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Days 3.5 and 4 of the Great Shea Western Journey of Discovery

So after I signed off last time, we headed off to Crater Lake, a trip of only 140 or so miles which Garmin prophesied would take us till 6:00 PM.  I scoffed.  Scoffed, I tell you. Never scoff at Garmin. To be sure, we traveled through gorgeous country, not to mention Gorge-ious country, full of […]

Raymond Arroyo: Policy Over Fidelity

In which Mike Lewis of Where Peter Is begins a long-overdue and necessary look at the Pied Piper of EWTN, who leads the sheep away from the teaching of the Church and toward the sundry Right Wing Culture Warriors and liars at war with Pope Francis and the Magisterium: Laura Ingraham’s dismissive attitude towards the […]

Grace is Dark Matter

It’s everywhere, but you seldom see or hear about it:

Why Creeds?

The first of a seven part series: G.K. Chesterton once remarked, “It is very hard for a man to defend anything of which he is entirely convinced. It is comparatively easy when he is only partially convinced. He is partially convinced because he has found this or that proof of the thing, and he can […]

David Warren on Arnaud Beltrame

God still makes saints. Here was a man who believed in saints. I do not mean this casually. Raised in a modern home, free of religion, he was called to military service. As a French soldier, he was decorated for his bravery in Iraq. In his thirties, he became a Catholic convert; made a pilgrimage […]

Days 1 to 3 of the Grand Western Tour Adventure

Sea Lion Caves smell like fish, which is nice for those of us who like the smell of fish. But permit me to begin at the beginning as we make our twisty-turny way down Highway 101 on the Oregon Coast, looking out at the remote horizon, compensating for inertia with each curve and struggling to […]

French waiter says firing for rudeness is…

“discrimination against my culture.” There is something so reassuringly Gallic in this story.  It’s like the peace that comes with knowing Spring will come again.

Quite accurate, actually

Any resemblance between this cartoon and my parenting style

…is purely coincidental: Next up: Rainbows are not guides to pots of gold but are, in fact, sunlight refracted through rain which will reveal the chemical composition of the sun.

Did an Interview with a reporter for LiveScience.com

He wanted background on the Church’s theology of Hell because he was doing a story on the Francis/Scalfari kerfuffle. We talked for about 45 minutes and it was such an interesting chat that I thought it would be good to turn the interview into a podcast. He very kindly let me have his audiofile of […]