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January 2015

January 19, 2015

Freedom of religion vs. freedom of worship

The Constitution protects freedom of religion. The Left advocates freedom of worship. What's the diff?...

January 19, 2015

Pope turns out to be Catholic

Opposes artificial contraception and gay "marriage", fails to confirm upscale Episcopalian wannabe in her okayness....

January 15, 2015

Francis vs. Victor Davis Hanson

Over at National Review, Victor Davis Hanson, one of the avatars of conservatism's epic anti-charism...

January 13, 2015

Point of Clarification

If somebody says that they believe all that the holy Catholic Church believes, teaches, and...

January 12, 2015

You cannot cure a diseased spirituality with another diseased spirituality

You can only cure it with a healthy spirituality. Jesus is healthy spirituality. Both radical...

January 08, 2015

Michael Voris Slanders Fr. Barron

While Fr. Barron is busy filming about Chesterton and Newman in England, for CATHOLICISM: The...

January 08, 2015

Pharaoh and the Gosnellification of Terrorists

So, yet again, Bronze Age savages with 21st century technology have inflicted a wound on...

January 07, 2015

As if to illustrate my point…

about the deranged, anti-Catholic thing that so much of the "faithful conservative" Catholic subculture has...

January 06, 2015

Used to be that the Pope wrote teaching documents…

...and then people read them and responded by trying to figure out how to incorporate...

December 2014

December 29, 2014

Phil Lawler Wrestles with a Mysteriously Popular Desperate Lie from Catholic Torture Defenders

The man has written wisely and well on the this beloved-by-far-too-many-conservative-Catholics mortal sin and, as...

December 23, 2014

“To stamp out world Communism I would be willing to destroy the entire universe, even to the furthest star.”

Ryan McMaken on some of the truly insane things rattling around in the attic of...

December 22, 2014

Is Catholicism the Babylon Mystery Religion?

Over at Catholic World Report, we take a look at the actual relationship between the...

December 17, 2014

Stephen Hawking and the Media Rolodex

Every few months, Stephen Hawking will emit some comment that, on the lips of any...

December 16, 2014

Real Men

Another popular lie of the Torture Defender is enunciated by a manly laptop bombardier in...

December 15, 2014

Since Charles Krauthammer is in the News Defending Torture

...and various manly readers from Pewsitter have busied themselves in my comboxes with the standard...

December 12, 2014

The Stench of Lying Desperation from Torture Defenders

The Definition Game--"Sure I agree that torture is wrong. But golly gee willikers who even...

December 12, 2014

Why Am I So Harsh on the Incestuous Relationship between Catholics and “Conservatism”?

Simple. If Nancy Pelosi were to declare that abortion should be a sacrament, not one...

December 11, 2014

What Torture Broke Was Us: An Examination of Conscience for American Catholic Torture Defenders

Now that the Torture Report is out and we are discovering that the lies we...

December 10, 2014

Pope Discusses New Heaven and New Earth for Very First Time in Catholic History

I remember when Benedict gave a homily on our responsibility for creation a few years...

December 10, 2014

17 Disgraceful Facts Buried in the Torture Report

The hits just keep on coming: 1. Torture did not lead the CIA to the...

December 09, 2014

The Torture Report

This is what "conservatives", including *especially* anti-abortion-but-not-prolife "faithful conservative Catholics" have fought to defend for...

December 08, 2014

Having to Kill vs. Getting to Kill

One of the perennial questions that arises in discussion of the morality of violence is...

December 03, 2014

Dear Catholic League: Please Stop Helping

Here's CL's latest Holiday Offering/a> Because putting a wordy, confusing, hostile, defensive, and passive-aggressive billboard...

November 2014

November 25, 2014

Question from an Orthodox Reader: Why Am I Catholic?

He writes: Hi Mark - I've read your blog (+ articles) for many years now,...

November 21, 2014

The Difference between Dick Cheney and Lakechia Schonta Stanley

...is that when he authorizes drowning somebody and calls it "dunking" or a "splash of water",...

November 20, 2014

A reader is concerned that Patti Smith will do a concert at the Vatican

She writes: Now I know this is written from a charmingly anti-Catholic perspective--and that indeed...

November 19, 2014

Cardinal George has some questions for Pope Francis

Very reasonable ones, it seems to me, and I'd love to be a fly on...

November 18, 2014

The Roots of Catholicism: Pagan or Jewish

Yr. Obdt. Svt. looks at the common notion that Christianity is just warmed-over paganism.

November 14, 2014

What if Pope Francis’ Translators…

...translated other stuff in history? Pretty funny. You'd think that a polyglot Church would get...

November 12, 2014

Some Perspective on Francis, Priesthood, and Curial Appointments

I keep having panicky readers complain, "It is obvious that Francis has it in for faithful conservative...

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