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April 2017

April 27, 2017

Post-Execution Church: Rise Up from the Electric Chair!

I read this recent New York Times interview with people who have witnessed an act...

February 2017

February 15, 2017

The Young Pope: The Second Coming of Brideshead Revisited?

In many ways, The Young Pope is the second coming of Brideshead Revisited. In the...

February 09, 2017

Lady Gaga: The Super Bowl’s Muse of Nationalist Catholicism

Catholicism isn't in decline in the United States. It is as loud and up-front as...

July 2016

July 04, 2016

Does America Have a Philosophical Soul?

My brother introduced me to the Old Crow Medicine Show perhaps a dozen years ago,...

June 2016

June 20, 2016

Fr. Z Wants to Make America Afghanistan

Mass will be followed by coffee, donuts, and AR-15 training this week. The oddest reaction...

May 2016

May 21, 2016

The Democratic Clown Bus Parks Alongside the GOP Clown Bus . . .

It was so much fun for the Democrats to ridicule the GOP "clown car" that...

May 04, 2016

Catholics4Trump: Donald Trump’s Presumptive Nomination is Good News for Catholics

The electorate these days is thinking apocalyptically. This presidential election cycle is too much even for the strongest...

April 2016

April 28, 2016

Watershed Vatican Conference Makes War on Just War

There is a solid rule about what you can expect about reporting on Catholicism: If it's making the...

April 21, 2016

Sex and Soulcraft: The Artist Formerly Known as Prince

Prince gave us the ultimate expression of spiritual eros in music. The genealogy of soul...

April 13, 2016

Postmodernist Lacan Proclaims the Triumph of the One, True, Catholic Religion

It is the right time to unveil this bombshell on the day when one of...

April 11, 2016

Pope Francis Quashes “Who am I to judge?” Speculation in Amoris Laetitia

The truncated statement, "Who am I to judge?," caused a lot of consternation among certain...

April 05, 2016

Uncanned Abortion Activism: New Wave Feminists Interviewed

Comprised of Destiny Herndon-De La Rosa and Kristen Walker Hatten, New Wave Feminists takes...

January 2016

January 27, 2016

Wheaton Professor Claims White Privilege & Sexism Are Behind Larycia Hawkins Controversy

Once in a while you run across something that truly amazes you and leaves you...

December 2015

December 27, 2015

How Is Sarah Silverman Right About Jesus Being Gender Fluid?

Even though Sarah Silverman is not a theologian, her trolling tweet about the gender fluidity...

December 22, 2015

5 Reasons Why the Jesuits are More Like the First Order than the Jedi Knights

I gave in to the merchandising juggernaut that is Star Wars VII on Saturday. There...

December 10, 2015

3 Ways Vatican’s ZooTV Exposes Modern Theology’s Weaknesses

The projections of animals and non-Catholic human-animals onto the facade of St. Peter's led to...

November 2015

November 23, 2015

Profiles in Courage for a Refugee Risk-Averse America

We can best memorialize the passing of John F. Kennedy by collecting and emulating contemporary...

November 10, 2015

4 Remedies for Fundamentalist vs. Atheist Starbucks Red Cup Wars

I hail from Seattle. Seattle is the America's capital city of coffee. I know my...