RICH P. writes:

I am considering proposing marriage to my girlfriend of two years. She is sweet and kind, especially to children and the elderly. She remained faithful to me through a deployment to Iraq. She sought confirmation as a Catholic, expressing that if we were to begin a family, unity of faith would be absolutely essential. Her faith before the Sacrament is an inspiration to me. Previously our relationship had been intimate but for the last six months she’s quit birth control and we have (thankfully) recovered a commitment to chastity. Read More »

THOMAS F. BERTONNEAU writes:

I want to tell you about an amazing new dinner product from the American food industry, Higgs Boson Helper. When added to absolutely nothing and placed in a casserole dish, Higgs Boson Helper immediately adds mass to your main course. It’s microwaveable and comes in four savory flavors: Muon, Gluon, Meson, and Quark. As Scarlet O’Hara said, “I’ll never be hungry again!”

A BELATED comment has been added to the recent thread on men’s rights. Jesse Powell responds to a reader who defends the idea of a Christian men’s rights movement. Mr. Powell writes:

Is the very idea of a “Christian MRA” an oxymoron? I tend to think so. It’s like being a Christian narcissist. Is there any such thing as a Christian narcissist? Somehow I’m thinking that narcissism doesn’t mix with “obeying God” very easily. Read More »

THE REV. JAMES JACKSON writes:

After dinner with some parishioners, we were tossing oxymorons back and forth, and I heard some good ones; athletic scholarship, Victoria’s Secret, Facebook Friends and some others, but the one I had to pass along to you was … gourmet pizza.

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JEFF W. writes:

Presidents in earlier photos looked like men who were ready to deny themselves and bear their responsibilities each day. Modern presidents look more like they are trying to prove that they are happy. This is because socialism puts happiness at the top of its value scale.

The reason for taking money away from those that have too much and giving it to those who have too little is so that there will be greater happiness. The reason for government regulating and controlling everything is so that everyone will be shielded from events or conditions that may cause unhappiness.  Read More »

MATT writes:

I enjoyed the comments in the “Tolerance, without Discernment, Is Not a Virtue” thread. It made me think of something Hutton Gibson (Mel’s father) said with regards to tolerance:

Tolerance is the last virtue of a depraved society.

It seems to me that when an immoral society has blatantly and proudly violated all the commandments, it insists upon one last virtue, tolerance, for its immorality.

GUILAIN writes:

In France, shortly after a president is elected, his official picture is taken. There is only one per president. It is hung in tens of thousands of official places all over the country (in mayors’ offices, for instance). I’ve picked the faces from those photos and put them together. It goes from Charles de Gaulle in 1958 to our time. As you can see none is smiling (Giscard d’Estaing let us see his front teeth but it cannot be compared with the near hilarity of some of your presidents). Read More »

JOSEPH writes:

It saddens me no end to read comments like the one in the previous post by Lawrence Auster, who said he would no longer celebrate Fourth of July because of the passage of Obamacare. I have great respect for Mr. Auster’s thinking but Independence Day has nothing – nada, zip – to do with the United States government as it would not be invented  in its present form for another nineteen years after 1776. Nineteen years! Read More »

KIDIST PAULOS ASRAT writes:

I’ve posted a rather serious article on my blog on the New York Macy’s Fourth of July fireworks. I found them incredible. They were truly spectacular.

I say in my post that it is a sign that America is truly great. It sounds trivial to gauge a country’s greatness by its firework displays, but I think only Americans can give us such a display. Read More »

JAMES M. writes:

During Confession, a priest recently said to me: “I think you are too hard on yourself. Your penance is to think about that.”

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ALISSA, who is nineteen, writes:

I’m starting to believe that liberalism is demonic. The sexual revolution has resulted in the normalization of two malaises: feminism and homosexuality. A lot of liberals shout “Homophobia!” and “You have to be insecure in your sexuality” or “You are secretly gay,” but the truth is that societies which tolerate homosexuality go to accepting it and then finally normalizing it on a grand scale. Read More »

HIgh Cliff, Coast of Maine; Winslow Homer; 1894

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SARAH SAMS writes:

Was it you or Lydia Sherman who suggested that women should spend their time and energy entertaining their own families? I know that I read it sometime last fall, because I took it to heart and began to plan and make every holiday or birthday extra special starting at Thanksgiving. Read More »

ALAN writes:

Lawrence Auster wrote about a game at Yankee Stadium four years ago:

“The very loud rock music played during the game made it a very unpleasant experience, not something I would want to repeat. They even play loud music during the innings, as well as between innings. It’s an assault on one’s senses and mind and simply destroys the experience and integrity of the game.” Read More »

SEE THE recent amazing comments by Chicago Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy on a black radio station. He says whites are to blame for black hostility toward the police and, indirectly, for the high black incarceration rate. He does not object when another person on the show says “the legal system is the new Jim Crowe system in America.”

IF YOU don’t know the answer, go to your local Papa John’s and reflect on its theological implications.

A reader below explains.

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