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September 2015

September 20, 2015

The Blood of St. Januarius Boils Over Every September

Catholicism is a strange religion, perhaps the most worldly of them all, if you...

September 09, 2015

Florida Man Wants You to Buy a Christian Assault Rifle

The state of Florida attracts the most interesting criminal activity that there are now tumblr,...

August 2015

August 12, 2015

Pope Francis Gets Boost from Leading Cultural Marxist Publisher!

If you're one of those people who wastes time railing against entities belonging to a...

July 2015

July 30, 2015

The Subjectivism of Ancient and Medieval Philosophy

Yesterday we placed the ancient philosophical analogue, not to be confused with an "equivalent," of...

July 23, 2015

On a Middle Class Pilgrimage

Kevin L. Hughes is Chair of the Humanities Department at Villanova University. He is the...

July 17, 2015

Capitalists Should Be Nervous: A Response to Fr. Robert Barron on Laudato Si’

Keith Michael Estrada is the founder of Students for a Fair Society at Franciscan University...

July 13, 2015

St. Paul & Pope Francis Say SHIT to Their Congregations

Pope Francis has been talking crap about capitalism again. According to The Guardian, the pontiff...

July 08, 2015

NO JOKE: Pope Francis to be Tried by Re-Established Sanhedrin!

I found the weirdest piece of news on my day off from my new temp...

July 03, 2015

Francis’s Integral Ecology: A Bonaventuran Methadone For Our Technocratic Addictions

Kevin L. Hughes is Chair of the Humanities Department at Villanova University. He is the...

June 2015

June 23, 2015

Conservatives (Not Liberals) Planted American Catholic Dissent

“I love clichés and hackneyed expressions of every kind because they’re largely true,” says Violet...

June 21, 2015

A Catholic Worker Approach to Laudato Si’: Repent! Understand! Pray!

Bob Waldrop is the founder of the Oscar Romero Catholic Worker House in Oklahoma City....

June 20, 2015

The Fatal Errors of Capitalism: Laudato Si’ & the Economy

Keith Michael Estrada is the founder of Students for a Fair Society at Franciscan University...

June 19, 2015

The Most Sophiological Encyclical of All: Michael Martin on Laudato Si’

MICHAEL MARTIN is Assistant Professor of English and Philosophy at Marygrove College. He is the...

June 18, 2015

The Official Edition of Laudato Si’ is Now Available

The final and official edition of Laudato Si' is now available online through the Vatican...

June 17, 2015

Playing Mad Libs with Laudato Si’ & the Politics of Identity

What if you took recent articles and replaced some words as you would in Mad...

June 16, 2015

Previewing Laudato Si’: Anthony Annett on Integral Ecology

Anthony Annett is a climate change and sustainable development advisor at the Earth Institute (Columbia...

June 15, 2015

Draft of Pope Francis’ /Laudato Si/ Encyclical Leaked Today

I once made a joke of using Benedict XVI quotes as leaked pieces of the...

May 2015

May 21, 2015

Francis, Break My Church Like the Eucharist

Ross Douthat specializes in writing very, very, very long pieces recycling the old secular-sociological theory that...

March 2015

March 16, 2015

2nd Year Summary: 3 Things I Love (& 1 Not So Much) About the Francis Papacy

Anniversaries are traditionally reserved for tallying gains and losses. It's hard to believe...

January 2015

January 03, 2015

BREAKING — Pope Says We Are All Responsible for Climate Change

In a leaked draft of the forthcoming encyclical on the environment the pope says: Preservation...

October 2014

October 30, 2014

Doubt Douthat’s Donatist Precipice

Ross Douthat's "The Pope and Precipice" has received plenty of attention of late. Rod Dreher...

October 08, 2014

Synod14: The Church Needs to Replace the Family

When grandiose Church events such as the Synod on the Family roll around I look...

August 2014

August 20, 2014

Tolkien’s Smaug of Money: Class Conflict in a Children’s Classic

My resistance to the Inklings is strong, but breaking down. Two causes stand behind my...

July 2014

July 12, 2014

Papal World Cup Final 2014: Argentina is on God’s Side #QED

Above are the Catholic numbers for this 2014 World Cup Final. What can we learn...

April 2014

April 28, 2014

No More Throne and Altar: St. JP2 on Inequality is the Root of Social Evil

Pope Francis caused a storm of controversy with the tweet, "Inequality is the root of social...

April 17, 2014

Catholiclandia: Solidarity Means Carrying One Another's Burden

Maundy Thursday usually has people twittering about whose carefully cultivated stinky feet will get...

February 2014

February 26, 2014

Quick Catholic Ch-Ch-Ch Changes: Pope Francis Does a Phil Jenkins

It seems that the changes in the Catholic Church under Pope Francis are proving Philip...

February 08, 2014

Hans Küng's Catholic Church Abuses

It's clear that it's always raining in Tübingen. NEWSFLASH: Hans Küng abuses his teaching authority...

January 2014

January 28, 2014

Goodbye Cosmos! Francis the Silenus Speaks in Parables

Pope Francis and I would like to thank you for your enthusiasm and support for...

January 08, 2014

Apart from… What has Illiberal Catholicism Done for Us?

The John Zmirak piece about "Illiberal Catholicism" has proven to be a great catalyst for...