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September 2015

September 22, 2015

Lizzie Scalia Gets into the Saddle Over at Aleteia

She looks at the Papal Visit and asks "How offended do you want to be?"

September 21, 2015

The White House is More Afraid of Offending China

...than the Pope. It's easy to bravely face the applause of your peers on cheap...

September 21, 2015

Today’s Festival of Conservative Francis Hate

In addition to a Congressional member of the Greatest Catholics of All Time boycotting the...

September 18, 2015

Catholic Congresscritter Bravely Faces the Applause of the Conservative Francis-Haters

Boycotts the Pope's address to Congress because he and his Frankenstein base (the same sort...

September 15, 2015

CNN on the Right Wing Francis Freak Out

Network finally gets around to noticing the hysteria on the Right, as well as talking...

September 11, 2015

Pope Francis on the Moral Ordeal of Abortion

I love this guy so much.

September 09, 2015

The Right Wing Noise Machine’s Conflicting Nativist Narratives

With respect to the humanitarian disaster in Europe, the very carefully architected narrative of the...

September 09, 2015

There are three things I do not understand…

...four that are too wonderful for me: the way of a snake on a rock,...

September 02, 2015

Pope Francis Seems to be Connecting with Americans

He chatted with three different audiences the other day.

August 2015

August 27, 2015

Philly inmates create carved chair for papal visit

Very nice craftsmanship. And fitting, particularly for this pope.

August 26, 2015

Bill Doino, Jr. on the Pope’s Upcoming Visit to America

In which he is, as I am, banking on it being a big success, even...

August 22, 2015

A Reader is Miffed at a Reflection I Wrote on the Gospel a While Back

He writes: Forgive me if I am reading into it, but your reflection on the...

July 2015

July 27, 2015

Welfare Queens, St. James, Trump, Francis, and Recent Polls

These guys need to learn how to work for a living and not go around...

July 24, 2015

The Mysterious Conservative Loathing of Francis

A reader writes: Have you read Pope Francis' speech at the World Meeting of Popular...

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 10, 2015

Pope Receives Summer Re-Education Camp Arts and Crafts Project

So the Pope is in South America right now and at a recent audience, some...

June 2015

June 26, 2015

Where in the US is Flat Francis?

So this is a thing.

June 13, 2015

Funniest Thing I’ve Seen This Month

I have no idea who made this, but it is screamingly funny: I'd love to...

June 09, 2015

Trust thou not in fake memes – Not William Shakespeare

This is the latest bit of evidence circulating in the Reactionarysphere in the ongoing combox...

June 02, 2015

The “Heads I Win, Tails You Lose” Strategy of Conservative Dissent

When the Pope says things that upset the Left, we hear that the faith is...

June 01, 2015

“Pope Francis Made My Mom Stop Hating Catholicism”

There are, roughly speaking, two ways stories like this get interpreted in our polarized American...

May 2015

May 23, 2015

Elizabeth Stoker-Bruenig has a Smart Look at Pope Francis

She is a rare bird: a lefty who takes seriously not only Francis as a...

May 15, 2015

How Everybody Will Misread the Encyclical on the Environment

...and how it should be read: Yesterday I heard a story on NPR about the...

May 05, 2015

Francis inspires rising tide of exorcists and exorcisms

Francis' respect for and practical belief in the reality of the demonic has allowed people...

April 2015

April 29, 2015

Francis the Revolutionary

Boy! That radical Francis represents a complete break with the consistent teaching of the Church!

April 09, 2015

Pope Lauds Iran Nuke Deal

When the pope is happy and the guys responsible for the debacle in Iraq are...

April 08, 2015

Francis’ Baffling Chilean Appointment

Bill Doino, Jr. writes: Pope Francis has done many admirable things during his pontificate, not...

March 2015

March 30, 2015

Pope Francis Minutes

Reader Garrett Johnson writes: Today, Catholic-link.com is launching the first episode of the the first digitally animated...

March 19, 2015

Two Years Out from his Election to the Papacy, Bill Doino is delighted with Pope Francis

He sends along three pieces he has written on the Holy Father here, here, and...

March 04, 2015

Getting to the Heart of Francis

Austin Ivereigh takes a look at what makes Francis tick over at OSV. Russell Shaw...

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