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Reader Madeline DuBois Foley writes:

For my fellow pro-life Christians: “We don’t have a Planned Parenthood problem, we have a sin problem. The problem is the culture and the human heart: people aren’t going to change, whether or not we regulate abortion. Regardless, the right to an abortion is constitutional, as ruled in Roe v. Wade, so regulating the businesses […]

George Lucas’ Dog: Advancing Human Culture and Theology…

…more than any dog who ever lived.  Over on FB, John Matthew Swaim tells the tale of how, trying to get his kids to go to bed, he was confronted with a bright question: Does Chewbacca have a soul? Summoning his Catholic Thomistic powers to their height, he replied: Aquinas says that the soul is, […]

On Differences in the Gospels

We continue looking at Jesus and the Canaanite Woman and some of the issues in textual criticism of the gospels over at : Perhaps the clearest illustration of the fact that the gospels are “living memory” accounts of eyewitnesses is seen in the narrative of the Institution of the Eucharist.  Here is the central rite […]

All Souls Day

On November 4, 1983, I saw my Dad for the last time. He had slipped into a coma the day before after checking into Providence Hospital with a bleeding ulcer. His liver could not handle the amount of blood protein his digestive tract was digesting. It created ammonia that went into the blood and sent […]

Hobbit Drinking Medley

So this is pretty great:

Fredo Trump, Who Makes Daddy Look like Einstein

decided to hold forth on socialism and trick-or-treating last night. It did not go well. St. John Chrysostom, following pretty much every parable Jesus tells about the relationship of rich and poor, says that the rich exist for the sake of the poor and (hold on to your hats) the poor exist for the salvation […]

Eye of the Tiber Kills Me

Catholic Costume Stores Across Country Reveal Most Popular Halloween Costume Is Slutty Mark Shea I suppose that’s a step up from last year’s Walking Dead Mark Shea.

A pretty good recap of where the Russia Investigation is So Far

I enjoy anything by Rod Bennett

…but I especially enjoy Rod Bennett when he holds forth on Halloween: Today is Halloween — and, as you may have noticed, many of our Evangelical friends now shun America’s October spook festival altogether. They tell their children that Halloween is “the devil’s holiday” and that trick-or-treating is little better than dabbling with a Ouija board or […]

George Will Does Yeoman Service Warning Against the Nazis of the Alt Right

Here’s his column.