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December 2019

December 10, 2019

Childlike Liberal Fool in the Vatican invents “eco-sins”

Well the liberal idiots in Rome are at it again: Thou shall not pollute the...

December 05, 2019

“Why Call It Progress?”

Over on Twitter, I've had a chance to chat a little bit with Austen Ivereigh,...

June 2017

June 06, 2017

When the Pope says we have a responsibility to care for creation

...and does the standard Catholic thing of making use of the best of human knowledge...

June 02, 2017

Have I changed my mind about climate change?

A reader writes: Hey, Mark, what happened to your former climate-change skepticism (or perhaps suspension...

June 01, 2017

Trump Flips Off Francis, Trumpian Catholics Cheer

American Right Wing Id Monster joins Nicaragua and Syria in rejecting Climate Accord--just for spite....

August 2015

August 20, 2015

Liberal Priest Equates Saying “You Fool!” with Abortion!!!!

Here are the damning words from his own mouth! You have heard that it was...

August 18, 2015

Laudato Si: Read the Whole Encyclical, Not Just Your Favorite Part

Jason Adkins with radical advice for our Cafeteria Culture.

August 13, 2015

“Can I Dissent from Laudato Si?”

"The pope isn't speaking infallibly here." "This is just his opinion." etc. The pope is...

July 2015

July 21, 2015

Interesting

Philippine Catholics Respond to Papal Encyclical With Massive Mobilization for Climate Action Manila, Philippines: The...

July 20, 2015

Fr. Robert Barron on Laudato Si and the Pope’s Recent Comments on Capitalism

Customary thoughtful common sense from Fr. Barron, punctuated across the blogosphere by outraged people asking absurd...

July 13, 2015

Laudato Si and Romano Guardini

Typical excellence from Fr. Robert Barron: In 1986, after serving in a variety of capacities...

July 10, 2015

Laudato Si’s Christian prayer in union with Creation

Any Christian who thinks such a prayer is "New Age" is utterly ignorant of the...

July 09, 2015

Laudato Si’s Light Yoke

One of the remarkable things about the encyclical is the tininess of the concrete steps...

July 08, 2015

Laudato Si’s Prayer for our Earth

Notably, it's "our" not "the", expressing both the fact that God has entrusted it to...

July 08, 2015

Laudato Si Reminds Me of Dante

IX. BEYOND THE SUN 243. At the end, we will find ourselves face to face...

July 07, 2015

Laudato Si: Mary = Ora and…

St. Joseph = Labora: 242. At her side in the Holy Family of Nazareth, stands...

July 07, 2015

Laudato Si reverences not Gaia, but Mary

The very typical patristic combination of worship of the Trinity, veneration for Mary, and respect...

July 07, 2015

Laudato Si on All Things Pointing to the Trinity

This is not just a Christian document but an intensely Christian one: 239. For Christians,...

July 06, 2015

Laudato Si on the Joy of the Little Way

St. Therese totally gets this: 222. Christian spirituality proposes an alternative understanding of the quality...

July 06, 2015

Laudato Si on the sacrament of Nature leading to the Sacraments of Christ

Just a lovely passage: 234. Saint John of the Cross taught that all the goodness...

July 03, 2015

Laudato Si on the Libertarian Myth that Individualism Will Take Care of Everything

219. Nevertheless, self-improvement on the part of individuals will not by itself remedy the extremely...

July 03, 2015

Laudato Si Summarized

217. “The external deserts in the world are growing, because the internal deserts have become...

July 03, 2015

Laudato Si on the Inadequacy of our Devolution into STEM Education

215. In this regard, “the relationship between a good aesthetic education and the maintenance of...

June 2015

June 30, 2015

Thoughts After a Conversation with Dr. Robert P. George

So last week, Dr. Robert George contacted me and asked if I'd be interested in...

June 29, 2015

What Gay “Marriage” Does…

...is clarify yet again that, in the West, it is enshrined in law that the...

June 27, 2015

Promising News

Among Republican Catholics 51 percent stand with Francis on Laudato Si. It still means, of...

June 26, 2015

Laudato Si on the Love for the Family and the Environment

As should be bleedin' obvious, respect for nature and respect for the family go hand...

June 25, 2015

Laudato Si, Screwtape, Men, Women, and My Lack of Charity

Francis sez: We are always capable of going out of ourselves towards the other. Unless...

June 25, 2015

Laudato Si on True Freedom of Choice

204. The current global situation engenders a feeling of instability and uncertainty, which in turn...

June 25, 2015

Had Fun talking about Laudato Si with Dale Ahlquist Yesterday

... on "Connecting the Dots". Give it a listen! You can find all my "Connecting...

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