McAfee Site Advisor So, without asking, McAfee suddenly adds this stupid search engine to my browser. Anybody know how to take it off? Also, I’d like to get rid of Site Advisor. I’ve disabled it, but it’s still sitting there on my browser. Oh ye of superior geekness, hear my pleas! Update: Never mind! I figured it out. Turn off the toolbar. D’oh! Read more

For Those Who Can Attend A Funeral Mass will be celebrated for Father Richard John Neuhaus at the Church of the Immaculate Conception—414 E. 14th Street, New York City—on Tuesday, January 13, 2009, at 10 a.m. Bishops and priests who wish to attend are asked please to inform Nathaniel Peters (by email or phone 212-627-2288) by Sunday afternoon, January 11, at the latest. A Christian wake service in the form of a Vigil for the Deceased will be celebrated at... Read more

Hey Seattle! I’m teaching on Scripture this evening January 8 7:00 PM. St. Mark’s, Shoreline WA. Topic: Survey of Scripture IV See you there! Read more

This Cracked Me Up! Read more

For all Your Socio-Economic Theory Debating Needs 4Marks.com sends this along: CAPITALIST-DISTRIBUTIST-SOCIALIST DEBATE When: Apr 4th 2009 Garden City, New York NY – Garden City, NY, USA. A conference hosted and sponsored by the Nassau Community College for Catholic Studies in Long Island, New York, is confirmed… To view the event, this link will give you direct access without having to create an account. Read more

Fr. Richard John Neuhaus on Death Beautiful ruminations made all the more poignant by the loss we’ve suffered. May God rest his soul. Read more

A reader writes: An OB/GYN physician in our area is considering converting her practice to a “non-contraceptive” one. Please pray that she will be able to work out the details and have the perseverance and courage to follow the Holy Spirit’s promptings soon! Thank you. Lord, hear our prayer! Read more

A reader writes: I have become an Extraordinary Minister of the Eucharist and will be bringing the Sacrament to a nursing home for the first time this Sunday. Please ask the readers to pray for me. Father, bless the work of your servant in the Vineyard through Jesus Christ! Amen! Read more

Fr. Richard John Neuhaus Has Died Fr. Richard John Neuhaus slipped away today, January 8, shortly before 10 o’clock, at the age of seventy-two. He never recovered from the weakness that sent him to the hospital the day after Christmas, caused by a series of side effects from the cancer he was suffering. He lost consciousness Tuesday evening after a collapse in his heart rate, and the next day, in the company of friends, he died. My tears are not... Read more

Dawn Eden Notes a Vital Point about Magisterial Guidance When It Comes to Thinking About Israel’s Right to Exist *Remembering the Vatican’s ‘total rejection’ of anti-Zionism* As a Jewish convert to Catholicism who desires ardently that everyone, especially my loved ones, should find the salvation granted through Jesus Christ, I am distressed to see, following Israel’s attempt to stop Hamas’s violence against its citizens, some Catholics claim the true villain in the conflict is Zionism itself. It is true that... Read more