Lionel Deimel’s Web Log

Watching the evening news on ABC, I was particularly struck by the story on rising oil prices. Democrats are concerned that high gas prices ...

There is a new site on the World Wide Web. The domain yestothecovenant.org was registered February 16, 2012, and there is now a Web site a...

In an earlier post , I indicated that a priest from within the Episcopal Diocese of Pittsburgh has been nominated for bishop by petition, an...

I have lately been singing in the Trinity Cathedral choir, taking a sabbatical from my own parish choir to help out at the diocesan cathedra...

Raping thousands of children is not enough for the Catholic Church; now bishops want to screw women employees as well.

Paying for birth control pills seems a small price to pay for raping thousands of children.

As I’m sure many readers know, dioceses of the Church of England—there are 44 of them—are voting on the Anglican Covenant . Only if a majori...

I was recently browsing the redesigned Episcopal Church Web site and decided to check if the information about my own parish was up-to-date....

In addition to the four candidates to become the next Bishop of Pittsburgh announced a few weeks ago by the Standing Committee—see “ Pittsbu...

Paul Krugman’s column in today’s New York Times includes this distressing observation: How did American conservatism end up so detached ...

It was with some trepidation that I awaited yesterday’s announcement from President Obama concerning the modification of his plan to require...

There is more and more talk in the news suggesting that Israel or the U.S. might—or even should—take military action against Iran in order t...

Doritos® Logo Did you watch the Doritos commercial in which a smart aleck dog has apparently killed a cat and bribes a husband with Dori...

A few days ago, I wrote a post about the  Anglican Mission in the Americas (AMiA). Since then, I was made aware of an interesting narrativ...

I came upon the graphic below on Facebook today and was instantly struck by its brilliance. The point of it is that people are not simply ei...

Trying valiantly to suppress schadenfreude, I have been following the stormy relationship of the Anglican Mission in the Americas and the P...

The Most Reverend William White On the Web site of Modern Church, Jonathan Clatworthy has recently posted a rebuttal to Peter Doll’s pr...