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Looking for work?

By Adam Minihan | October 20, 2014

Preschool Teachers & Subs Needed ASAP! Internships Also Available!JP2 Preschool (http://www.jp2preschool.com/), a private Catholic Preschool in the Redmond/Kirkland/Bellevue area, is looking for a Lead Teacher, assistant teachers as well as several substitute teachers to hire ASAP! We are a small school, offering a mixed age program for kids between the ages of 2 1/2 and…

Any Friend of Brandon Vogt’s is a Friend of Mine

By Adam Minihan | October 20, 2014

Brandon writes:You probably know the Church is holding a Synod on the Family. The gathering was called to discuss new ways to strengthen families and encourage faithful marriages.But even considering the Synod, I think the most beautiful, edifying words on marriage to emerge this year came through this must-read article:Let Me Now Sing of My…

Well done, Officer Mook!

By Adam Minihan | October 20, 2014

Well done indeed!

Acceptable Losses

By Adam Minihan | October 20, 2014

Low wage workers are lazy and deserve to be punished with death, like this woman. They are Takers who do not deserve a living wage. Unlike productive Makers such as the millionaire members of Congress or the living saints like Donald Trump and Paris Hilton who totally deserve their earnings due to hard, productive work.

Interesting New Book on Catholic History Forthcoming

By Adam Minihan | October 20, 2014

Arriving next month from Christendom PressThe Past as Pilgrimage: Narrative, Tradition, and the Renewal of Catholic HistoryChristopher Shannon Christopher O. BlumIn this book, Catholic historians Shannon and Blum challenge the secular bias currently prevalent among professional historians, and argue for the compatibility of faith and reason in the study of the past. Inspired by the…

The Heroic Minute Challenge: Day 7: St. Josemarie Escriva and Rest

By Adam Minihan | October 19, 2014

I have to admit that today’s Heroic Minute was challenging for me. After all, it is Sunday morning – probably my favorite time of the week. Even God himself rested on Sunday. Surely that doesn’t mean that I can’t sleep in, just a little…..The wise St. Escriva addresses the concept of rest in his book…

The Heroic Minute Challenge: Day 1: The First Supernatural Reflection of the Day

By Adam Minihan | October 18, 2014

Day One….YOWSA….that was not easy. My alarm rang at 7:00AM; which is the time I chose for this first day of the challenge (the first day back to “normal life” after Easter break). My first instinct was to hit the snooze button (big shock there), but a vague memory of some crazy challenge entered my mind.…

The Gay Vanguard of History Threatens to Bury Me

By Adam Minihan | October 18, 2014

When I’m not busy being a Damn Librul disguised as a Catholic and bent on destroying the Church with my Damn Librulism and sinister pro-homosexual agitprop that must be exposed, I’m working hard to be a troglodyte bigot who won’t get with the homosexual program.  Case in point, this charming exchange with the Vanguard of…

“I Can Tolerate Anything Except the Outgroup”

By Adam Minihan | October 18, 2014

A very perceptive essay that, inter alia, mentions Chesterton’s Father Brown while talking shrewdly about the difference between actually forgiving and merely excusing things we don’t really think are sins.Real forgiveness is hard because it addresses people who, you know, sinned, dammit!  They don’t deserve forgiveness.Correctamundo.  People who have sinned do not deserve forgivenness.  A…

Gigantic Pro-Family Demonstration in Paris

By Adam Minihan | October 18, 2014

A reader writes:I just had to drop you a line to share this with you. Last week, my wife and I were in France on a business trip and, on our last day, happened to run into a massive protest in Paris by La Manif Pour Tous, the French group which stands up for families…