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September 2019

September 24, 2019

How to deploy the unborn as human shields for the cruelty you love

From an actual and utterly typical conversation between a Whole Life Catholic and a a...

September 23, 2019

Fun with Readers’ Names

I have many readers about whom I know nothing except their names, and I sometimes...

September 21, 2019

A Sonnet for Summer’s Ending

I love this time of swan song summer days when autumn is not quite here...

September 20, 2019

If Isaiah were writing today

Hear the word of the LORD, you rulers of Sodom! Give ear to the teaching...

September 19, 2019

Precious Heritage vs. Just Get Over It

When the subject is Confederate statuary, the Christianist goes all drippy and sobby over the...

September 18, 2019

Urgent Prayer Request

A reader writes: 6.5-month-old Isaac is going in for surgery tomorrow or very shortly thereafter...

September 18, 2019

Virtue Signalling

There are certain catch-phrases that wind up getting overused and become meaningless insults. "Politically correct"...

September 17, 2019

I have a lot of respect for Fr. Matthew Schneider, LC

He is a priest unafraid to be open about his autism and who calls us...

September 16, 2019

Reader DoughnutGuy Gets It

He writes: It strikes me as rather odd that so many Catholics take the position...

September 14, 2019

What a time to be alive!

Some fun for you on a Saturday morning!

September 13, 2019

My friend Michelle Arnold writes a beautiful memorial…

...as the anti-semitic Freak Show disgraces American conservative Christianity in so many places: Nearly a...

September 12, 2019

Francis and the Schismatic Wannabes

Recently, Michael Sean Winters warned that the Francis-haters want schism: Last week, a friend called...

September 11, 2019

A Prayer for 9/11

Father, grant eternal life to all the victims of 9/11, living and dead. Give us...

September 11, 2019

If Trump Were an Airline Pilot

Back in 2016, the Right Wing Lie Machine published a famous essay ginning up hysteria...

September 10, 2019

A chance to do a work of mercy

Fausta Nalubega writes from Uganda: Dear friends of Mercy For Life Africa ministries, we are...

September 10, 2019

Cdl. Burke Dissents from the Church’s Teaching

Mike Lewis, over at Where Peter Is, writes: Recent remarks by Cardinal Raymond Leo Burke,...

September 09, 2019

Please help save Olivia’s leg

My friend Fausta Nalubega writes from Uganda: Olivia’s surgery will cost 766$, she will be...

September 09, 2019

The Silence of the “Prolife” Cult of Trump on Euthanasia

Back in the day, we were instructed that among the Five Non-Negotiables was Euthanasia. Of...

September 07, 2019

These EONS thingies are fun!

So here's another one to amuse and edumicate you for a Saturday morning. Also nice...

September 06, 2019

The Cult Where Accusation is Always Confession

One of the most notable (and diabolical) features of the Cult of Trump is it's...

September 05, 2019

Listen to the Magisterium, Not Quack Visionaries

Catholic culture is like tofu: It takes on the flavor of the culture around it. ...

September 04, 2019

It’s not just anti-semitism that has infected conservative Catholicism

Here's an oldie but a goody: I thought of that cartoon as the man who...

September 03, 2019

Marshalling the Forces of White Supremacy and Anti-Semitism

The Catholic tradition teaches that concupiscence "darkens the intellect" or, as I like to say,...

September 02, 2019

It’s the Last Episode of Catholic and Enjoying It Live! tonight!

Catholic and Enjoying It is on the air live at 7 PM Pacific (10 PM...

September 02, 2019

In Heaven It is Always Autumn

Lots of people reckon Autumn to start on the Autumnal Equinox on September 23. I...

August 2019

August 31, 2019

This could either be good or dreadful

Drama is about conflict and so my fear is that the screenwriter will invent a...

August 30, 2019

The Empire Strikes Back at Dawn Eden Goldstein

When last we left Dawn, she was challenging the principalities and powers behind the publication...

August 29, 2019

The Adventures of Dawn Eden Goldstein, Part 2

In which my heroic friend takes on some very powerful figures in the Right Wing...

August 28, 2019

The Adventures of Dawn Eden Goldstein, Part 1

I love Dawn. She is smart. She is well-educated. She is devoted to Jesus Christ...

August 27, 2019

On the Legacy of David Koch

One of the weird things about the Christianist Freak Show is that you can display...

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