The holiday — I mean Christmas — season is once again upon us and as has become every bit as much a holiday tradition as decorated trees or eggnog, the aggressive secularists are out in force to degrade the sacred season with all the non-religious fervor they can muster. Some call it the “War on…

Former British Prime Minister, and relatively recent convert to Catholicism,  Tony Blair debated writer Christopher Hitchens (God Is Not Great) over the weekend.  The topic? Whether religion is a force for good in the world? Video. Transcript. It doesn’t take a mystic to guess who was representing which side of the question — and, if…

GA_googleFillSlot(“954x60_primary”); For the record, I’ve never quite gotten the conflict between creationism and evolution. Why couldn’t God have used evolution as part of his creation plan? But aside from that whole argument, The Onion News Network came up with an amusing question. Not about how to teach kids about the beginning of life on Earth…

Credit reader Chris Vaughen for recalling two shows featuring priests in prominent roles that I missed in my recent list. Chris’ edition include Have Faith, a half-hour sitcom which which aired on ABC starred Joel Higgins (Silver Spoons), Ron Carey (Barney Miller) and Stephen Furst way back in 1989. Also, and how could I have…

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