What happens, I think, is that the Pastor pulls back on the Cross with his thumb. That opens the lid, and then the Pastor can pour out a glass of cool lemonade for Mrs. Fitzpatrick, the head of the parish chapter of the Church Mission Society, who’s stopped by the rectory to complain about the . . . . Continue Reading »
Hugo Chavez is a murderous kleptocrat who has bankrupted his country, condemned tens of millions to malnutrition despite the country’s (stolen) oil wealth, spied on the United States in cahoots with Fidel Castro and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, given a helping hand to terrorists—and unleashed the . . . . Continue Reading »
This short video says a lot about human exceptionalism—imagine conceiving even doing this performance art much less pulling it off—the wonder of dogs, which we intelligently designed, and the concept of sheer fun that brings so much joy to life.No, this isn’t sheep abuse. . . . . Continue Reading »
So I spent a few days this week attending a conference at Berry College in Rome, Georgia hosted by Peter Lawler and Eric Sands. It was a terrific and well organized series of events capped off by a thought provoking presentation by our own Jim Ceasar on Tocqueville, his consideration of the . . . . Continue Reading »
. . . ways of not playing out in quite the way you’d envisioned sometimes. At least, that’s one way to put it. A friend once told me the story of a play he’d been in, or seen, or heard about, or had a friend who had a friend who had heard this story from someone who was in it, or . . . . Continue Reading »
You realize that while you were experiencing this lifetime of Catholic practice, I was on the Junior High Sunday School Retreat at Panacea Falls. My technical and canonical knowledge about relics would not fill a thimble. Still, there are two in my house. Both of them came to us on the day we were . . . . Continue Reading »
Ready or not, here it comes: President Obama and the Democrats in Congress intend to completely change the health care system of the United States without any meaningful democratic debate. Rather than hold extensive hearings, allow a full airing of one of the most extensive and expensive changes in . . . . Continue Reading »
Browsing around, I spotted a link to a Woman’s Day article with the headline 8 Good-for-You Indulgences. And a question recurred to me—one that perhaps you can answer, Sally.A friend of mine just made a little chunk of money betting that Citibank stock wouldn’t fall any lower—a . . . . Continue Reading »
There it is in black and white: Canon 1190 §1—“It is absolutely forbidden to sell sacred relics.” But the Code of Canon Law doesn’t seem to say that that you can’t buy them. Nor does it say that you can’t sell the reliquary in which a relic happens to . . . . Continue Reading »
The Deep Ecology Movement wants to reduce the human population to 500 million. The genocidal implications of this idea are obvious—although DEs usually say they would like to see it done via voluntary birth control (fat chance), or perhaps a pandemic will do the trick. This is not only a . . . . Continue Reading »
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