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February 2015

February 25, 2015

Francis to Address Congress in September

Some of my readers are fantasizing about him bringing a whip made of cords and...

February 13, 2015

Tales of Burke/Bergoglio Schism are Greatly Exaggerated

So the big news last week was the ecstasy in Reactionary circles about Cdl. Burke...

January 2015

January 29, 2015

Always Lovely to Hear Voices of Sanity

Thanks Fr. Ted Martin:

January 29, 2015

There Really is No Wiggle Room for Torture Sophists

A reader writes: I just wanted to share something that I think is significant as...

January 28, 2015

Not-At-All Crazy Revenge of the Francis Haters

Maureen Mullarkey, fresh from embarrassing the editorial staff of First Things with a ridiculous rant...

January 28, 2015

Lefty Francis Hangover

After bingeing on the hallucinatory drug that made them imagine the pope was just just...

January 21, 2015

Today’s Francis-Bashing Right Wing Noise Machine Panic

There goes that arch-heretic Francis, talking about responsible parenting with his rabbits comment. The Church has...

January 21, 2015

Pope Francis: Rigidity is the sign of a weak heart

Missed this when he said it, but it's still true, whether we are talking about...

January 20, 2015

Answering Episcopalian Delusions

An Anglican reader writes: Greetings from the hinterlands of Anglicanism. I was directed to a...

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 12, 2015

There are two sorts of people I want to hear from…

...when it comes to climate change and the Church's take on it. One is Catholics...

January 09, 2015

Acts of the Apostasy is having fun

GLOBAL WARMING SPIKES IN ADVANCE OF POPE’S ENCYCLICAL; BLOGGERS’ REACTION CITED When Francis-haters have that...

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...

December 2014

December 23, 2014

Francis to Curia: Merry Christmas and Shape Up

I have a Dominican priest friend who remarked shortly after Francis' election that the main...

December 18, 2014

Rick Warren Calls for Protestants to Unite with Catholics and the “Holy Father”

There are only two classes of people who regard this as a threat. Anti-Catholic Protestants...

December 16, 2014

Real Men

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

December 12, 2014

Pope Calls Angry Blogger

Gets Excommunicated. The keenly discerning combox Magisterium of Real Catholic is really flexing its muscles....

December 08, 2014

Francis on the Burke Kerfuffle

After that the issue of the Order of Malta cropped up and we needed a...

December 06, 2014

Yes! Finally!

Thank you, Bill Doino, for getting what the "Pope's true agenda" is and helping others to...

December 05, 2014

The Brilliant Tom Kreitzberg Sums Things Up

Sez he: This business of Pope Francis "sowing confusion" reminds me of the American who...

November 2014

November 25, 2014

Benedict XVI on the Council

He is his typical insightful self: “There was the Council of the Fathers — the...

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 17, 2014

Lizzie Scalia on Pope Francis

Chemist. Yep. The man is not afraid to make a mess. One of the many...

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...

November 04, 2014

Pope to Host Conference on Why Marriage is Man-Woman

Turns out the guy is Catholic! Who knew?

November 03, 2014

Elton John and the five stages of Intentional Discipleship

Since my post on Elton John admiring Pope Francis, lots of people are writing me...

October 2014

October 31, 2014

Elton John greatly admires Pope Francis

He joins a growing list of people (who represent millions more), hitherto disaffected from the...

October 29, 2014

“God is not a divine being”

There's the latest panic attack source for Reactionaries filled with the dread that, say what Pollyanna...

October 29, 2014

Pope Francis In radical break with his predecessors…

Pope John Paul II ... Today, more than a half-century after the appearance of that...

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