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November 2020

November 03, 2020

Don’t Be Confused About Catholic Teaching

Do you really want to follow Church Teaching and be genuinely pro-life? Don’t be confused,...

October 2020

October 29, 2020

The Gospel of Paul VS the Gospel of Jesus

The Gospel of Paul differs from the "good news" proclaimed by Jesus before his death...

October 27, 2020

Homosexuality, Francis & the Bible

When it comes to homosexuality, many Christians are being stupid and unfair to both Pope...

October 24, 2020

Rising COVID-19 Responsibility

Rising Cases of COVID-19 is a grim reminder of criminal negligence among leaders, both secular...

October 22, 2020

Gentiles—Did Paul Really Care About Them?

Gentiles and the historical Paul mix well in imaginations colored by spurious facts, but not...

October 19, 2020

Math Debunks Pauline Myths

Math doesn’t lie about Paul’s evangelization. In yesterday’s post, we discussed the reliability of...

October 18, 2020

Paul Evangelized the Gentiles, Right??

When it comes to reading Paul for cues about how to evangelize, Christians’ worst obstacle...

October 17, 2020

HAUNTING on Netflix Offers Deep Spirituality

Give me more Mike Flanagan anything. The horror filmmaker doesn’t offer cheap chills and thrills—he...

October 16, 2020

Carlo Acutis & Catholic Nonsense

No more JPII saints. I am nauseated by them. As should you be. This...

October 10, 2020

Gratitude Is A Lifesaver

Gratitude saves even in the darkest days. Dark thoughts sometimes enter the head. When this...

October 06, 2020

Holy Person: The Biblical Sense

Believers were given the fantastic vocation at baptism to become a holy person—but what does...

October 02, 2020

Trump Has Coronavirus

President Donald Trump has COVID-19. Trump Has Coronavirus. This virus doesn’t care about your status...

September 2020

September 30, 2020

Embarrassment Worldwide

Embarrassment, my fellow Americans, is what it is. We are an international embarrassment. I’m not...

September 28, 2020

Allegory-gone-wild Makes Scripture “Obvious”

Allegory-gone-wild makes things in Scripture deceptively "obvious”. Since New Testament times, believers seem to be...

September 26, 2020

Penance: What the Hell Are We Doing?

Got a question for you. Jesus is disclosed in the sacraments, yes? Hope the Catholics...

September 25, 2020

What Are the Moral Limits of Pacifism?

May God grant us insight to both discern the moral limits of pacifism and actively...

September 19, 2020

What Made John of Apocalypse a Prophet?

While it is tempting to see our dark trials written about in Revelation, John the...

September 16, 2020

Who Is Worthy of the Eucharist?

Who is worthy of inclusion at the Lord's Table matters in times when Eucharist is...

September 12, 2020

Stupidity In Catholics: Deadly

Catholic stupidity is deadlier than a host of evils. Last time, I wrote about the...

September 09, 2020

A Cruel Church Signifies What?

What happens when the Church, as a sacrament, fails to do what it signifies? Sacraments...

September 04, 2020

Mirage or Miracle?

When 21st-century Western Christians take anything in the Bible at face value, it’ll take a...

September 02, 2020

Predestination & Prophecy: Not About the Future

Biblical prophecy and predestination concern the forthcoming, not the far future like in popular American...

August 2020

August 31, 2020

Jeremiah Raped? A Disturbing Metaphor

Jeremiah raped by God may sound blasphemous, but this metaphor is Scriptural. Things were getting...

August 29, 2020

Chadwick Boseman Forever

Chadwick Boseman is dead at 43, leaving us a legacy of heroes reminding us that...

August 29, 2020

Is Donald Trump the Antichrist?

Is Donald Trump the Antichrist, or does the book called Revelation say nothing about either...

August 26, 2020

Apocalypse Then VS. Apocalypse Now

Apocalypse then meant something, and Revelation, as well as any other Scripture, must first be...

August 23, 2020

Do Baptism and Eucharist Need Magic Words?

Baptism and Eucharist should be more than using correct verbal formulas. COVID-19 continues to ravage...

August 19, 2020

Jesus, Master of Insults

Jesus, Master of Insults, was not the sweet, polite, gentle figure we imagine in parishes...

August 17, 2020

Trads Claim Calling Mary Poor is “Hateful Heresy”

Trads claim that recognizing the starving poverty of Galilean peasants Mary and Jesus is “hateful...

August 16, 2020

Jesus Loses to a Foreign Woman

Master of arguments and insults, Jesus loses at his own game, beaten by a foreign...