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An old song with a haunting pro-life message: There was a fair maiden lived in the north Oh the rose and the linsey – oh She fell in love with her father’s clerk Down by the Greenwood side – oh He courted her for a year and a day Oh the rose and the linsey [...]

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A reply to Shawn McElhinney: “Authentic Traditionalism is not found in externals Jeff. It is akin to an authentic observation of the Law which Our Lord commanded and which those who were obsessed with external rituals (i.e. Pharisees) did not react to well.” Catholicism requires externals, Shawn. Lex orandi, lex credendi. But I don’t recall [...]

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Few things are more likely to arouse the contempt and derision of modern intellectuals — even Catholic intellectuals — than stating one’s belief in a young earth. Today’s image-savy Catholics apparently see the young-earth controversy as an opportunity to prove that they are not wooden fundamentalists or biblical literalists or anti-science or anti-intellectual or anything [...]

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Evolutionism is a theory that badly needs refuting, but you’re not going to do it by telling me that the creation of man and the creation of the fruit fly were equally miraculous events … OK, I promise not to do that. … nor by asserting vague reservations about the speed of light and the [...]

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A reader writes: “A few months ago in our local catholic church, I saw a holy card or [something] similar that depicted a contemporary ‘saint’ or some other ‘venerable’ person. He was pictured standing on a rural hillside in perhaps Switzerland or Germany and was clearly ‘smoking a pipe’ … Several weeks later when I [...]

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“Time to calibrate your gaydar, because Bravo’s ‘Boy Meets Boy’ (Tuesdays at 9 p.m.) is finally here. America’s first gay dating show isn’t just a dating show, you see. It’s a sexual shell game in which a mix of gay and straight suitors compete for ‘one exceptional gay man’ and, oh yeah, a secret cash [...]

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My love and tender one are you My sweet and lovely son are you You are my love and darling you Unworthy, I of you Your mild and gentle eyes proclaim The loving heart with which you came A tender helpless tiny babe With boundless gifts of grace King of Kings, most holy one Gone [...]

Continue Reading The Christ Child’s Lullaby

I received one more phone call this morning from a polite lady who also wanted to “confirm” the story, saying “Maybe you don’t realize how big this is and how many people are talking about it.” At one point she asked what I would do if I found out one of my children was homosexual. [...]

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