While in Seoul, South Korea this summer, I had the opportunity to attend Saturday evening Mass at Myongdong Cathedral with a young French physicist friend. I couldn’t understand a word—it was entirely in Korean—but I was deeply moved. There were no rich vestments, incense, Gregorian . . . . Continue Reading »
There’s just something about a news article entitled ” When Sex Leads To A Stroke ” that makes my eyebrows rise with suspicion. Headlines, of course, are written to grab the attention of the reader, so they tend to lean towards exaggeration. But the title of this article . . . . Continue Reading »
“Vengeance is mine”, saith the Lord—but this does not prevent His working through fully conscious secondary causes. One inspired avenging angel tricked would-be scammers in Nigeria into re-enacting the Monty Python “Dead Parrot” sketch. The result is a hilarious object . . . . Continue Reading »
This YouTube video demonstrates the garbage thrown by animal rights activists and those who make a quasi-religion out of the environment.Governor Sarah Palin does indeed, support aerial hunting of wolves. But not for fun (and she has never done it). The point is predator control, as an article in . . . . Continue Reading »
He was an ordinary man, on many counts: a husband, a father, a former Vietnam pilot. He worked his farm in Nokesville, VA, and gave hayrides to the local kids and built bonfires every fall; he coached soccer and basketball at my high school and laid the floor of our first real gym, which doubled as . . . . Continue Reading »
More inspiring words from Benedict XVI as he addressed young people on the steps of Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris this week: [God] invites you to see in your neighbours the brothers and sisters whom God has given you, in order to live with them in human and spiritual fellowship—in other words, . . . . Continue Reading »
From the September issue of Magnificat : The miniature is part of a manuscript, a psalter/hymnal destined for the liturgical use of monks, which dates back to the 1040s and belonged to the monastery of Saint-Germain-des-Prés before its acquisition in 1795 by the National Library of . . . . Continue Reading »
Ryan Sayre Patrico noted yesterday how he heard the news of his two friends’ deaths last week on Facebook: “The horrible news was announced almost immediately on the popular social-networking website, sandwiched between two other people declaring that their weekend hadn’t lived up . . . . Continue Reading »
People are losing trust in medicine. This is a very bad thing. And doctors are taking note. From a column by a surgeon named Pauline Chen published in the New York Times: “I don’t rely on the doctor anymore. These days, you have to look out for yourself.”Those words, and the smell . . . . Continue Reading »
Thomas Jefferson and I apparently think alike. A couple of weeks ago I argued that Sarah Palin was offering a much-needed challenge to the over-educated “wonks” who think themselves entitled to rule. In the Weekly Standard , the great Reagan biographer Steven Hayward writes that . . . . Continue Reading »
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