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January 2019

January 20, 2019

Sorting Out the Covington Narratives

Fr. James Martin does a pretty reasonable job of picking over the emerging narratives: Re...

January 19, 2019

Well done, Gillette!

Of course, the backlash, led by such Christianist Court prophets as Matt Walsh, is massively...

January 18, 2019

Stephen Lewis replies to the Voris Mob

He writes over at First Things: Last week, a controversy erupted over a book I...

January 18, 2019

Advice to Dems: Fight Smarter

I regard the GOP Cult of Trump as the gravest domestic threat the US has...

January 17, 2019

Vigano Distracts–Again

Archbishop Viganò congratulates Cardinal McCarrick of Washington at a gala dinner sponsored by the...

January 16, 2019

Repeating myself for the umpteenth time since I still seem to be a mystery to many readers

There is no prolife party. There is the party that is 100% responsible for the...

January 15, 2019

Today’s phony Christianist “prolife” Panic du Jour

G.K. Chesterton once remarked that the task of the yellow journalist is to shout "ADMIRAL...

January 14, 2019

Franciscan University Hands Over Control to Church Militant

So a year or so ago, Dr. Stephen Lewis, who was, until this past Friday,...

January 12, 2019

Something to Amaze You on a Saturday

January 11, 2019

Rebecca Hamilton is an American Patriot and Therefore Cannot Be Silent

Here is a guest column she asked me to run. I do so with pride:...

January 10, 2019

The Real Death Panel Party

As has now become obvious, the standard strategy of the GOP Christianist Cult of Trump...

January 08, 2019

The response to Fr. McCloskey illustrates the failure of the conservative Catholic approach…

...to the sexual abuse crisis. For a brief moment this past summer things began to...

January 08, 2019

Media are betraying the public trust by covering Trump’s lying propaganda speech tonight

There is no crisis at the border and no need for wasting $5 billion on...

January 07, 2019

Fr. Frank Pavone, Apostle of the Living Trump

The central flaw of the American conservative Christianist "prolife" movement is that it has managed...

January 03, 2019

Happy Birthday, Professor Tolkien!

I offer a rousing toast and a deeply grateful word of thanks for your evangelization...

January 02, 2019

Interesting attempt to figure out the nothingness at the heart of fascism

Paul speaks of the "mystery of evil". And Augustine remarks that when a creature sins...

January 01, 2019

Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God and the Circumcision in the Temple

I like to meditate on the Presentation (when Mary and Joseph took the baby Jesus...

December 2018

December 29, 2018

Responding to Common Skeptical Commentary about the Infancy Narratives

Every Christmas there is a ritual kabuki that Catholics who take the New Testament seriously...

December 27, 2018

Yes. The Holy Family were Refugees

Before Trump's election, Republican Court Prophets like John Zmirak helped to stampede conservative Catholics with...

December 26, 2018

A Sonnet for Christmas

by Yr. Obdt. Svt., over at the Catholic Weekly.

December 25, 2018

The House of Christmas by G.K. Chesterton

There fared a mother driven forth Out of an inn to roam; In the place...

December 24, 2018

The Best Man and the Least

The last in my series on John the Baptist for The Catholic Weekly: John the...

December 20, 2018

Since it’s that time of year again…

Here's an old perennial that responds to another old perennial of the season, the "Everybody...

December 19, 2018

It’s not a secret that I admire Bp. Robert Barron

I'm strongly motivated by the Church's call to evangelize. I think Pope Francis is the...

December 18, 2018

How Cults Function

As the walls close in on Trump, his Foundation is subjected to the corporate death...

December 17, 2018

The Doubts of John the Baptist

The third in my four-part series on John the Baptist for Advent: Back in my...

December 14, 2018

The Rest of the Gun Cult’s Victims

As you read this, Sandy Hook Elementary has been evacuated following a bomb threat on...

December 13, 2018

Meme Lisa Simpson is Right and Eupocrisy is Real, Thank God.

Today I ran across a little meme starring Lisa Simpson declaring, "If you claim that...

December 12, 2018

Something fun for you

Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer in 9th Century Chant:

December 11, 2018

Yep. It is vital to understand that Trump is a Cult Leader

...and his movement is a Cult, far closer to a religious or messianic movement than...

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