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I Scream Therefore I Am

My essay this week for Imaginative Conservative is an abridged version of one of the chapters of my book The Quest for the Creed Pleasure anesthetizes the soul, but pain is the pinch that wakes us up. What makes us face the largest and most dangerous questions of life? Sometimes pleasure, but more often pain. Someone [Read More...]

You Can’t Make Me Be Good!

Reading Mark Steyn here on the corruption in American society it reminded me of something my brother Daryl once said years ago. Some cop had been arrested for taking bribes and Daryl said, “When a whole society is corrupt how would you expect to have honest policemen?” In other words, when there is moral failure [Read More...]

How Kansas’ New Anti Abortion Legislation Turns the Story

Wow! Kansas Governor and Catholic convert, Sam Brownback signs a law banning “dismemberment abortion.” And the baby killers are outraged. CNN reports here. Planned Parenthood Advocates of Kansas and Mid-Missouri sharply criticized the move, which it described as the latest in a series of “extreme political measures aimed at denying women access to health care [Read More...]

The Facts: Atheism is Dying Out

We often hear from atheists how religion is dying out as mankind comes to see the clear light of reason. Atheist “intellectuals” speak disparagingly about religion and predict that mankind is on the cusp of a new age in which religion will simply disappear as science, technology and reason are in the ascendant. The facts [Read More...]

Celebrate Divine Mercy Weekend with Johnette Benkovic

Join me, Steve Wood and Johnette Benkovic for a great Divine Mercy Conference this coming weekend at Our Lady of the Rosary Church in Greenville, SC Combining with the church’s emphasis on the family, this conference will outline how the Divine Mercy devotion helps us through family and personal crises. Saturday April 11 is the [Read More...]

Holy Saturday and Lord of the Rings

One of Catholicism’s greatest contributions is the great artists it has produced. I have written elsewhere about how the deeply incarnation and sacramental vision of Catholicism helps to inspire art that works at a deeper level than anything the world (and non Catholic Christians) can produce. One of the best examples of this is the [Read More...]

Pizza, Persecution, and Police

A pizzeria owner in small town America is hounded into hiding with death threats, computer assault, pornography violence and arson threats. No conversation. No discussion. Just raw bullying. Rod Dreher has an excellent conversation here with a law professor who is pessimistic about religious freedom in the USA after the events this week in Indiana. [Read More...]

When I Survey the Wondrous Cross

Supporting the Folks at Memories Pizza

A Go Fund Me account has been set up here to support the O’Connor family –the owners of Memories Pizza in Walkerton, Indiana. It already stands at over $200K. Why is this kind of gesture important? Not because thousands of people are saying, “Yeh. We hate gays. We are in favor of discrimination!” No. Those [Read More...]

My Interview With Roma Downey

I have to admit, I don’t watch TV and I was living in England when Touched by an Angel was a hit, so I didn’t really know who Roma Downey was. I’ve since been told that she’s a pretty famous TV star and with her husband Mark Burnett a big Hollywood power broker. So I was pleased [Read More...]