Pipe Down, I’m on Vacation!

I’m feeling truly blessed that my office shut down on the Friday afternoon before Christmas and doesn’t reopen until January 2nd. In the time I’ve had off, I’ve been enjoying my family and my leisure time, along with a good supply of alcohol and my fireplace. I haven’t really even given much thought to blogging.
We’ve [...]

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A Blog For Everything

While checking my web stats today, I noticed that someone clicked through to my site from a blog called The Far Sight, which is dedicated to…well, I’ll just let the blogger speak for himself:
During my recent visits on several blogger-pages I found a growing interest in the either beloved or hated Rolls-Royce of the non-liturgical [...]

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Since We’ve Already Perfected Human Rights

…The British government has commissioned a report on how we should handle the rights and ethics of sentient robots.
Robots and machines are now classed as inanimate objects without rights or duties but if artificial intelligence becomes ubiquitous, the report argues, there may be calls for humans’ rights to be extended to them.
It is also [...]

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Weighing In

Pat Buchanan tells us why Ahmadinejad should have been Time Magazine’s “Man of the Year.”
…the refusal to select Ahmadinejad reveals an unwillingness to confront hard truths. For putting his face on Time’s cover would have done a useful service, jolting America to a painful realization. Not only George Bush, but the United States, its [...]

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Cashing In

I’ve thought about it for a while, and I’ve decided that it was time to make some EvilTrad merchandise. I’ve got a lot of ideas of what should be made into shirts, mugs, mousepads, etc., and I’ve got the ability to make them, so I figured – why not?
So I’m proud to introduce some bona [...]

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Prayer Request

Please pray for the soul of a young man named Joseph and the consolation of his family. Joseph was the younger brother of a friend of mine from Phoenix. He was killed yesterday in a tragic car accident when a camper heading in the opposite direction blew a tire and slid over into their lane. [...]

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Uncomfortable With Silence

RAMBLE ALERT
I was confronted yesterday with an increasingly common event – an occasion in which I felt that, under the right conditions, my faith would prompt me to speak up, but circumstances told me to keep quiet.
We had a presentation made at our company about a foundation created by the parents of a child who [...]

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He Frees the Mass, He Frees it Not. He Frees the Mass…

Ok, so maybe it’s not quite the same thing as the actual Motu Proprio coming down from on high, but when the Cardinal playing point-man on the issue at the Ecclesia Dei Commission says that their meeting yesterday was devoted entirely to the forthcoming document on the liberation of the Mass, well, that sounds like [...]

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La Virgen de Guadalupe

I’ve had the privilege of visiting the image of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico City on two separate occasions. I feel that through her intercession I was helped through a difficult time in my life, and I have a special affection for this particular manifestation of Our Blessed Mother.
On one particular occasion, certainly the [...]

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Get Used to This

142-year-old Massachussetts Catholic Church is sold…to become a mosque:
St. Jude Parish was formed in 1998, when St. Matthew and St. Aloysius parishes were merged. Father Pomerleau is also a staff reporter for the Catholic Communications Corp., which publishes The Catholic Observer, newspaper of the Springfield Diocese.
“The parish leadership is very thrilled that it [...]

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