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I see in the New York Times an article about how atheists and agnostics are networking via E-mail and the Internet to feel more comfortable ...

- In the interest to myself to not take myself too seriously in some of these odious blog topics - a lighter note - a secular hymn if you wi...

One mans’s torture is another man’s pleasure??? There is a lot of vetting going on now in the media and the Congress about that torture thin...

Our Father, which art in heaven, hallowed be thy name; thy kingdom come; thy will be done, in earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our...

Lately, Dick Cheney is all over the place – hyperactive – and perhaps in fear that the truth if we discover it about the Bush Cheney years w...

Newsweek tried to imitate Time and its 1966 blockbuster cover “Is God Dead?” Newsweek is a pale reflection of that historic Time piece in t...

Perhaps Love... Annie's Song...

I don’t know if Federal Judge Jay Bybee should be handed over to an international War Crimes Tribunal or not. He is not Himmler. He is mor...

- I think that Mel Gibson is a great actor. He manages to get pulled over in his own neighborhood for drunk driving and then starts on a so...

I don’t know what to make of this story about Gary McKinnon. There is this fellow in Britain. He seems fairly articulate. He is diagnosed ...

I do not think that it is intellectual or moral backbone that has the Cardinal Newman Society, a once harmless national on-campus organizati...

I don’t know what to make of all the fake science that is trying to get endorsed or believed these days. Intelligent Design is supposed to...

It is Spring. It is Easter. There is promise of rebirth and renewal in the air. A story about St. Paul’s Chapel in downtown Manhattan caug...

There was a famous BBC documentary series with James Burke called “Connections”. It seemed to ramble all about and show how different histo...

I am someone who in an earlier article described myself and my Cultural Christianity as something conforming more to the primitive, pre-titl...

First RC rule of obedience: Don’t let the local bishop get into your pants – your pants pocket that is – the one with the deed to the church...

Shortly there after Adam and Eve, the trailer trash couple, recently evicted from Paradise Trailer Park, go on their way and struggle withou...

One of the menu items I think irrelevant as part of my 20% discounted smorgasbord Christianity is the concept of Original Sin. All primitive...

I had mentioned something in one of my previous posts about being of a same mind with some early nineteenth Unitarian beliefs. Not claiming...

For Pope Benedict XVI it is perhaps shame that has finally caused an action. This “sexual” abomination thing has gone on too long. The sham...

(excerpts from a journal...) ...in this day and age of maximum sexual exposure and sexual exploitation - the church sticks its nose i...

Someone sent me an article about a help center for priests in New Mexico in the 1950’s run by a religious order. The center had been started...

There is this nagging question at the back of my brain every time I read the NT. This thing about celibacy is a stated or a verbal contract...