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March 2020

March 11, 2020

Prayer Wednesday : A reader struggles with scruples about Netflix

Prayer is about the conversation of the soul with God, and that often includes wrestling...

March 09, 2020

Almsgiving Monday: For those of you fascinated by super-duper theological Inside Baseball…

...here is a draft of my stab at explaining the Filioque Controversy to somebody who...

March 07, 2020

Bass Reeves, Badass of the Old West

So here's a fascinating guy for a Saturday morning:

March 06, 2020

Fasting Friday: Isaiah 58 and a Reader’s Lament

A reader (who is Catholic and staunchly opposed to abortion) describes the real and lasting...

March 04, 2020

Prayer Wednesday: Prophylactic vs. Prelude

It has become a truism that whenever pious hypocrites want to avoid actually doing something...

March 02, 2020

Almsgiving Monday: St. John Chrysostom: Komminniss

“I am often reproached for continually attacking the rich. Yes, because the rich are continually...

February 2020

February 29, 2020

More information on Ish Kabibble and his odd relationship with MAD Magazine than any normal person could want

... is just what this blog needs on a Saturday morning. Who or what is...

February 28, 2020

Dorothy Day, Post-Abortive Member of Communion of Saints

Over on the Book of Face I had a conversation with somebody about the Dorothy...

February 27, 2020

The Fields are White for Harvest

On March 6, godless, liberal, anti-Christian PBS, bent on the destruction of really truly true...

February 26, 2020

Ash Wednesday

I Because I do not hope to turn again Because I do not hope Because...

February 25, 2020

A Revolutionary Idea for Catholics: Try Listening to the Pope

Over at Where Peter Is, the always-reliably-sound D.W. Lafferty proposes an idea so shocking and...

February 24, 2020

A good conversation with a reader

He writes: Hey Mark, You may or may not remember me by my name, and...

February 22, 2020

John Oliver on Medicare for All

It is strange to live in a time where the best teachers of civics are...

February 21, 2020

Catholic Reactionaries and Jew Hatred are like Peas and Carrots

Go to a Reactionary Catholic site (typically billing itself as Traditionalist and usually spending a...

February 20, 2020

Yes, You Can Eat Halal Cooking

In a post a couple of months ago, Fr. Z tackles the question of whether...

February 19, 2020

The illusion of the conservative white American Christian majority

Just a reminder that MAGA Evangelicals, like the Greatest Catholics of All Time, are a...

February 18, 2020

Pseudo-Profundity from Fake Voltaire

One of the marks of the Right Wing Herd of Independent Thinkers is its lockstep...

February 17, 2020

In Honor of Presidents Day…

I give you Jonathan Coulton's Educational Song, "The Presidents": I was a weird kid. In...

February 15, 2020

In Honor of Valentine’s Day…

Here is the most awesome proposal in the history of Proposaldom:

February 14, 2020

Happy St. Valentines Day!

Remember: Every Himmler needs a Hermler.

February 13, 2020

Simcha Fisher reports on a bizarre and abusive children’s book

It's called The Seed Who Was Afraid to be Planted and is, by some crazy...

February 12, 2020

The Bilko Party

Back in 1996, Steve Martin did a remake of Sergeant Bilko, the great Phil Silvers...

February 11, 2020

Why Bad Theology Matters

There's an old joke. When Christianity came to Greece, it became a philosophy. When it...

February 10, 2020

The Weird Fundamentalist Catholic/Evangelical Alliance

A few days ago, we looked at the strange Reactionary Catholic sect TFP courtesy of...

February 08, 2020

I love these Pitch Meeting thingies

Something fun for a Saturday morning:

February 07, 2020

In Honor of A Good Man: Deacon Steven Greydanus

So a couple of years ago, Deacon Steven Greydanus did one of his Reel Faith...

February 06, 2020

The Massive Failure of the “Prolife” MAGA Cult

Here, as if paid to illustrate yesterday's post about the "Abortion is Our #1 Priority!"...

February 05, 2020

The “Abortion is Our Number One Priority” Shell Game

A reader writes: Mark....the Catholic Bishops have declared that abortion for us voters is the...

February 04, 2020

Nerding Out

So a few days ago, my wife sent me this. She got it from her...

February 03, 2020

David Mills on the Failure of Ideology

Over on the Book of Face, my friend David Mills offers some wise words: IDEOLOGICAL...

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