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November 2014

November 21, 2014

Why Liberals Love Francis

To believe that Francis is now suddenly maneuvering the Church into acceptance of homosexual "marriage"...

November 21, 2014

Francis Directs the Minister

A friend responds to my story about the Southern Baptist evangelist James Robison, High Fivin'...

October 2014

October 31, 2014

The Pope’s Loyal Critics

In contrast to the sour traditionalists I described yesterday in Traditionalists on Francis, Philip Lawler...

October 30, 2014

Traditionalists On Francis

Various widely-reading friends have sent me lots of links to traditionalist Catholic articles on Pope Francis, which...

October 28, 2014

Speaking as Children of Light

At his homily this morning at Santa Marta, Pope Francis, reports the CNA, "turned his reflection...

October 27, 2014

The Family is Being Bastardized

Part of his Machivellian scheme, said a friend, parodying certain Catholics who are convinced no...

October 24, 2014

Defend Him Against All Hazards: Newman on the Pope

"It is the rule of Christ's providence, that what His Vicar does in severity or...

October 23, 2014

Michael Voris Apologizes

This is surprising, and very cheering: Michael Voris apologizes for unintentionally seeming to attack the...

October 21, 2014

Pat Buchanan’s Dishonesty

Not unsurprisingly, Pat Buchanan has teed off on Pope Francis, and he has done so...

August 2014

August 11, 2014

A Great & Glorious, But Debated, Assumption

Catholics will be celebrating the Feast of the Assumption on Friday. Here, in case in the...

August 07, 2014

Chaput on Francis: Dignity Requires Solidarity

Archbishop Charles Chaput says it would be a mistake to call Francis a liberal or...

August 05, 2014

Bergoglio the Teacher

In last Friday's A Lesson for Creative People, I passed on a story about then...

August 04, 2014

Leo XIII and the Dirty Picture

Leo XIII favored snuff. Before he became pope, he had served for a time as...

August 01, 2014

A Lesson for Creative People

A useful lesson for writers, scholars, teachers, and anyone else doing some kind of creative work,...

July 2014

July 22, 2014

What Francis Is Up To

Francis is either foolish or cunning, is the basic division among Catholics bothered by things...

July 17, 2014

The Wise Masked Chicken Speaks on Francis

Vocal disappointment with and disapproval of Pope Francis is a line increasingly taken by conservative...

July 16, 2014

What Francis Said

A useful resource, giving quotes from Pope Francis on social and economic issues arranged by topic,...

June 2014

June 24, 2014

Saletan’s Cheap Shot

Yesterday in The Pope Till Death Do Us Part, Sometimes, I took minor issue with...

June 23, 2014

The Pope Till Death Do Us Part, Sometimes

Popes Should Resign More Often, declares fellow Patheos blogger Marc Barnes. Quoting Benedict's explanation of...