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September 2016

September 06, 2016

This is a prolife issue

"I can look in their faces and say, ‘You can’t come here.’" - Donald Trump,...

August 2016

August 26, 2016

A reader struggles with a sense of loneliness in the Church

He writes: I just came across your "honest and heartfelt exchange with a friend who...

July 2016

July 29, 2016

Timothy O’Malley hit his breaking point with the Dems

and left. A political party with a sense of human dignity, that doesn’t cheer for...

June 2016

June 28, 2016

A chance to do a work of mercy!

A reader writes: Mr. Shea, would you mind putting this on your blog? In Uganda,...

June 25, 2016

The guy responsible for poisoning the people of Flint

...budget 300 hundred thousand dollars for testing poor people for drugs in order to pointlessly...

December 2015

December 22, 2015

Jesus the Refugee

A reader writes: I thought this would be of interest to you and to your...

December 18, 2015

“I was a stranger, and you did your best to starve me, my wife, and our four year old…”

Governor Deal is acting like a goat. Goats don't have happy endings. Sign the petition...

December 12, 2015

Proud of My Church

Catholic Archdiocese Defies Governor of Indiana, Welcomes Refugees

December 03, 2015

When you feel guilty about spitting in the faces of desperate people…

...you tell yourself anything to rationalize your behavior:

November 2015

November 19, 2015

Dear Good Christians Railing Against Helping Refugees

The Satanic Temple Minneapolis Chapter writes: If there is anyone in the Minneapolis area who...

November 19, 2015

Scenes from the Existential Civilizational Struggle

Another Billion Dollars in Arms Sold--to our Dear Friends the Saudis. Cuz we are totally...

November 18, 2015

The Party of Herod vs the Least of These

One of the things I periodically heard as a young Christian was that a great...

October 2015

October 28, 2015

Just because he’s awesome, here is Chesterton on “The Orthodox Barber”

Those thinkers who cannot believe in any gods often assert that the love of humanity...

October 16, 2015

Giving Houses to the Homeless is Three Times Cheaper Than Leaving Them on the Street

Sure it works in reality, but will it work in theory?

September 2015

September 23, 2015

Pope Delivers Living Example of How to Treat Refugees at our Border

Terrifying invader--also known as "adorable little girl"--welcomed and loved and cherished by Holy Father, because...

September 16, 2015

Refuse to Have Kids?

Then make room for immigrants, says Pope Francis. I love this. The Holy Father brilliantly...

September 14, 2015

Consider the Possibility of Sticking your Head outside the Bubble

...and consider the possibility that listening only to what your itching ears are already bound...

September 14, 2015

Inside the Migrant Jungle in Northern France

Heartbreaking.

September 12, 2015

The Largest Mass of Displaced Persons Since World War II

Tragic Numbers from MarkFiore on Vimeo. Listen to the Pope, not to an anti-Christian, anti-human...

September 10, 2015

The Narrative of Contempt for Refugees Being Propagated by the Right Wing Noise Machine is Now Hardening in the Minds and Heart of the Party of Crazy

Pope Francis called upon Catholics and people of good will to help the desperate refugees...

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

The Refugees We Helped Create

A reader writes: The mostly Sunni Arab population of western and northern Iraq is faced...

September 08, 2015

Scott Eric Alt Takes Apart the Cold Heartlessness…

...of the Right's latest Court Prophet for Cruelty to the Alien, the Orphan, and the...

April 2015

April 13, 2015

Fr. Dwight Longenecker on Pewsitter’s Contempt for the Poor

Good to see this stuff get called out. Well done, padre!

March 2015

March 31, 2015

Waikiki Takes a Step in the Right Direction

...with the homeless--helping instead of criminalizing them.

March 20, 2015

Good on San Francisco

They apologized for the sprinklers. Well done! By the way, as has been noted: yes,...

March 18, 2015

St. Lawrence Rolls Over on His Griddle

...as the San Francisco Cathedral installs sprinklers to douse the homeless who seek shelter in...

November 2014

November 13, 2014

In nothing is the gospel so evident…

...as in the contrast between the way Christ and the world treat the least of...

November 03, 2014

This is as much an assault on religious liberty as the HHS Mandate

The only difference is that it is (for the moment) a local rather than national...

September 2014

September 09, 2014

Nebraska Taxpayers for Freedom: Standing Tall to Make Sure Children are Demonized

If our Founding Fathers didn't fight for the right to wave guns at terrified children,...

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