This video on wymen's ordination is making the rounds but Matthew and I, as a service to our beloved readers planned to scour the twitter machine and gather responses from major religious leaders to this unforgettable video. But Golden Corral had an all-you-can-eat shrimp from 12-1 so instead we just made them up to save time.

Here's the video and then below it you can see the twitter responses.

Have you heard about the brilliant comet that is to pass Earth toward the end of this year? They say it will be so bright in the sky, as bright as a full moon, that this is not only a once in a lifetime astronomical event, but a once in a civilization astronomical event.

What does it mean?

What do you mean Mr. Archbold, "what does it mean?" It means that a ball of ice and gas, warmed by the Sun, will reflect light toward earth. That's what it means, nothing else.  We do not look to the sky for warnings or prognostication, we are modern, civilized.

I suppose I agree with that. But...

As Christians, we  do believe that God has used astronomical events in this way before, most...READ MORE

This is just astoundingly beautiful. Great thanks to The New York Times for running this amazing video on this teacher and the great love he has for his disabled son. It's 12 minutes long so I know that for some of you that's something like 11 and a half minutes over your typical allowance for video. But please trust me that this is worth it.

Christmas is the season of unselfishness and love. But let's face it, there's plenty of folks who probably love Christmas for completely selfish reasons. Among them may just be:

Josh Groban. Let's face it. Precious few people want to hear from The Groban unless it's Christmas time and he's singing the only song that people want to hear from him. He's like a Christmas version of Michael Bolton but with bad hair. I don't think Groban's family is even all into seeing him unless it's Christmas time. But every year around this time the Groban becomes a celebrity again. He's like the groundhog. One time a year he's huge and then he crawls back into a hole in the ground somewhere.

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I want you to remember something in the coming weeks and months.  Sometimes good Catholics disagree.

How I wish there was more quiet time, more time to grieve, before political bloodletting followed upon actual bloodletting.  We no longer have room or time to breathe.  We gasp and then we yell.  At least that is what it seems like.

But we were not granted the time.  Most of those beautiful children in Newtown have yet to be laid to rest, but the big headlines are already political and the side stories are of lives lost.  Within days, we won't even have the side stories anymore.  People often bemoan the coarsening of our politics.  I don't know how it can be coarser than this.

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“Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.”

1996 - When Charles Carl Roberts IV hung up on the police dispatcher, the police negotiator outside the Amish schoolhouse frantically redialed Roberts’ cell phone number but could not get through. Roberts, likely feeling that the police were coming at any moment, readied himself to begin shooting the girls.

That was when it happened — a miracle. Not the kind that changed one thing in that schoolhouse, but one that affected the millions of us outside the school house. 13-year-old Marian Fisher raised her voice. “Shoot me first and leave the other ones loose,” she reportedly said.

Her 11-year-old...READ MORE

Have you heard of the Butterfly Effect?

In a nutshell, the butterfly effect is the far off, unpredictable, and possibly dramatic consequences of a seemingly small act.

It is called the butterfly effect because the concept is often illustrated with the saying along the lines of "a butterfly flaps its wings in China and a tornado occurs in Texas."

So the obvious solution to this problem is to kill all the butterflies. 

If this seems a ridiculous solution to such a problem, I will agree with you.

But the notion that all butterflies must die seems to be the solution promoted by the media in reaction to the hospital prank perpetrated by two Australian DJ's.  I am frankly shocked and...READ MORE

Just once:

I'd like to see a movie where a girl chooses the corporate lawyer who's a nice guy over the environmental activist who's pretty much a jerk.

I'd like to hear the government say, "hey this program doesn't really work. Let's cut it."

I'd like to hear a teenager tell a parent they were completely right about something. Anything.

I want to hear my dentist admit, "Yeah, this is probably going to hurt quite a bit."

I'd like to see a hybrid with an NRA bumper sticker.

I'd like to see a movie critic admit that yeah Adam Sandler is kinda' funny.

I'd like to see an advertisement for a "Glee" episode that wasn't a very special episode.

I'd like to paint the walls in the...READ MORE