On Thursday evening (12/18), I was allowed to bring Nick home from the hospital. I thought that the miracle I had prayed for had come true, for Nick to be home in time for Christmas. We pulled into our driveway, and as we were transferring Nick from the car to his wheelchair with [...]

If you’ve been paying any attention at all to the so-called “Religion of Peace” you should have seen this coming:
Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) could be replaced by “Mecca Time,” if a group of Muslim leaders get their way.
At the conference, “Mecca, the Center of the Earth, Theory and Practice,” Muslim scientists and clerics called for [...]

According to this jerk, only Muslims are innocent:
A report posted on Islam Watch, a site run by Muslims who oppose intolerant teachings and hatred for unbelievers, exposes a prominent Islamic cleric and lawyer who support extreme punishment for non-Muslims — including killing and rape.
A question-and-answer session with Imam Abdul Makin in an East London mosque [...]

It seems that the only religion you can be intolerant of today is Christianity:
A HOSPITAL porter was “devastated” last night after he was sacked following a row with a Muslim doctor over a crucifix.
Joseph Protano, a devout Roman Catholic, was a regular visitor to a prayer room open to all faiths at Royal Manchester Children’s [...]

Seems that a kerfuffle has broken out over a gesture made by Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia in response to a reporter’s question:
Smith was working as a freelance photographer for the Boston archdiocese’s weekly newspaper at a special Mass for lawyers Sunday when a Herald reporter asked the justice how he responds to critics who [...]

3 teenagers who set fire to several Baptist Churches were arrested on Wednesday. Their explanation was that it was a “joke that got out of hand.”
The arson attacks apparently began when the three got into Cloyd’s sport utility vehicle for a night of deer shooting in Bibb County on Feb. 2, according to Walker Johnson, [...]

Islamofasicts and Cartoons: Looks like Muslims around the globe are upset over some depictions of Muhammad in cartoons published in a Danish newspaper. Now Denmark is subject to a Muslim boycott and Muslims around the world are threatening to kill, behead, or otherwise terminate Danish citizens where ever they may be. They’re doing this, by [...]

I saw this story and just could not believe it was true:
To pray — or not to pray — in Jesus’ name is the question plaguing an increasing number of U.S. military chaplains, one of whom began a multiday hunger strike outside the White House yesterday.
“I am a Navy chaplain being fired because I pray [...]

Everyone’s favorite atheist, Michael Newdow, says he is going to file another lawsuit:
SACRAMENTO, Calif. The atheist who’s spent years trying to ban recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance in public schools says he’ll file a new lawsuit this week.
Michael Newdow says he’ll ask a federal court to order removal of the national motto “In God [...]

The rioting in France has spread to over 300 towns:
Rioting by French youths spread to 300 towns overnight, and a 61-year- old man hurt in the violence died of his wounds, the first fatality in 11 days of unrest that has shocked the country, police said Monday.
After sundown, rioters in the southern French city of [...]

The Church of Scientology has told a parody web site to change it’s domain name or else.
Some things just aren’t funny — at least to the Church of Scientology.
A New Zealand-based website that says it is devoted to “exposing Tom Cruise’s moronic behavior in his relentless crusade to promote the Church of Scientology” has been [...]

In a statement which must have literally destroyed the good ship Irony, Madonna is now blaming the “material world” for most of civilization’s ills:
The former Material Girl now believes “the beast is the modern world that we live in!”
“The material world. The physical world. The world of illusion, that we think is real. We live [...]

Yet another example of why no one likes the French:
PARIS: France’s media council has sharply reprimanded a private television channel for satirising Pope Benedict as “Adolf II” and saying he blessed Catholics “in the name of the Father, the Son and the Third Reich.”
The Superior Audiovisual Council (CSA) warned Canal Plus that it faced stiff [...]

Peggy Noonan has written an excellent piece regarding Pope John Paul II’s return to Poland after being elected Pontiff. Here is a sample:
John Paul was a new pope, raised to the papacy just eight months before. The day after he became pope he made it clear he would like to return as pope to his [...]

A long time ago, my parents raised me as a Catholic. I went to CCD classes, received my first communion, and eventually was confirmed. I got the lectures about not eating meat on Fridays and giving up something I really liked for lent. As a child, I just thought that these were things that everyone [...]