Consider it a Friday fast, or a Friday sacrifice. I do not have time to monitor comments right now, and I’m just about sick to death of the fighting, the accusations, the foul (and all-too-easy/convenient) cries of “heresy” on one thread and “racist” on the other. I know we can do better than this. These are tense times; everyone is on edge. And apparently everyone has lost their senses of humor, or their ability to ever give anyone else a... Read more
Via Msgr. Charles Pope — very well done. Cute kid, too! Read more
Because I’m having trouble keeping up with almost everything, right now, I am late to this story, which the deacon picked up last night, to whit: Michael Voris, the founder and host of RealCatholicTV, says he was completely unaware of recently discovered troubles within his organization, involving a staff apologist’s sexually explicit writings, and his nonprofit corporation’s loss of legal status two years ago. “I don’t know what the issue is on any of this stuff,” said Voris, who is... Read more
Glenn Reynolds and Ed Morrissey are writing about the completely out-of-touch optics coming forth from a White House, that — despite the president’s much vaunted, 3-day “listening” tour of the heartland — appears to be staffed with aliens from another galaxy, who really don’t understand why these earthlings aren’t loving their shtick. Reynold’s notes that Matt Drudge is having enormous fun with these spaceman optics, where text and visuals make the messages clear to all but the president: That was... Read more
I really like the logo for this year’s World Youth Day gathering in Madrid: I also like a lot of the writing and reports I’m seeing from pilgrims. Patheos’ own Tim Muldoon’s piece is a very fine exposition of the hopes and faith that lie behind the celebrations that some too-quickly dismiss as “Catholic Woodstock”: In making a pilgrimage to WYD, then, we seek a deeper and a greater hope, one that does not fall prey to the silly trading... Read more
This time of year I generally put together a huge “Vocation Round-up” and give news of vows and clothings and entrances. Here we go. First, the Grandma Nun: When Sister Shirley Shafranek makes her final profession of vows as a Catholic nun Sunday morning, two of her grandchildren will be gift bearers at the Mass. The 59-year-old mother of three and grandmother of five will become the first grandmother ever to join the Sisters of St. Francis of Tiffin as... Read more
On Sunday I’d mentioned that I was reading Mark Steyn’s After America. Finding the book less “LOL funny” than Steyn’s previous book, America Alone, I was nevertheless unable to put After America down, and I write more about it in my column at First Things: I thought of Chesterton a great deal while reading After America. Steyn quotes de Tocqueville liberally throughout the book and makes great, relevant references to H. G. Wells’ Eloi and Morlock populations, but in reading... Read more
Over at First Things Ethan Cordray writes: But what if this [Zombie] fascination is about more than just gross-out gore and action thrills? What if it represents a subtle, subconscious understanding that something is wrong—spiritually wrong—with our culture. Zombies represent the appetite divorced from everything else. They are incapable of judgment, self-awareness, or self-preservation. Though they still move and act, they are not really alive. They hunger and are never filled. And they aren’t just hungry for anything—they specifically want... Read more
Some surprising entries, here. Enjoy. The drill Sargent probably requires a warning or something. Read more
Pope Benedict XVI: Praising Mary is a response to Divine Prophecy David Mills at First Things: The Assumption of Mary is a difficult matter, from the Protestant point of view, because the traces and hints in Scripture are not easily found, unless you assume that they are there to be found, which somewhat defeats the purpose of using Scripture to convince anyone else. Pius XII said only that the dogma “is in wonderful accord with those divine truths given us... Read more
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