“Are women priests necessarily pagans?” asks a reader. Yes and no.  No, of course they’re not necessarily conscious pagans. Many of the women priests I knew in the Anglican Church were just nice, good, pious Christian ladies who wanted to serve Jesus and his church. They were not all bra burning feminists, men haters or wacky eco-femi-nazis. Their theology was mainstream and a fairly orthodox version of Protestantism. In saying this, it should be noted that a survey amongst Anglican clergy did find... Read more

In the combox someone has commented that creationists are loonies who believe that dinosaurs helped build the pyramids 3,000 years ago. I guess nothing gets my goat more than a person who first creates a straw man characature of the beliefs of someone they disagree with, and then knocks it down with disdain. This tendency annoys me because it is the way so many Protestants behave in respect to Catholicism: “Oh, you Catholics all worship Mary and we know the... Read more

Read this article from the Daily Telegraph to learn how Wicca is not only attracting more and more women, but how feminism in the ‘Christian’ Protestant Churches is gradually changing the theology from Christianity to open paganism. Those of us who were opposed to women priests in the Anglican church years ago predicted that it would eventually lead to paganism. I can remember referring to women priests as ‘priestesses’ only to have the proponents say, “Oh you mustn’t call us... Read more

Gerald Warner of London’s Daily Telegraph has this robust article about the US bishops attack on Joe Biden. It’s about time the bishops correct the Kennedy-Pelosi-Biden type of Catholics. Three cheers! Read more

This article from London’s Daily Telegraph shakes up the image of Sarah Palin as a goofy know-nothing redneck, and shows that she is a not a hick, but a slick and shrewd politician with ten years experience in the corridors of Alaskan power. Read it for another view. Read more

There’s some fuzzy thinking among Catholics on the issue of abortion and war. The argument goes like this: “Vote Democrat and innocent babies get killed through abortion. Vote Republican and innocent people get killed in an unjust war. Since you’re going to end up with killing either way, let’s ignore those issues and focus on the economy.” The subtext is, “I’m going to vote Democrat even if their candidate does support partial birth abortion.” This is a total cop out.... Read more

Much has been spouted about Sarah Palin’s lack of experience, but do you know what? You can buy experience. You can buy brains. You can buy advice, and every President has the best that money can buy. What you can’t buy is integrity, guts, brains, passion and chutzpah. Sarah Palin seems to have all that and more. Furthermore, her youth and lack of experience is actually likely to make her more reliant on the expert advice and experience of others.... Read more

If you’ve seen Mel Gibson’s film Apocolypto you’ll remember the pretty graphic scenes of human sacrifice. Most primitive religions featured human sacrifice and ritualistic cannibalism in some form or other at some point. The logic was pretty simple: to appease the gods you gave them something valuable. What would they like? Life. How do you give them life? The life is in the blood, so you have to shed blood. What life is best? Pretty young virgins, lovely children, strong young... Read more

Here’s my latest article  for InsideCatholic. It’s looking at where and why and how Ecumenism with Anglicans might move forward. See what you think. Read more

Just look at Speaker of the House,  Nancy Pelosi the ‘loyal and devoted Catholic’ lying through her teeth about what the church teaches. This clip also has Obama’s infantile answer: “The question of when human life begins is beyond my pay grade…” So this is a smart Harvard educated guy?  The other awful thing about Pelosi is that she goes on to promote contraception openly and then piously says, “We want to reduce the number of abortions, all of us... Read more