What a skank. A Saudi Arabian court has sentenced a 75-year-old Syrian woman to 40 lashes, four months imprisonment and deportation from the kingdom for having two unrelated men in her house, according to local media reports. According to the Saudi daily newspaper Al-Watan, troubles for the woman, K...

The Readings for Mass for the Saturday in the First Week of Lent have a theme that essentially states that following the law of the Lord (keeping His commandments and doing His will) brings happiness. I will just post a link to all three readings instead of copying-and-pasting them here: Readings fo...

What do you embrace or eschew for Lent? One look at me would tell you that I am in no position to lecture anyone on the joys of asceticism, or the rewards of deprivation.I never saw a tasty morsel I did not like, nor an exercise regimen I did.I am lazy, undisciplined and seduced by comfort.An aching...

Master, bless. My most precious ones, this morning Father John came for the annual house blessing... Then we chatted whilst he nibbled on a plate of cookies. I am so blessed to know a man like him. He saw a photocopy of the cover of a light burden on my desk and very much liked what I had done; he a...

On the evening of that first day of the week, when the doors were locked, where the disciples were, for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in their midst and said to them, "Peace be with you." When he had said this, he showed them his hands and his side. The disciples rejoiced when they saw the ...

My Secular Franciscan Fraternity held its annual "Extraction of Saints" on Friday evening. This is a beautiful custom and we just love participating in it. In fact, we have members who have moved out of state, as well as the Sisters who no longer minister in our parish, asking to remain included in ...

Yesterday, my friend Jeffrey KALMIKOFF (I learned if you fuck that up, he will cut you) wrote a post entitled Seven Sins of Success. In it, he talked about all the things he felt contributed to his success in life and helping grow skinnyCorp. The concept of success is always intriguing to me, becaus...

My Fault, My Fault, My Most Grievous Fault I think my most grievous vault.... hmm, but since it is mine, can that possibly be an objective, a correct assessment? And it's got competition, there's my laziness, my careless ways with... "details" of the truth.Nonetheless, I think my worst trait is my s...

Following my comments on homsexuality, it is worth noting that the same principles (understanding God's purpose for sexuality and doing that through the teaching of the Church) apply mutatis mutandis to heterosexuals. Thus contraception is disordered, sex outside marriage is disordered, masturbation...

I remember seeing an animated short many years ago, of an episode from Woolf's Orlando long before I had heard of the actual book from which it was taken, about a wintry winter colder than all other winters, and it feels as if i am living through that now.(I wondered at the time, and again years lat...