Month December 2014
There is no shortage of people who will tell you that everything is hunky-dory in the Church and that the recent synod is just the somewhat ugly business of tasty sausage making made visible. What they don’t tell you is… Continue Reading →
A Christmas story with a happy ending. You’ve got to love this. Yahoo reports: A passenger was tossed off a plane at La Guardia Airport on Tuesday after flipping out — because airline workers wished him a merry Christmas. The… Continue Reading →
This is a beautiful story about love. And in a world that seems to be about anything but love this is a nice reminder that doing for others and living for others is at the heart of us all: Deseret… Continue Reading →
The 12 days of Christmas will be cut short this year at just six days because Josh Groban saw his shadow and retreated back to where he resides all the other months of the year when people aren’t interested in… Continue Reading →
Everyone’s always talking about the secularization of Christmas. I’m more concerned right now with the wife-icization of Christmas. I’m supposed to be wrapping my presents for my wife right now so I’m locked in my room but instead of wrapping… Continue Reading →
Over at the Register, I write about common misuses and abuses of the words and concept of Papal Magisterium and what contributes to this confusion. I would be most appreciative if you would give it a read at the Register… Continue Reading →
So there we were on Christmas night. I’ll set the festive scene. A nearly empty Roy Rogers on the New Jersey Turnpike. Muzak “Feliz Navidad” played in the background. A man, his wife, a two year old, and a baby… Continue Reading →
Please, just send the meteor already. I can’t take much more of this. This, this thing was produced and published on youtube by the Pontifical Council for Culture. Yes, the Vatican made this. *subhead*Make it stop!!*subhead*
Salon.com’s headline: “Religion’s smart-people problem: The shaky intellectual foundations of absolute faith” Matt’s headline: “Salon.com’s all-people problem. The shaky intellectually bankrupt foundation of an unread magazine.” Should you believe in a God? Not according to most academic philosophers. A comprehensive… Continue Reading →