Silly God, voting is for kids! (updated)

Last updated on: June 11, 2011 at 6:25 pm By Sam Rocha

I find professional sports and professional politics to be very similar—if not identical. For one, neither is very serious. Like Trix: they are for kids. One of the most deleterious effects of the anti-culture we find ourselves in is this developmental inversion: adults are treated—and behave—like children, and children are expected to be more like adults. Grown men and women spend their lives playing games, divided by plastic, petty rivalries and addictions that have been built for our cheap, self-destructive... Read more

“Freedom for Love,” now on iTunes!

Last updated on: June 10, 2011 at 2:36 pm By Sam Rocha

As I announced in April, I just released a 5 track EP entitled, Freedom for Love. Many told me to let them know when it becomes available on iTunes; and here it is. You can also order a copy through the independent music site, CD Baby. Thanks to those who have already purchased copies! -Sam Read more

Catholic Mom in Need of Prayer

Last updated on: June 9, 2011 at 1:01 pm By Sofia Loves Wisdom

While pregnant with Baby #6, a friend of mine–a devout Catholic mom–suffered from terrible headaches. The doctors finally ordered an MRI and they discovered a brain tumor. They waited until her baby was born and tomorrow she goes in for treatment to shrink the tumor. The doctors are pretty certain that it is a benign tumor, but the size and location of it is problematic. My friend asks that you storm heaven with prayers. She is worried because she doesn’t... Read more

Lifesitenews: Credit Where Credit Is Due

Last updated on: May 3, 2017 at 7:02 pm By Brett Salkeld

Lifesitenews is a very conflicting reality for a Catholic like me. While I think that a pro-life news service is an absolutely essential tool for reducing and criminalizing abortion, especially in the face of a mainstream media that regularly ignores or misrepresents the issues involved, I am often disappointed with Lifesitenews. I read their daily e-mail faithfully because of my concern to be informed about developments in this area, but their modus operandi often comes across as counterproductive. Attacking faithful... Read more

Take a Moment to Feel Good about Being a Catholic

Last updated on: May 3, 2017 at 7:02 pm By Brett Salkeld

OK, I know we’re not really allowed to do this, but maybe someone needed a pick me up today. Brett Salkeld is a doctoral student in theology at Regis College in Toronto. He is a father of two (so far) and husband of one. Read more

Memories of Montana

Last updated on: June 7, 2011 at 2:11 pm By Matt Talbot

Bourbon twilit skies and grass and range and elk Dust and cold and dewless hard frigid morning Long endless drive and thinking Woody Guthrie and The warm kind eyes of a stranger at the end of it. Read more

Kindness and Civilization

Last updated on: June 6, 2011 at 10:46 am By Tim Muldoon

In an earlier post I highlighted the theory that religion gave rise to civilization. Now comes another theory that might even further explain the beginnings of civilization: kindness. The research by Brian Hare of Duke University’s Institute for Brain Sciences suggests that kindness provided the origins of the socialization among hominids. Gareth Cook summarizes the idea in the Boston Globe: Human intelligence is often described as a steady accumulation of new kinds of smarts, as the brain expanded. But Hare... Read more

A Deceptively Simple Question on Homosexuality

Last updated on: June 4, 2011 at 10:23 am By David Cruz-Uribe

This post is to ask a question I have been thinking about for a while, but after reading the commentary on Brett’s recent post on homosexuality, I thought my question might provide further grounds for discussion. I suspect it was answered, at least obliquely, in the commboxes, but I think there is some value in making it explicit. The genesis of this is a discussion I was part of some years ago. In it, one of my colleagues defended homosexual... Read more

Michael Symmons Roberts: Annunciation at the Hookses

Last updated on: June 2, 2011 at 8:17 am By Mark DeFrancisis

With or without wings he is coming at incredible speed from everywhere to this baking terrace – to here – as she pours herself an ice-cold drink outside a house that rocks on cliffs. She wears shades, flakes in a deckchair. A red crescent dries above her lip. O Gabriel make her waking as gentle as the eye-blue of a distant sail. Still she’ll drop her half-full glass in shock and joy at what you ask. With a choked-up ‘yes’... Read more