Blogworthies XVI Because The Blog from the Core simply can't cover everything. Noteworthy entries @ Belmont Club, Mere Comments, Catholic Analysis, Discriminations, Mere Comments (again), Cor ad cor loquitur, Dust....

Slippery Slope and Sodomite "Marriage" James Taranto has a good discussion of slippery-slope arguments, the federal constitution and courts, and the current marriage crisis, at Best of the Web Today,....

"Almost Beside the Point" Fr. Joseph Wilson writes at CruxNews yesterday: Long after his death, Father Leo Trese proved to be quite a conversation-stopper. I’m sure I haven’t thought of....

Johnny Got His Mind Straightened Democrats in Self-Destruct Mode CCCI An article at the New York Post yesterday (brackets in original). + + + + + Flip-flop-flip. Democrat John Kerry....

The Brightness of the Year II Allow me to quote The Blog from the Core of one year ago today: In one respect, the two months beginning today is my....

Complete VVAW FBI Files That would be Vietnam Veterans Against the War. The mother lode.

Medieval Wall Painting in the English Parish Church Here. (Via Robert.)

Catholics and Political Responsibility A compendium by Women for Faith & Family. Vide. (Thanks, Dom.)

Pelosi Calls Bush "Incompetent" Democrats in Self-Destruct Mode CCC That's three hundred. 300. My, how time flies. From the land of Sorensen and Morford. (Ellipses in original.) + + +....

The War. Going Badly. Going Badly? Going Badly! How on Earth did it come to this? So says Norman Rockwell. .... In July 1942, Norman Rockwell took the train [to]....

St. Joseph Church Centennial Twelve photos from my parish's one-hundredth anniversary celebration, May 1, 2004. I know you've been waiting for these. :-) Sanctuary (Ambo and Tabernacle) Before Mass Spencer....

Bishop Olmsted of Phoenix Making Enemies in Sodom San Francisco and Massachusetts Oh, and in Phoenix too, I'm sure. Here's the letter Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted sent to nine clergy....

"Hedonistic Self-Gratification As Right Conduct That Must Be Legitimized" The redoubtable Alan Keyes speaks in Boston, May 14 (brackets in original): .... We have these two different understandings of human....

"The Myth of the Flat Earth" "No one before the 1830s believed that medieval people thought that the earth was flat." Lege. (Thanks, Shawn.)

The Brutal Truth "If all men stood talking of their rights before they went up a mast or down a sewer or stoked a furnace or joined an army, we....

Thanks Nârwen.

"Now Pipe Down" Another recent column from Archbishop Charles Chaput: .... The Gospels were never meant to be a collection of reassuring, private pieties. They were written to change the....

Swiftees Call on John Kerry to Stop Using Photo in Campaign Democrats in Self-Destruct Mode CCXCIX A press release from Monday. + + + + + Today, Swift Boat Veterans....

"News Coverage as a Weapon" You've probably already seen it, but here's a monumental blog: .... The 800 odd US military deaths suffered since the start of Operation Iraqi Freedom....

"Unsolicited Testimony to the Rhode Island Legislature on Same-Sex Marriage" Lege.

Kerry-McCain in 2004? Democrats in Self-Destruct Mode CCXCVIII Why not just come right out and say how desperate they are? + + + + + Despite weeks of steadfast rejections....

"No Way to Run a War" A magisterial column by Mark Helprin at OpinionJournal yesterday: Though America has condemned the cruelties of Abu Ghraib, they remain nonetheless a symbol of....

"Rooting for the Enemy" A scorching philippic from John Podhoretz at NYP, May 14: .... No matter what happens in the war with Iraq, no matter what the evildoers do,....

When the Minority Still Rules Manuel Miranda writes at NRO, May 13: The May 13 edition of The Hill reports that there are again Senate rumblings about the so-called nuclear....

Bishops Aquila, Sheridan & Wenski Three recent statements from Catholic bishops on the responsibilities of Catholics in public life. A homily by Most Rev. Samuel J. Aquila, Bishop of Fargo,....

"Gay" "Marriage" Is An Abomination Men cannot marry men; women cannot marry women. Legality, especially that conferred by the slimmest majority of black-robed lawyers with delusions of grandeur, does not....

"An Outbreak of Blindness" Nice column by Colin McNickle at the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review today: There is nothing in words, it once was written — believe what is before your eyes.....

The Sixth Sunday of Easter Lege.

Three by Kilmer Three sonnets by Joyce Kilmer. In Memory I Serene and beautiful and very wise,    Most erudite in curious Grecian lore,    You lay and read your learned books,....