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July 2021

July 13, 2021

The bishop vs the president

My bishop is at it again. Thomas John Paprocki, bishop of the Diocese of Springfield...

January 2021

January 07, 2021

Blood cries out: the Confederate flag in the U.S. Capitol

Take a good, hard look at the photo that accompanies this article. That flag. Carried...

November 2020

November 21, 2020

Dale Ahlquist is on a mission – sadly, it’s the wrong mission

Joe Biden won. Donald Trump, who once mocked the president-elect as “sleepy Joe…hiding in his...

February 2020

February 12, 2020

Bishop Thomas John Paprocki

Meet Bishop Thomas John Paprocki, ordinary of the Diocese of Springfield in Illinois. He is...

January 2020

January 18, 2020

Donald Trump in one day

In the morning, I usually see some item about President Trump that looks like it...

August 2019

August 28, 2019

The deplorable state of Catholic journalism

What follows is neither an endorsement nor a condemnation of Planned Parenthood. That’s not the...

August 16, 2019

Gleams of light

Thursday night, Stephen Colbert sat down with CNN's Anderson Cooper for an hour-long discussion (it...

July 2019

July 13, 2019

Archbishop Chaput, I see you

I’ll give Philadelphia Archbishop Charles Chaput one thing: he knows how to cover his tracks....

April 2019

April 15, 2019

“Heaven and earth may pass away, but my words will not pass away.”

Jesus' words, from Matthew 24:35, were what first passed through my mind when I saw...

March 2019

March 18, 2019

The press vs the Presidency: old war, new battles

Robert Mueller’s investigation into Donald Trump’s campaign for president started as a snowball. It is...

March 01, 2019

Beware of unqualified people – UPDATED

Updated to add additional information I did not know existed when I published this -...

January 2019

January 20, 2019

MAGA at the March for Life — UPDATE

NB: I have updated this post because of new information available today. --SPD Want media...

November 2018

November 04, 2018

A hard life; a good life

The week of October 22, as I wrote here, one of President Trump’s supporters mailed...

October 2018

October 30, 2018

We must keep rising up

America: terror nation. After last week, the week of October 22, twenty-one months into the...

September 2018

September 10, 2018

A Nasty Bit of Backstabbing

Pope Francis and President Donald Trump do not have much in common, but one characteristic...

September 05, 2018

A constitutional crisis

I’d like to say a few words about Wednesday’s anonymous op-ed in the New York...

July 2018

July 23, 2018

Donald Trump: an update

If President Trump was hoping to divert attention from his policy of kidnapping and caging...