Excuse me for the shocking headline, but this is what it means: this article in the Daily Telegraph reports that in the UK abortionists are performing abortions according to gender. This goes by the euphemism of “family balancing.” Don’t want another boy and the blood test shows your baby is a boy? Poison him, dismember him, use a chemical to flush him from your womb. But of course, it is more often girls than boys who are unwanted. Asian cultures... Read more

Anglican hymns are the best hymns:Come down, O love divine, seek Thou this soul of mine,And visit it with Thine own ardor glowing.O Comforter, draw near, within my heart appear,And kindle it, Thy holy flame bestowing. O let it freely burn, til earthly passions turnTo dust and ashes in its heat consuming;And let Thy glorious light shine ever on my sight,And clothe me round, the while my path illuming. Let holy charity mine outward vesture be,And lowliness become mine inner... Read more

Tony Layne blogs here on the coming economic disaster as profligate living crashes into a plunging birth rate. Read more

Hermit’s Cave Several times in my journey through this vale of tears I have been summoned to make a crazy sacrifice in order to follow Christ. One of those times was when I left the Anglican priesthood to become a Catholic. We had a large house in a sleepy English village, two beautiful thousand-year old churches, a quiet life and a secure living. I could have hunkered down and stayed there for a very long time, walking the dog, reading... Read more

I’m kind of jealous because Bad Catholic over here writes in such a cool way and seethes with passion and uses language which I can’t use ’cause I’m a priest and he makes me realize again why blogging is vital because stuff is written and published and read through blogs which would never before have been published by some boring editor somewhere who only  has his eye on what would attract the most readers in order to sell more advertising.... Read more

I don’t go to church to meet my friends. I don’t go to church to sing the songs I like I don’t go to church so the neighbors think I’m respectable I don’t go to church to increase my self esteem I don’t go to church to learn more about the Bible I don’t go to church to drink coffee and eat donuts I don’t go to church to have an emotional experience I don’t go to church to plan... Read more

Evangelize with holy cards. Here’s the idea: I have had holy cards printed up with a beautiful Catholic image on the front and Bible verses on the back. It makes non-Catholics think twice–“errr a Catholic holy card, but with Bible verses??!! Maybe those Catholics know their Bible after all!!” So for example, on the back of the image of the Blessed Mother is the text: “Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with you, Blessed are you among women”... Read more

A prophet is not necessarily someone who has a supernatural vision of the future. He may simply be a person who can see certain trends in the present, understand the underlying issues and therefore attempt to predict how things may go in the future. Here are some trends I see in the American Church and how I see the future developing. The first thing is the disintegration of denominationalism. It used to be that the different Protestant groups were distinct... Read more

Go here for my latest post at Integrated Catholic Life– on dealing with the devil. Read more

Is Christianity an ideology? First we have to ask, “What is an ideology?” An ideology is a good idea. But when the good idea is the only idea it becomes not only an ideology, but an idol. That is to say, it is a god that looks good, but it is a false god, and as we know, all false gods must be thrown down. False religion must be named and shamed, and not only named and shamed, but damned.... Read more