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July 2021

July 05, 2021

A Fisking of John Thiel’s “The New Donatism”

A Bit of Background More often than not I like Commonweal; I've even seen one...

May 2021

May 26, 2021

The Revolt of Fr. Altman

Who Is Fr. Altman? Fr. James Altman of Wisconsin has achieved notoriety over the past...

April 2021

April 28, 2021

Wolves In the Fold, Pt. 5: Saint Disney

Content Warning This post and series deal with various types of abuse, including sexual abuse...

April 22, 2021

The Shepherds’ Feast

The Pope has laid a princely feast Upon the Church's board; In files each cardinal,...

March 2021

March 26, 2021

Wolves In the Fold, Pt. 4: Shame, Shame

Content Warning This post and series deal with various types of abuse, including sexual abuse...

February 2021

February 25, 2021

Wolves In the Fold, Pt. 1: What Is Spiritual Abuse?

Content Warning This post and series deal with various types of abuse, including sexual abuse...

December 2020

December 21, 2020

Thorns on the Mountain

They say that when Our Lady came to Mexico The bishop mistranslated what she said....

December 04, 2020

The McCarrick Report: Quo Vadis

THIS SERIES DEALS WITH SEXUAL ABUSE. PLEASE READ WITH CAUTION. AN INTRODUCTION AND FURTHER DISCLAIMERS...

December 01, 2020

The McCarrick Report: Den of Thieves

THIS SERIES DEALS WITH SEXUAL ABUSE. PLEASE READ WITH CAUTION. AN INTRODUCTION AND FURTHER DISCLAIMERS...

November 2020

November 28, 2020

The McCarrick Report: The Venom of Viganò

THIS SERIES DEALS WITH SEXUAL ABUSE. PLEASE READ WITH CAUTION. AN INTRODUCTION AND FURTHER DISCLAIMERS...

November 24, 2020

The McCarrick Report: Pope Francis

THIS SERIES DEALS WITH SEXUAL ABUSE. PLEASE READ WITH CAUTION. AN INTRODUCTION AND FURTHER DISCLAIMERS...

November 23, 2020

The McCarrick Report: Pope Benedict XVI

THIS SERIES DEALS WITH SEXUAL ABUSE. PLEASE READ WITH CAUTION. AN INTRODUCTION AND FURTHER DISCLAIMERS...

November 21, 2020

The McCarrick Report: Pope John Paul II

THIS SERIES DEALS WITH SEXUAL ABUSE. PLEASE READ WITH CAUTION. AN INTRODUCTION AND FURTHER DISCLAIMERS...

November 20, 2020

The McCarrick Report: The Bishops’ Gambit

THIS SERIES DEALS WITH SEXUAL ABUSE. PLEASE READ WITH CAUTION. AN INTRODUCTION AND FURTHER DISCLAIMERS...

November 16, 2020

Intro to the McCarrick Report

The Bad Beginning So. The McCarrick report. Hoo boy. I'm hitting pause on my current...

October 2020

October 19, 2020

Why the Left Isn’t Nice Enough, Part I: When You Cancel the Abyss, the Abyss Also Cancels You

Centrists, conservatives, and the alt-right love telling leftists that we're mean. "Where has civil discourse...

October 06, 2020

The Double Gold Standard

The English translation of Pope Francis' encyclical Fratelli Tutti was released on the fourth. Among...

July 2020

July 31, 2020

A couple days ago, Catholic Arena (a media outlet I hadn't come across before) shared...

December 2019

December 04, 2019

A Program for Reform, Part Four

Part One; Part Two; Part Three And now we come to the salacious part, the...

November 2019

November 25, 2019

A Program for Reform, Part Three

Financial corruption is another major element that runs throughout the Church's scandals. It takes money...

November 20, 2019

A Program for Reform, Part Two

Part One Let's start with some suggestions for reforming authority structures in the Church, shall...

November 15, 2019

A Program for Reform, Part One

Wanna mess around and massively reform the Catholic Church? haha jk ... unless? The sex...

October 2019

October 24, 2019

Theotokos or Pachamama?

The suspicion, hostility, and charges of idolatry being launched against the Amazon Synod, the Vatican...

September 2019

September 23, 2019

Clapback Comes for the Archbishop, Part One

Archbishop Charles Chaput's recent column about Fr James Martin, and the latter's reply, have been...

September 18, 2019

Don’t Leave Me

What a time to be a Catholic. The USCCB, with its usual cultural aplomb and...

September 14, 2019

Authentic? Part Two

Part One Can you perform authenticity? Can you edit your own experience without falsifying it?...

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