In case you need to hear it again. Mitt Romney will not raise taxes on the middle class, will not increase the deficit, will create 12,000,000 new jobs in the first three months, will protect small businesses, and will save Medicare and Social Security as we know it, while giving… Read full post »

If you're paying attention, the Pope is sending a lifeboat to Tiber-crossing Anglicans on a homeward journey after half a millennium of "exile" in their own country.

Having been offered a special corner in the Latin Church called the “ordinariate,” conservative (who like… Read full post »

Something  awful happened between yesterday and today--more precisely between the start of the Ed Show and the end of Morning Joe.

Since 2008 I have  developed personal relationships of the most dependent kind with Chris, Keith, Rachel--more recently with Laurence (who is always L… Read full post »

Being good is not the same as being ethical ,or virtuous, or doing good, or even leading a good life.

 

Let me begin with two stories. The first comes from Voltaire, who is reported to have said to his mistress, Marguerite, “Whatever you do, don’t tell the… Read full post »

"Come closer," he said, beckoning his daughter to the table.

"Do you know what this is?" He sounded as if he was asking her to recite a prayer.

"Yes," she said.  "It's a pocket pistol.  It takes .25 acp's."

"It's loaded,"  he said.  "It's been loaded since the… Read full post »

And the angel said unto Marcia (nee Manger, no kidding):

 "Hail, oh pregnant one who at three weeks doesn't suspect a thing: the Lord is with you. 

"We looked for someone named Miriam and a guy named Joseph, but Henry and you will have to do.  Anyway,… Read full post »

In 1960 everyone able to vote in my Catholic family voted for JFK because Catholics (like most Jews and African Americans) were Democrats.  Catholics believed in the Trinity, going to confession, the rosary, and the special license of nuns to inflict bodily damage on adoles… Read full post »