What I say in this post about Ouija boards by way of anecdote is analogously applicable to fortune tellers of all sorts, those who work with cards, crystal balls, who are chiromancers, tea-leaf readers, or whatever. There are plenty of such people. In this post, I'm ...

In my younger days, I was a chaplain at the Hudson River Psychiatric Center, a more politically correct name than the one from which it was changed: The New York State Insane Asylum. I think this is where Rose Marie Kennedy (RIP) had her lobotomy done, ...

UPDATE: A reader emailed to mention the provenance of the healing of the family tree thing. A priest, along with the name of his book, was named, along with a lay evangelist. This may be it, since the revised edition of the book came out more ...

The Latin language was the vulgar language of Rome, used by scholar, orator, prostitute and the apocalyptic beast. The Roman Church wanted to use the common, vulgar language, making this the sacred language of the Church, that is, the language into which Scripture would be translated ...