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Hey! You! The 36th Annual Chesterton Conference

is coming to Colorado Springs, Colorado July 27 – 29 on the campus of the University of Colorado-Colorado Springs. Speakers include (among others) Joseph Pearce, Fr. James Schall, David Mills (former editor of First Things), Christopher Check (President of Catholic Answers), author Regina Doman, Dale Ahlquist and Yr. Obdt. Svt. If you come, all your [Read More...]

John Oliver on Vaccines

The man continues his emphatically NSFW work of educating a postmodern population that, having abandoned the idea of truth, has abandoned the idea of scientific truth: Me: I don’t want my grandchildren to die, so I appreciate his work in education.

There’s more to the Church…

…than priestly and religious vocations. Indeed, there’s more than the lay vocation. Vocations are means. The end and goal is the Beatific Vision. My latest at The Catholic Weekly.

Yay! Got my copy!

…of Fruitful Discipleship by Sherry Weddell! The scenes with the killer dinosaurs, car chases, and enormous space fruitbats are brilliantly drawn. Can’t wait to find out how it ends!

Health Care Train Wreck

Perhaps it’s time to ask “Given that this plan will actually increase abortions by denying maternity care, perhaps prolife people should consider the possibility that blind support for it is ill-advised. Maybe prolife people should consider doing things that will decrease, not increase, the death toll of both unborn and born children, not to mention [Read More...]

What is the Whole Life Movement?

Here’s a nice sketch: “A pro-life movement that ignores infant mortality rates, starvation, or the degradation of the environment simply does not deserve the label ‘pro-life.’ It becomes a mere euphemism for supporting laws that restrict access to abortion. It becomes detached from the understanding of human dignity and worth that should animate the movement. [Read More...]

Good News! We still live in a democracy!

…and your voice still matters, especially to a Senate that is fearful of a massive popular backlash against their murderous, thieving “health care” monstrosity. A reader writes: Posted by a friend: “Just got off a healthcare coalition call with Senator Schumer. His message: 1. Grassroots pressure will determine whether this passes. 2. They’re not seeing [Read More...]

A reader asks for precision on Leo XIII

A reader writes: You recently posted a quote attributed to Leo XIII that “Once the demands of necessity and propriety have been met the rest of your money belongs to the poor.” This is not exactly what he said. According to this, what he actually said was But when the demands of necessity and propriety [Read More...]

What? You still haven’t registered for the 36th Annual Chesterton Conference, which…

is coming to Colorado Springs, Colorado July 27 – 29 on the campus of the University of Colorado-Colorado Springs. Speakers include (among others) Joseph Pearce, Fr. James Schall, David Mills (former editor of First Things), Christopher Check (President of Catholic Answers), author Regina Doman, Dale Ahlquist and Yr. Obdt. Svt. Don’t miss it if you [Read More...]

Sherry Weddell on the New Evangelization

Sez she: In December of 1990, Pope John Paul II issued these words of prophetic power in Redemptoris Missio: God is opening before the Church the horizons of a humanity more fully prepared for the sowing of the Gospel. I sense that the moment has come to commit all of the Church’s energies to a [Read More...]