Last week, while my router was down, all the sewage that was backed up and blocked by Fr. Maciel and his upper echelon sycophants was dislodged and came pouring out in a torrent. Basic narrative: the guy was a sexual predator who crushed and humiliated his victims with eager cooperation from suckups who knew what was happening and sided with him rather than the victims. I pretty much assumed this was so when Benedict sent him to ecclesial Siberia. Now... Read more

It would appear the next phase of the Great Enema of the Early Third Millennium is underway. The world should generally get nervous when the Church undergoes an enema, because the Church cannot help but be prophetic, even in her sins. When the Church needs an enema, it’s because she’s gotten too cosy with the world. But that only means the world is in dire shape. Meanwhile, 1 Peter still makes a lot of sense: If you are reproached for... Read more

…that I will pour out my Spirit upon all flesh, and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams; yea, and on my menservants and my maidservants in those days I will pour out my Spirit; and they shall prophesy. And I will show wonders in the heaven above and signs on the earth beneath, blood, and fire, and vapor of smoke; the sun shall be turned... Read more

Hi Mark, Susie from Aquinas and More here. We have a few new things going on that you might be interested in passing on to your readers. Last week, Ian, owner of Aquinas and More, launched a new website – the Catholic Store Finder . With this site, people are able to search by state, zip code, or store name to find local Catholic stores near them. We need people’s help to make sure that the information is up-to-date and... Read more

Erm. Mr. President? About that whole FOCA thing and the Mexico City policy you just, er, aborted?….. Read more

Gotta love this story of Chesley B. Sullenberger III’s evil twin and the customer service that is one of Stalin’s finest legacies. Read more

I don’t know if I can bear another relentlessly grim, post-9/11 reworking of yet another sci-fi apocalypse. I’m invested enough in Battlestar Galactica to carry through to the bitter end. But “V” was particularly bouncy and upbeat to begin with. I just wanna hear the Lizard Man say, “Here, mousy mousy!” Read more

He’s been doing a series of lectures at the UW on 20th Century Popes (he also gave one on John XXIII today for adult ed at our parish). Anywho, he was interviewed recently on Conversations with Fr. Bob and was his normal intelligent, engaging and ebullient self. Give it a listen! Read more

…has Chestertonian moments. Read more

… and a reader deluges me with various atheist links. The perfect fashion choice for the Napoleon Dynamite with a mean streak in your life. At last, a god the Rational Responders can believe in! Another rationalist who does not yet realize he has faith in the law of non-contradiction. Atheists who don’t even believe in the existence of Peter and Nazareth. (Which reminds me of a story told by Fr. Bernhard Blankenhorn about a Dominican scholar he knew who... Read more