Jody Bottum at First Things writes: Fr. Neuhaus is in the hospital here in New York. Over Thanksgiving, he was diagnosed with a serious cancer. The long-term prognosis for this particular cancer is not good, but it is not hopeless, either, and there is a possibility that it will respond to the recommended out-patient chemotherapy. Unfortunately, over Christmas, he was taken dangerously ill with what seems to be a systemic infection that has left him very weak. Entering the hospital... Read more

Jody Bottum at First Things writes: Fr. Neuhaus is in the hospital here in New York. Over Thanksgiving, he was diagnosed with a serious cancer. The long-term prognosis for this particular cancer is not good, but it is not hopeless, either, and there is a possibility that it will respond to the recommended out-patient chemotherapy. Unfortunately, over Christmas, he was taken dangerously ill with what seems to be a systemic infection that has left him very weak. Entering the hospital... Read more

Victor Lams Continues to Create Quirky Music Obviously a fan of They Might Be Giants. Read more

Religion as Crowd Control Periodically, our Chattering Classes, in between loudly declaiming that atheists can be as moral as anybody else and religion has nothing to do with morality, suddenly notice that religion tends to have a lot to do with morality. It turns out that, while atheists *can* be moral people, in real life, religious devotion to a personal God who love you tends to be a much better engine to motivate people to be good than a mere... Read more

This will tear your heart out HT: Pertinacious Papist Read more

In the words of the irrepressible Kathy Shaidle: Dear Luftwaffe: Please come back. All is forgiven. In other “Please just establish the Caliphate in Buckingham Palace Now” news…. Britain: Where the Dictatorship of Relativism means all religions are equally superior to the Catholic Church. Read more

Somebody Thinks They Found “Archaelogical Proof” of the Exodus I tend to be skeptical of stuff like this. But it’s kinda interesting. Read more

Hitherto Wilfully Obtuse Atheist Gets a Clue It’s good to see that Matthew Parris can be taught. I’ve had my worries about him in the past. Read more

How Court Prophets and Professional Theological Whores Paved the Way for the Kennedys (and the Dems) to Be Pro-Abort Zealots But that all changed in the early ’70s, when Democratic politicians first figured out that the powerful abortion lobby could fill their campaign coffers (and attract new liberal voters). Politicians also began to realize that, despite the Catholic Church’s teachings to the contrary, its bishops and priests had ended their public role of responding negatively to those who promoted a... Read more

“It is a practice too profound to alter. Too precious to change.” Now in convenient disposable plastic! This is one of those places where dimestore Evangelical piety makes Catholic flesh crawl. Yet it should be noted that this is also a classic “plastic cup half full” situation in which Evangelicals are slowly feeling their way back to a Eucharistic piety. Credit it as you would the widow’s mite. Read more