… the Swiss Guard do not respond to fan mail. Or love letters. Specifically mine. Read more

… I’d rather have a tooth extraction sans anesthesia than endure anymore shitty art. Read more

… that it was the bastard sissy cousin of rugby. I have been validated. http://media.theonion.com/flash/video/onn_player.swf?videoid=17603&embedded=true&host=http://www.theonion.comSoccer Officially Announces It Is Gay Read more

… remind him of his future!” Quote attributed to St. Teresa of Avila. Detail of Caravaggio’s Madonna dei Palafrenieri. For R.C. Read more

… I do, I do. Not only are Catholics not afraid of death, we are all around fantastically awesome in our morbidity. We have an active Communion of Saints that we talk to, pray with, and plead for intercession. We grow so attached to saints long dead on this earth that we begin to consider them friends and confidants. We swear they communicate with us using signs and dreams. I am wholeheartedly convinced that the Saints are using my word... Read more

… Don’t forget to check Mr. Sonnen’s blog, Orbis Catholicus Secondus, daily. His is a photographic journal of life in Rome. Lucky bastard. Read more

… Philip Gerard Johnson, a seminarian in the Diocese of Raleigh is in need of prayer. He is back in the hospital as his brain tumor continues to grow. Please remember him in your prayers. Read more

… “I think the “unplugged” version of the song involves the band hitting the IPhone with a stick.” Gotta love the Ironic Catholic. Read more

… and the people rejoiced. A six-story-tall statue of Jesus Christ [nicknamed Touchdown Jesus] with his arms raised along a highway was struck by lightning in a thunderstorm Monday night and burned to the ground, police said. Read more

Commandant Daniel Rudolf Anrig of the Pontifical Swiss Guard, 2009 Read more