Repost from The Girl Who Was Saturday. All my life I have been afraid of the dark. I felt sheepish about this for a long time, until the year before college when I found out that St. Francis de Sales was also afraid of the dark. Nothing like having a wise old patron saint who shares [...]
In the last day or so Joseph has called attention to two genuinely Catholic colleges that have taken a stand agains the HHS mandate. I'm happy to say that my Alma Mater is doing the same! TAC's President's letter to Obama Administration was recently posted on our website.
Reading over a writer’s account of her brief acquaintance with the late Christopher Hitchens, it struck me that the first problem of an atheist is that he is bound to be a lonely person. Hitchens, of course, was temperamentally lonely: so irascible by nature, so little prone to give his fellow men credit for virtue, that [...]
A few months back I began doing periodic ... war bulletins, shall we say? on my blog. Here's the latest from that master of propaganda, Slangrine: My dear Wumpick, So, has your patient made any New Year’s resolutions this time round? And how are they going? Please inform me at your earliest convenience. The new year [...]
I'm a fairly regular reader of the National Catholic Register online. Recently the Review's John Burger interviewed Joseph Pearce on Solzhenitsyn: on the importance of Solzhenitsyn's Christian perspective on political and social problems, on the new edition of Joseph's book on Solzenitsyn, and on Joseph's interview with the very private author. May the readers of StAR [...]
Ah, Thanksgiving! The time to give thanks for ... well, what else but secularists waking up to the folly of their secularist assumptions! Who knew the mainstream would get so pro-life? A Down Syndrome infant is hired by modeling agency. The Onion gets surprisingly serious on China's one-child policy. And Apple's "Siri" won't advise on abortion [...]
Every now and then I am tempted to throw up my hands in frustration over the whole process of petitionary prayer. The other three kinds of prayer don't seem so hard to engage in, or to appreciate the effectiveness of. Adoration—check. God's pretty amazing; and it's not hard to get lost in meditating on his power [...]
In the spirit of Joseph's email tales, here's an exchange I had this afternoon with a Catholic mother. Our 14 year old daughter’s English class is going to read and thoroughly discuss “Flatland” by Abbott. ... I have read the reviews from Wikipedia and tried to find out more indepth from a Catholic Christian perspective if [...]
It was California, in the autumn of 1954, and a graduate student named Joanne had a problem. She had been having an affair with a Muslim immigrant, a man her father did not want her to marry; and she was pregnant. These were the days before abortion was socially acceptable, and Joanne decided to give her [...]
This morning in Union Station I saw one of the most beautiful things I've ever seen. There was a man in his mid forties, bald on top, blue dress shirt, slacks, and tie, briefcase slung over one shoulder—your typical DC professional on his way to some anonymous bureaucratic and probably government office. In his hand was [...]
