As promised, I have deleted my lengthy post of February 1, "Which contest is worth pissing in?". I did so in order to respect the ...

1. Amy Welborn's husband, Michael Dubruiel, has died unexpectedly. She and their children need your prayers. Amy has also asked those w...

Consider this AP story , dated yesterday, about the opening of the Apostolic Penitentiary to public view. I've long been amused by that ...

Today, in the calendar for the Roman liturgy according to the ordinary form, we celebrate the Baptism of the Lord . In the New Testament, th...

This is the third time in less than a year that I feel truly sad to hear of the death of a public figure. One of the other occasions was B...

Every religious conservative of a certain age knows William Butler Yeats poem " The Second Coming " and can recite its best-known ...

See David Pryce-Jones' blog for the best obit of the boring, boorish playwright I've seen. The best lines about him: "Pinter ...

As the new calendar year approaches and the Christmas season continues, I want to address the general exhaustion by recommending meditation ...

The 14th-century Dominican Johann Tauler wrote as follows on the Gospel for today's feast in the Roman calendar for the ordinary form of...

Yesterday, the Pope spoke of the need to recognize and defend something called the "ecology of man." Significantly, the occasion...

I was both saddened and encouraged to learn last week of the death of Avery Dulles, SJ, prince of the Church and de facto dean of America...

Thanks to all who've expressed concern about me. I've been spending the last few months looking for full-time work and doing occasio...

Like several other friends, Prof. Scott Carson has called my attention to this video from Catholicvote.com: I agree wholeheartedly that the...

HT to Mark Shea .

No, I don't mean Sarah Palin, though I would enjoy applying that theme to her. I mean the Mother of God. Today is the Feast of Our Lady ...

There are many such lies, but today I can only call attention to three. One is simply American; two are American and Catholic. First, as I ...

Years ago, when it still made sense for me to subscribe to print periodicals, I used to get a conservative journal called Modern Age. It was...