Over my lifetime, I have been called many things, some of which are printable. Within the last six years’ worth of blogging, I’ve had a little mud
If you’ve got about four hours to spare — better make it five, for the occasional break — watch all four parts of the 2002
The devil’s finest trick is to persuade you that he doesn’t exist. (Charles Baudelaire) In today’s academic milieu, you should expect that a Black Mass
Dear God. First, the frenzied, howling Sanhedrin. Slapping, punching, spitting all the while … perhaps kicking him if he fell. During the night watch,
G. K. Chesterton remarked once that the Catholic Church is larger on the inside than it appears from the outside. Saints come from all
Is contraception “a hill worth dying on”? asks Austin Ruse, one of the Catholic Church in America’s most sage, most lucid commentators. There is no question that
Eight years ago, I was playing around with Microsoft® Money and found an add-in for investment advice. As part of the program, it asked
People of a certain age ought to remember the routine that made comedian Jeff Foxworthy a household name. And I’ll give just one example:
Three years ago, Jeff Miller (aka the Curt Jester) posted a somewhat-lengthy discussion of the Christmas movies he’d been watching. Along the way, he
This year for Halloween snacks, Mom bought a box of 18 packages of bat- and pumpkin-shaped pretzels. If this year follows the pattern of
Use every man after his desert, and who should ’scape whipping? Shakespeare, Hamlet, II:ii On July 16, 2011, during the funeral rites of Dr. Otto
The Communion song this last Sunday at the 11:30 a.m. Mass was “The Servant Song”. One might say it’s one of those Gather Hymnal songs
Christianity has not been tried hard and found wanting. It has been found difficult; and left untried. G. K. Chesterton, What’s Wrong with the World
It’s difficult to overstate the impact the Holocaust has had on both Jewish and Christian theology … but it can be done. The philosophical influences
In 1968, an ecologist named Garrett Hardin wrote an article for Science magazine titled “The Tragedy of the Commons.” A utilitarian and Malthusian, Hardin argued
It’s never too early in life to treat your children like mushrooms. Or to give them the suspicion that you live in a world only
I’d like to start with a story my cousin Greg sent me: There was a young woman who had been diagnosed with a terminal illness
Sexy adj. /ˈsɛksi/ From sex (Middle French sexe < Latin sexus (“gender”); thought to be connected with Latin seco, secare (“divide, cut”) by the concept of division,
A couple of years ago, on my blog The Impractical Catholic, I made a snarky little comment about atheists feeling unhappy that people still prefer
