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Chance to Do a Work of Mercy

By Adam Minihan | October 2, 2014

This just landed in my mailbox:I’m writing to let you know about a special project my wife and I are working on titled “Catching Faith.” It’s a faith-based film featuring Bill Engvall and many other talented cast members. The story starts with a family who puts their social standing within their community above their own…

Evelyn Waugh also had some interesting remarks on “1984″

By Adam Minihan | October 2, 2014

Here. I wonder what Orwell thought. He could be so good, but then his hostility to the Church would always queer the pitch.

A New Book on Pope John Paul I

By Adam Minihan | October 2, 2014

Reader Lori Pieper writes:I have fantastic news about my book of John Paul I’s writings that I hope you’ll share with your readers — I have a new edition coming out, and have snagged a Cardinal to write the preface!To be exact, the new edition of A Passionate Adventure: Living the Catholic Faith Today is…

The American Conservative…

By Adam Minihan | October 2, 2014

…on the lamentable state of the Thing that Used to Be Conservatism.Heretic-burning “conservatism” can only conceive of criticism as an attack by Outsiders since it is obsessed with trying purge heretics and can no longer conceive of anyone critiquing it because they want a better conservatism.Without a better conservatism, we will get, forever, dumbells like…

The Difference between Colbert and O’Reilly

By Adam Minihan | October 1, 2014

…is that Colbert *means* to be hilarious:The Colbert ReportGet More: Colbert Report Full Episodes,The Colbert Report on Facebook,Video ArchiveEven funnier, the Great Man of FOX News declares that those who ridicule his massively and obviously stupid idea are “dumb“. Since when has an overextended empire that outsourced its security to a foreign mercenaries who did…

Damon Linker Tries to Warn that Making Consent the Sole Criterion of the Good will Lead to Incest

By Adam Minihan | October 1, 2014

…is met with, “Yeah?  So What?” by his readers.I hate being right all the time.Let’s review, in order to prepare for the future, where making consent the sole criterion of the good will lead (here, here, and here).It will lead, not to the triumph of personal autonomy and a golden age of Total Sexual Liberation,…

Library Purges Corrie ten Boom’s “The Hiding Place”…

By Adam Minihan | October 1, 2014

…for being “too Christian”.  One awaits the outcry during “Banned Books Week”.

The Terrifying Mercy of God

By Adam Minihan | October 1, 2014

Christ died for sinners.  It sounds like a truism until some damn fool Christian takes it seriously and goes to Nuremburg to minister to and comfort Nazis. It is profoundly sobering to reflect on the fact that Hans Frank, the Gauleiter of Poland and a murderer of more than three million human beings was baptized in prison…

Two Blind Sisters See for the First Time

By Adam Minihan | October 1, 2014

Wrenchingly beautiful:Best part: You can help it happen again many, many times by helping to provide 20 million blind children and adults with a simple, inexpensive surgery that takes as little as 15 minutes and costs a paltry $300!Want to be part of the miracle of giving sight to the blind like Jesus?Support 20/20/20.

Satan Pleads

By Adam Minihan | October 1, 2014

I’ll do you one better, Old Scratch. I won’t bring anyone to this movie.  (Though I do eagerly await the Rifftrax version.)