It's been a busy couple of days. The other day we re-shot scenes on the roof of the house (a very tall house with a very very long plummet from eave to brick garden pathway. Joey was happy with what we got and it went in the Macbook I am typing this on. So that's finished. By the way, one fun thing ...

Yesterday, mostly consisted of techie stuff as the DOP and director talked about how to shoot and download everything on to computers, as well as sound and all that stuff. I had little to do besides memorize dialogue for the next few days of shooting, which I did. The main difference between Innocen...

just in case you are looking for an outlet for your Lenten almsgiving. A reader writes: A dear college friend of mine, Emily, became a missionary down in Comayagua,Honduras with the Missioners of Christ after graduating college last year. Recently the Franciscan Friars of the Renewal have provided h...

Yesterday, you got to hear discussions of everything from soup to nuts. Today, you get to ponder political lunatics, discuss some of the Sorrowful Mysteries, drive a seaweedmobile, and track the centrifugal trajectories of Episcopal and Catholic apostates. And, of course, there's the convivial atmos...

...is because this (uttered in 2005) is still Received Conservative Wisdom: Where would the world be if Americans did not live out their proclivity to consume everything that looks good, feels good, sounds good, tastes good? We provide a service for the rest of the world. If we were running a curren...

I thought I might post this little taste of Volume III: Miracles, Devotion, and Motherhood from Mary, Mother of the Son . This is from the chapter on the Holy Rosary: The Agony in the Garden Another title sometimes used to honor Mary is "Co-Redemptrix". It's not an "official title". It's just an exp...

Tomorrow begins the March Madness at Chez Shea. I head off to Walla Walla, WA, home of the ACME Birdseed Company as well as all the other fine ACME products that have served Wile E. Coyote so well. It is also the inspiration for this fine Walt Kelly poem: Deck us all with Boston Charlie,Walla Walla,...

Remarking on yesterday's post about the Catholic Chaplain who wrote the filthy bit of pro-choice agitprop for "Faithful Democrats", a reader remarks: During my Mom's final illness, in a non-Catholic hospital, a very kind and compassionate Pakistani Muslim physician worked with us, patiently explaini...

The more you assert something obviously in diametric opposition to both the letter and spirit of Scripture, the more certain you are to hail yourself as highly intelligent and the person allied with the normal reading of Scripture as "ignorant, pathetic, and simplistic". So, for instance, if you dec...

Derbyshire applies one of the first scalpels on the corpse where it is badly needed: on the weird and desperate substitution millions of American conservatives have made in replacing serious thought with talk radio chatter: Did the Limbaughs, Hannitys, Savages, and Ingrahams lead us to this sorry st...