Please Pray for Dale Price, who goes in for surgery tomorrow Lord, hear our prayer! Read more

Bill O’Reilly, Living Incarnation of the Hannitized Catholic Right The sooner self-described Faithful Conservative Catholics detoxify and purge their souls of filth like this and return to the actual teaching of the Church, the sooner we can get on with authentic Catholic faith and practice. A Catholic mind that confuses this pagan swill with Catholic thinking is like a Catholic tongue that can’t tell the difference between Belgian chocolate and a dog turd. Read more

Saying Anything and Everything A reader notes that the website I mentioned below that is peddling various atheist bric-a-brac so that socially inept gits will feel affirmed in their okayness offers t-shirts and coffee mugs with these quotes: “The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.” – Friedrich Nietzsche “The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil,... Read more

My friend, Fr. Michael Sweeney, once remarked to me that the question is not whether the Church could survive persecution in the US but whether the US could survive persecuting the Church Stories like this make me think of that remark. What with sin making you extremely stupid and all, I have to wonder if Caesar, now drunk on the wine of leftist hatred of the Church will really be stupid enough to start trying to strangle the whole network... Read more

Bitter, Socially Inept Gits Feel Affirmed in their Okayness One of the silliest attempts to ride the Victimism Wagon is the moaning and groaning of atheists over their alleged sufferings and oppression in American culture. What cracks me up is the rejoicing over “counting now” when, in a world of atheistic materialism, the atheist already has everything that “counts”. It’s only in a world which credits notions of a transcendent human dignity (that is, a religious world) that the atheist... Read more

Worshippers of Moloch Are Like Kids in a Candy Store Our task remains what it ever was: pray and work. Not just social conservatives are betrayed by politicians. We may hope that Obama let’s his worshippers down. Indeed, given the preposterous messianic hype, we may be certain he shall. Let’s pray that part of the betrayal comes in prompt abandonment of any serious intention to pursue FOCA. Read more

Best Neologism of 2009 A reader writes: Hey, Mark, you may get terrific questions as a Catholic author/speaker, but as a Catholic high school teacher, I get terrific answers. My current favorite: Q: Name the seven capital/deadly sins. A. (among the others): Sluttony Brilliant! That pretty much defines countless millions of square miles of what now constitute “Western values” (i.e., those values being proposed to us by the Manufacturers of Culture as a counter-narrative to the gospel and Christian virtues).... Read more

Interesting story of a newly ordained married priest here in Western Washington The guy’s a Lutheran convert. The comments are mostly the usual yah yah from yutzes. Only with Christianity can people who understand nothing about it shove their oar in and declare, with a sort of boast, their complete ignorance. An commenter on an article about say, quantum physics or French literature, is universally recognized as a boorish dunce if his only response is “I will never understand this... Read more

Tim Powers is cool A while back, I made the acquaintance of Tim Powers, because he writes terrific stories, and I am hopelessly inept as a fiction writer, but filled with a quixotic hope that I might try my hand at it. Powers, for them that don’t know, has a genius for concocting tales of occult intrigue, mixed a sort of noir-ish world of gamblers, spies, strange supernatural powers and–what interests me most–real historical characters with odd and anomalous moments... Read more

Somebody Else Notices How American our Factions Are .cc_box a:hover .cc_home{background:url(‘http://www.comedycentral.com/comedycentral/video/assets/syndicated-logo-over.png’) !important;}.cc_links a{color:#b9b9b9;text-decoration:none;}.cc_show a{color:#707070;text-decoration:none;}.cc_title a{color:#868686;text-decoration:none;}.cc_links a:hover{color:#67bee2;text-decoration:underline;} The Daily Show With Jon StewartM – Th 11p / 10c Changefest ’09 – Obama’s Inaugural Speech Barack Obama InterviewJohn McCain Interview Sarah Palin VideoFunny Election Video Read more