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November 2012

November 03, 2012

All Banning Abortion Does Is Make It Unsafe (Rebuttal Part 2)

We move swiftly to Libby Anne's second claim in her wonderful post denouncing the pro-life...

November 01, 2012

How I Lost Faith In The Pro-life Movement: Rebuttal Up In Hurrrrr (Part 1)

Libby Anne, author of the blog Love, Joy, and Feminism, recently wrote an excellent J'accuse,...

October 2012

October 30, 2012

Why Hurricane Sandy Made Us Happy

"The hurricane blew away the sad, noxious particles which befoul the sorrowful old Eastern sky...

October 23, 2012

Why No One Shuts Up

Silence is that terrifying state in which man is present to himself and to others....

September 2012

September 12, 2012

In Defense of Nice Churches

Every Catholic is at some point obliged to defend the flair his Church has for covering...

August 2012

August 13, 2012

The Authority of the Superhuman Truth

What is Truth? It seems that a good way to begin answering the question of...

August 11, 2012

The Furious Prophecy of Titus Andronicus

In my last two posts we established the following: Prophecy is the province of the...

August 05, 2012

A Pagan Prophecy

Pagan prophecy is sweet. Take Virgil's Fourth Eclogue, a poem written a little while before...

May 2012

May 26, 2012

Converting to Paganism

Christians like to believe that our age is a frightening one, an age in which...

May 11, 2012

Why Christianity Is Far More Sensible Than Whatever You’re Doing Right Now

There are two ways to end small talk: 1. Stop mid-sentence, flap your arms, and...

April 2012

April 17, 2012

Why I Believe In God

I believe in God because the Jews terrify me. The atheistic explanation of religious belief...

April 04, 2012

The Crowning of Thorns

Then the soldiers of the governor took Jesus into the praetorium, and they gathered the...

April 03, 2012

The Scourging at the Pillar

So when Pilate saw that he was gaining nothing, but rather that a riot was...

April 02, 2012

The Agony in the Garden

He said to them, 'My soul is sorrowful to the point of death. Wait here, and...

February 2012

February 20, 2012

Why Modern Man Wouldn’t Like Heaven (If He Had the Balls to Get There)

"The joys of heaven are for most of us, in our present condition, an acquired taste." I...

February 08, 2012

Priests and Pokemon

(Warning: May be entirely incomprehensible to those born before the 90's.) I am currently and wonderfully...

January 2012

January 16, 2012

An Open Invitation To David Crowder To Join the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church

Dear Mr. Crowder, Thanks to your fine work, I find myself in one of the...

December 2011

December 10, 2011

The Only Rule Christians Must Obey

Contrary to popular belief, the problem with moral relativism is not that it allows far...

December 08, 2011

All That Emanates From…

...points back to. The ripples point back to the rock, the cosmic radiation to the...

November 2011

November 18, 2011

On Playing Pretend

Go read something else, I don't know if this makes any sense. I suppose admitting...

October 2011

October 26, 2011

How To Pray Badly

If you look at a thing 999 times, you are perfectly safe; if you look...

October 05, 2011

Serial Killers Are Boring

Our world is in the pitifully awkward position of informing us that our gravest sins...

August 2011

August 28, 2011

How To Love a Girl

There are two ways not to love a girl. The first is the most obvious,...

July 2011

July 26, 2011

Internet Pride

I have an enormous respect for the way humanity has chosen to describe God. The...

July 14, 2011

Suffer On

About two weeks ago, sitting on my front porch and deep-talkin', a dear friend of...

March 2011

March 10, 2011

Sitting Where We Sat

A squirrel in the woods - doing whatever it is that squirrels do to avoid...

February 2011

February 13, 2011

All Praise To God the Forgetful

There's a great story about St. Margaret Mary Alacoque who, when she first started recieving visions...

February 06, 2011

Peace, Love AND A SWORD.

Happy Sabbath! Peace be with you! Christ - that crazy rabbi - was all about...

January 2011

January 06, 2011

Doubt.

First of all, many apologies for my prolonged vacation. I wanted to get my life...

December 2010

December 28, 2010

Wine When It Is Red

It was truthfully said that if Catholicism had not elevated wine to a sacrament, another...