"You don't wake up one morning and decide to perform an act of moral courage. It takes practice." Remember, remember... to read Bill Cain's excellent Powder Plot + Shakespeare play, Equivocation: amzn.to/2DnACAm

once again we must review that normal people are now exposed to things every day that would, literally, previously have only been madness inducing items from fairy tales and ancient legends.

This is a great, lively, joyfully combative podcast by Leah and Mark Oppenheimer. If you want to hear real disagreements about faith and philosophy argued respectfully, give it a listen!

The world needs honest and courageous entrepreneurs and communicators who care for the common good. We sometimes hear the saying: “Business is business!” In reality, it is not so. No one is absorbed by an organization to the point of becoming a mere cog or a simple function. Nor

DEFEAT THE DRAGON OF CHAOS

Tapping my "don't make unholy puppet avatars of dead people" sign once again.

I'm with the Pope.

When the Yale Rep was doing Arcadia I went up to see it for the nth time and recruited every undergrad I knew to see it with me. Among them, one Alexi Sargeant, who dragooned us all into moving props for his The Man Who Was Thursday adaptation. Reader, I married him

It's almost like appointing the guy salivating to commit war crimes was a bad choice, huh.

Stoppard didn’t attend university so he could n’t possibly have written the works attributed to his name. Later generations will contend they must have been written by Richard Dawkins or maybe Stephen Hawking.

"Orders to fire upon the shipwrecked would be clearly illegal." It's thoughtful of the Pentagon to spell this out so clearly!

Maybe a helpful clarification: "Good and evil" are not just terms for "people I like" and "people I don't like." Good is a thing you do! Evil is too. If you use the language of good and evil to justify extrajudicial killings (i.e. murder) there is a word for what you are doing.

Happy Feast! I stand by my piece from 2017: "Mary is the rebuttal to the despair that says human bodies and souls cannot participate in God’s supernatural life." firstthings.com/america-for-th…

No one is garbage. The immigrant is made in the image of God and deserves respect and should not be tossed aside. The child growing in their mother's womb is made in the image of God and worthy of respect. No politician is going to tell me that I have to chose one or the other.

After the penultimate item in a list of three or more items.

Welcome to the lamest cyberpunk dystopia ever invented.

On DOGE’s watch, federal spending did not go down at all. It went up. nytimes.com/2025/12/23/us/…

JUST IN: Leo XIV urges all warring nations to observe 24hrs of peace on Christmas Day: I once again ask all people of good will to respect at least 1 day of peace on the feast of the Savior's birth... Perhaps they will listen to us, and there will be 24 hours - 1 full day of