Kamikaze: A Reading by Pavel Chichikov Read more

Join the Bishops Postcard Campaign to Fight FOCA in your Parish U.S. Bishops postcard campaign to Congress to Fight FOCA The nation’s Catholic bishops are sponsoring a nationwide postcard campaign on January 24 to send postcards to members of Congress urging them to oppose the so-called Freedom of Choice Act. Last year while campaigning, President-elect Obama promised Planned Parenthood it would be one of the first bills he would sign after taking office. The postcards will be distributed to parishes... Read more

I’ve Always Suspected This of Waxman (and that picture is a dead giveaway) Read more

The Manalive Website is Up! Now all we have to do is make the movie! Read more

I wonder how many Catholics are all that different from Jack Chick when it comes to this Seriously. I wonder. Meanwhile, in the real world of human beings as distinct from cartoons, we have this heart-breaking story: Dr. Izzeldin Abuelaish is a Gazan and a doctor who has devoted his life to medicine and reconciliation between Israelis and Palestinians.But on Saturday, the day after three of his daughters and a niece were killed by Israeli fire in Gaza, Dr. Abuelaish,... Read more

Prayer Requests A reader asks for prayer for his wife, Alyson: She had 2 seizures yesterday and has yet to fully regain consciousness. Doctors are running many tests now and we don’t yet know the source of the problem. Another reader writes: Two requests rolled into one, really. The first concerns my husband’s car – a nearly-new Toyota Scion – which had its engine seize up on the highway. The dealership at first said it wasn’t his fault, since there... Read more

Charles Schulz Knew His Beethoven …and somebody noticed! Read more

This Rather Hopeful Story from a decade ago on Japanese Enthusiasm for Bach… reminds me of the Prophet Chesterton’s remarks about the anti-Christian Clevers in English media culture circa 1925 (whose children now rule the entire Western media and all the commanding heights of the Manufacturers of Culture): [T]he popular critics of Christianity are not really outside it. They are on a debatable ground, in every sense of the term. They are doubtful in their very doubts. Their criticism has... Read more

Vatican Reveals Super-Duper Top Secret Confessional!!!!!! It looks deceptively like…. a room!!!!!!! God alone knows what horrors occur in there!!!!! Turns out some sins are reserved to the Pope for absolution–such as a priest revealing the contents of a confession. Confession is one of my alltime favorite sacraments (behind Eucharist and Matrimony). As a card-carrying neurotic, I was stunned to discover that Catholics actually had a way to deal with post-baptismal sin that didn’t involve the preposterous attempt to shout... Read more

Binky the Webelf: For All Your Loony Canuck and Anglican News Needs Read more