsfeld. One of the odder markers of a culture in decay (or, at any rate, an apostate Puritan culture in decay) is its weird inability to keep from sexualizing things that, ick, should *not* be sexualized. Who knew there was a connection between Donald Rumsfeld and Bratz dolls? Read more

Because you could have seen trouble coming years ago if you were moderately Internet savvy. Read more

With this passionate, post-abortive Wisconsin mother offering her time and her testimony to the pro-life movement, there is some fresh hope in this Age of Obama. Read more

…is that the infrastructure is still pretty strong to support Christians and prevent them from facing the sort of crap that British foster mum faces. Nonetheless, the slow forces of rot continue. To wit, a reader writes: Thanks for your thoughtful blog–it’s taught me to love Chesterton, even though I’m a Calvinist. I’m a brother of a national Christian fraternity, the San Diego State chapter of which filed a lawsuit after they lost recognition by the campus in 2005. The... Read more

If not, this will refresh your memory. Anyway, here’s the latest, and very cheery, report: Don’t be alarmed!! We know many of you may be wondering “Why are they e-mailing us about JP? Is there a problem?” The good news is…we are e-mailing you with good news. We brought JP to the cardiologist Friday for a periodic check-up. The last time she had seen JP was in early November and his heart function, measurements, and the echocardiogram images all looked... Read more

The most amazing part of this story, to me, is not that some board of officious idiots punished the foster mum for her Muslim ward’s conversion to Christianity. The most amazing part is: ‘I did initially try to discourage her. I offered her alternatives. ‘I offered to find places for her to practise her own religion. I offered to take her to friends and family. ‘But she said to me from the word go, ‘I am interested and I want... Read more

…has a message on climate change I think we can all applaud. Read more