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Engrish

By Adam Minihan | August 23, 2014

Sooo… if the washing is not made in China, I guess we are supposed to leave the child in. Good to have clarity.

My Son the Walrus

By Adam Minihan | August 23, 2014

Yr. Obdt. Svt., Peter the Goofy, and a possibly puzzled Fr. Marcin at a recent parish ice cream social:

Are Saints New Revelation?

By Adam Minihan | August 22, 2014

It’s a question under discussion over at the Register.

Faith on the Ferry

By Adam Minihan | August 22, 2014

My friend Joyce Crain is doing very cool stuff with Scripture study on the ferry between San Juan Island (in Puget Sound) and the mainland.Check it out!

One California Town’s Answer to Police Brutality…

By Adam Minihan | August 22, 2014

…has lowered the use of force by 60%.  It’s pretty simple: the cops are required to wear video cameras while on duty.One unexpected side effect of the surveillance state is that the police are being watched too.So when some cop decides to show a guy in a wheelchair who is boss:or bash in a woman’s…

I love Walk Off the Earth

By Adam Minihan | August 22, 2014

Tom McDonald is right

By Adam Minihan | August 22, 2014

The Imaginative Conservative (along with the American Conservative) has become one of the few organs of conservative opinion left that I respect. Tom writes:Ralph Nader Understands Conservatism Better Than Most “Conservatives”Probably because he wants to conserve something.

Some people will see this meme…

By Adam Minihan | August 22, 2014

…and concur that we need a more efficient police state to keep an eye on all those undocumented workers who work for crap wages and are thoroughly integrated into our economy enough to be exploited, but not to have rights–as the author of the meme intends.  Others, like me, look at it and think “Those…

Prayer Request

By Adam Minihan | August 21, 2014

A reader writes:I have been praying non ceasing for 4 weeks since my husband first told me he wanted divorced, it seems the harder I pray the meaner he gets about this, please I need everyone’s help to pray to Our God the Father that he would soften my husbands heart about me and fill…

St. Padre Pio’s 5 Point Rule of Life

By Adam Minihan | August 21, 2014

When we think of great mystics and wonder-working saints, we often think of those who lived centuries ago. Yet, St. Pio of Pietrelcina was both a mystic and a performer of many miracles—and he died in 1968, only 46 years ago. In many ways, this saint was and is a contradiction to our scientific, rational age, and despite their eagerness…