Michael Yon: As I consider this whole manufactured controversy about my intentions in saying, then and now, that Iraq is in a civil war, and whether or not I used the right definition, and even, ridiculous as it seems, whether I have been hijacked by forces that oppose this war, what strikes me as most… Continue reading

This made for a very Happy Easter: The Rev. Charles J. Murphy is returning to St. Francis Xavier Church in Weymouth now that the archdiocese has cleared him of sexual abuse charges. ‘‘It was a nightmare for him,’’ Boston attorney Timothy O’Neill, who represented the Rev. Murphy in a lawsuit, said yesterday. ‘‘He has had… Continue reading

What better way to commemorate Good Friday than by a new translation of the Anglo-Saxon poem, Dream of the Rood….

For those of you dreading you’ll have to read DaVinci Code before the over-hyped movie comes out (or even after), help is on the way! Rev. John Wauck humorously summarizes the plot—so you won’t have to.

Carl Zimmer discusses the latest flurry of PR from the Discovery Institute. Is it me, or is it strange that intelligent design advocates are telling biologists that they aren’t working hard enough, that they are not getting enough results from their lab work? Remember, this is the same Michael Behe whose sole peer-reviewed paper in… Continue reading