Lunch Break

In light of all the recent goofiness in the Anglican Church , it was with wry glee that I was able to position this sign-holding voluntee...

'Time' Publishes Definitive Obama Puff Piece According to the Time reporter, work on the profile was often harder than he had antici...

I was going to try to say something new and insightful about Humanae Vitae , the 40th anniversary of which we commemorate today. But I'...

I just posted this on the Catholic Dads Blog : I was very happy to see an article in today's Chicago Tribune —on the front page, no les...

There's a humdinger of a piece of investigative reportage in Sunday's Chicago Tribune about a whole bunch of $20,000 grants sponso...

From Stuff White People Like : Being a truly advanced white person means being able to speak with authority about pretty much any field of c...

I've been spending the morning and expect to spend the rest of the day slogging through emails, but for now I just wanted to say that ou...

I won't be blogging tomorrow or all next week, as I'll be helping to coordinate the Chicago Area Face the Truth Tour, sponsored by m...

Somehow I missed this article when it first came out in January. I just found it this morning linked to the latest email from Planned Paren...

From the creators of "Teen Girl Squad" , behold Baloney Man . I'm not sure I entirely get it, but then again, I'm not sure...

Check out this eye-opening interview of Planned Parenthood founder (and Barack Obama's heroine ) Margaret Sanger conducted by Mike Wall...

Case in point #5625109812352: Via Wikipedia, a comprehensive list of problems solved by MacGyver . (Although I have to admit, this is kind o...

For the past several weeks, construction crews have been tearing up and subsequently repaving the street in front of Haus Jansen. The upsho...

This observer at Chicago Indymedia and I can at least agree on one thing: Chicago isn't cut out to host the 2016 Olympics. Writing abou...

Those who favor banning books like Huck Finn must be gleeful at this news: Some bureaucrats at the Wilmette Park District are so aghast at...

"A Life Worth Living": When Harriet McBryde Johnson died earlier this month at the age of 50 from a congenital neuromuscular disea...

A new company in California is trying to become the first to gain federal approval to test an embryonic stem cell treatment in humans . And ...

I thought it worthwhile to highlight two closely related insights I came across yesterday on two blogs I read regularly. The first is from ...

I just posted this on the Catholic Dads Blog : Today, being the feast of St. Josemaria Escriva , I was prompted to recall what was likely th...

“Catholics agree about everything. It is only everything else they disagree about.” —G.K. Chesterton Ever since Expelled came out, I'v...