Pondering Orb

Pondering My Orb for 2024

As anyone who's extremely online knows, the most longstanding internet holiday tradition is web sites - in particular gaming magazines - posting annoying fake stories on April Fools' Day. But the second oldest internet holiday tradition is unqualified bloggers making baseless predictions about the year ahead at New Year's. It…
January 2, 202413 Comments
Benedict

Remembering Pope Benedict

As of last night, we passed our first year without the late Pope Emeritus Benedict. He had a short reign by modern standards, but he was among the most accomplished theologians ever elected to the papal throne – which is saying a lot. And like the best teachers of the…
January 1, 20241 Comment
Pizza Hut Classic 1

Generation Y’s Real Café 80s

Most people reading this will be familiar with the 50s retro diner, in concept if not by firsthand experience. This style of restaurant gained popularity in the 1980s as Baby Boomers neared middle age. Savvy restaurateurs figured out that appealing to that generation's nostalgia for the 1950s culture they dismantled…
December 29, 20236 Comments
Uncle Buck

Comedy Classics: Uncle Buck

Since we're in the Christmas season, I thought it fitting to give my regular readers a peek behind the VIP curtain. Please enjoy my previously Neopatron exclusive review of the John Hughes classic Uncle Buck. More than 30 years on, Uncle Buck retains its status as a John Hughes comedy classic. Besides…
December 28, 20233 Comments
FInding God

How to Prove God and Find Him

Helping others clear away intellectual obstacles to faith in God and His Church is every theologian's solemn obligation. As Fr. Chad Ripperger has said, Hell is so bad that we shouldn't even wish it on our worst enemy. So it is in a spirit of fraternal charity that I offer…
December 27, 20238 Comments
Strange Spirit

Discernment of Strange Spirits

A question pertaining to our previous tale of high strangeness comes from a user on X: Wouldn’t it be more likely, per the Church, that the “ghost” is a demon masquerading as the spirit of the officer? My answer:   Another user then chimed in to add this chilling personal…
December 26, 20234 Comments
Venite Adoremus

Venite Adoremus

Christ the Lord! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=af7qmTGuz5A Merry Christmas, everyone!
December 25, 2023
December 25 Christmas

In Defense of December 25th

Advent is back, so the Reddit atheists and pagan LARPers have returned to display their historical and biblical illiteracy. That means it’s time to repost this perennial favorite piece in defense of December 25th so my readers can demolish internet atheists’ cringe “Christmas is Pagan!” memes. December 25 really is…
December 22, 20233 Comments
Final Fantasy VII Test 0

FF7: The 1st Unfinished AAA Game?

One of the stranger zombie memes still circulating in this year of Our Lord 2023 - a time rife with zombie memes - lazily holds that video games are just toys and gaming a mere hobby. A quick look around the cultural landscape soon reveals that notion as reductive. Vdya…
December 21, 202323 Comments
Trump Disqualified

Court Disqualifies Trump for 2024

Colorado's Supreme Court dropped a bombshell ruling yesterday, declaring former President Donald Trump disqualified to appear on the state primary ballot. The decision held that the Civil War-era Disqualification Clause in the Fourteenth Amendment applies to Trump for taking part in an insurrection. Four of the seven justices said that…
December 20, 20237 Comments