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LCWR and Old Mother Hubbard

Barbara Marx Hubbard gets a voice over at the National Catholic Reporter here. She says she is making a response to Cardinal Muller. The problem is, she doesn’t give a response to Cardinal Muller at all. Instead her article is not much more than a load of sentimental mumbo jumbo about “conscious evolution” along with [Read More...]

Michael Ward – C.S.Lewis Scholar

Brandon Vogt has an excellent interview here with Michael Ward–C.S.Lewis scholar and convert. I first met Michael through shared C.S.Lewis contacts and was delighted to find that he and I had many points of congruence. He was ordained as an Anglican priest by my brother in law, received into the Catholic Church by my friend [Read More...]

Theology or Ideology?

As our society drifts ever closer to a kind of de facto atheism the relevance and significance of theology wanes. What use has the secularist, the materialist, the default atheist of theology? For such people theology is a ridiculous study of the ridiculous. It is an illusionary discipline that presumes to study a fabricated fiction. [Read More...]

The Devil in Harvard Yard

I have been following the furore over the ridiculous and wicked plan to hold a Black Mass at Harvard. I’ll be commenting more on it later, but here are John Zmirak’s comments. As usual he goes to the heart of the matter with some biting wit. Imagine if a group of undergrads organized a Seder [Read More...]

Coming Up for Air

Readers of this blog may have been wondering where I’ve been. Not wanting to complain or seek sympathy, but it’s been a tough six weeks. It started on a Friday morning with the sudden death of a parishioner from a heart attack. The father of three school aged girls, Sean was a faithful Knight of [Read More...]

The Screen Revolution

iScream, uScream, we all scream for iScreens Here is my latest article for The Imaginative Conservative website–in which I discuss the impact the omnipotent screen will have on language. With the predominance of textual language we forget that language was first meant to be spoken not written and read. In the beginning was the Word [Read More...]

Bishop Gene Robinson– the Brave Pioneer

News today is that the Episcopal Church’s first openly gay bishop–Gene Robinson is divorcing his “husband” Mark Andrew. Bishop Robinson is fond of portraying himself as something of a brave pioneer–the first to forge the way forward into the brave new world of “Marriage Equality” aka Serial Marriage. Gene was the first to not only [Read More...]

How to Deal with Heretics: Clarity, Charity and Hilarity

Here is my latest piece for The Catholic thing There was an odious man named Frank in our fundamentalist church when I was a boy who had a brood of badly behaved children. When one of them would act up, Frank would haul the miscreant out of the sanctuary and wallop him. When he would [Read More...]

Superman and Hitchcock’s Rope

I recently came across an early Alfred Hitchcock film I hadn’t heard of before. It’s called Rope. In the opening scene two upper class college boys–Brandon Shaw and Philip Morgan– strangle a classmate and hide him in a chest. The leader of the two has then invited various friends to a party and the dinner is served [Read More...]

Give Me the Pomp and Ceremony…

The other day I took a funeral for Arthur– one of our WWII vets. He was a sweet, faithful and good Catholic gentleman and a decorated WWII pilot. At the graveside a couple of Marines were present in their dress uniforms for the flag ceremony. They stood tall with shoes shined and hat brims low. [Read More...]