Some interesting observations on the golden opportunity for evangelization that lies at our feet if we will but think of evangelization as the Holy Father call us to do and not of drawing up the drawbridge on Fortress Katolicus as his enemies all urge: A few weeks ago I received an email from one of my students. She has been working amongst Muslim women and had just had a phone call from one of her Muslim friends. The woman was... Read more
All rhetoric that relates the unborn to other forms of human life under assault is Catholic and sane. All rhetoric the pits the unborn against other forms of human life under assault is anti-Catholic and insane. Read more
Yet again a GOP court pulls away the football by signalling continuity in its stance on abortion, blocking a law that could leave only one provider in Louisiana. And, 38 years of history are any indication, yet again you guys will go on being the biggest suckers in all of American politics. You never learn and I fear you never will. Tell me more about how I have “blood on my hands” for not being stupid enough to think your... Read more
…involved in successful gene-splicing project to produce 19th century nun: Enraged readers at Church Militant and Lifesite News demand explanation, foresee certain doom for Church. Me: I just think Science is amazing! Read more
One of the curious contradictions to grow up over the centuries is the double assertion that the Catholic tradition fears all thought outside the rigid parameters of dogma while at the same time encouraging all manner of philosophical flights of fancy about how many angels can dance on a pinhead and so forth. Neither claim is true, but if any claim has better grounding, it is the second one. Catholic theologians and thinkers have noodled wild “what ifs” since forever.... Read more
“When you give a dinner or a banquet, do not invite your friends or your brothers or your kinsmen or rich neighbors, lest they also invite you in return, and you be repaid. But when you give a feast, invite the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind, and you will be blessed, because they cannot repay you. You will be repaid at the resurrection of the just.” (Lk 14:12–14). I once wrote a piece called “Jesus Christ, Financial Advisor”... Read more
On Friday, I came down with a wallop of the flu and didn’t awake from my coma, 5 and 1/2 pounds lighter, till Sunday. When I did, I was delighted to find that, not only was it snowing and would continue to do so all afternoon, but I was deeply rewarded to discover that a friend had sent me this amazing piece on, and I am not making this up, Our Lady of Thunder-Candles! The liturgical calendar is so multi-layered... Read more
…that he sequenced into DNA. No. Really: A 16-year-old French boy who made headlines around the world after he translated religious texts into DNA and injected it into himself has explained his process. Adrien Locatelli translated the Book of Genesis and the 13th chapter of the Koran into a DNA sequence. He then built the proteins in a lab and injected them into his legs. Adrien told Newshub the process took him “some months” as he “injected [himself] with very... Read more
(After Jeremiah 20:10-11) I repented, and Satan said, “Not good enough!” Mocking me, he spat in my face, called me liar, bore down on me and stood over me, hissing out the threat, “Abase yourself! Crawl on your belly and, squirming, hate what God has made and call yourself scum. You do not truly repent if ‘vermin’ you do not name yourself and zero sum all you are, annihilating your soul in my malignant contempt for your heart.” But Christ,... Read more
He writes: I just wish you would focus on the life issue at hand, instead of twisting everything in order to condemn the GOP and support Dems. Whenever the GOP does something wrong, you hammer them for it, but when Dems do things wrong, you twist it to again focus on how everything is the GOP’s fault. Smack the Dems around a bit too. They’re deserving of it as well. I don’t think I twist anything. When Dems fail to... Read more
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