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2023-07-10T23:51:27-04:00

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The Sons of Levi

Last updated on: July 10, 2023 at 11:51 pm By Gabriel Blanchard

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THIS POST DEALS WITH SEXUAL ABUSE. PLEASE READ WITH CAUTION. The Image of Gog The Vatican reached a new low the other day. (Well, a new low to my knowledge.) I speak of a recent pronouncement made on the subject of Slovenian priest Fr. Marko Rupnik. You may have heard of him. In addition to being a Jesuit priest and author of several books, he is also a liturgical artist of considerable repute, whose mosaics grace the shrines of Our... Read more

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2023-06-28T14:49:33-04:00

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Proud and Prejudiced, Part II: I Answer That

Last updated on: June 28, 2023 at 2:49 pm By Gabriel Blanchard

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This continues my discussion of Pride celebrations from last week. Ye Have Heard That It Was Said To review, the objection to Pride celebrations we had next to consider ran along these lines: What about all the sexual immorality? You make such a virtue of accepting Catholic teaching about homosexuality—which is the least you should be doing, and you’ve admitted many times to not actually observing this teaching. Can’t you at least admit that the “identity” Pride festivals celebrate is rooted... Read more

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2023-06-24T03:35:18-04:00

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Proud and Prejudiced, Part I: Catholics and Gay Pride

Last updated on: June 24, 2023 at 3:35 am By Gabriel Blanchard

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A Summer Festivus How should Catholics respond to Pride festivities? A classic question for the apologist, which we can only assume slipped the minds of the Apostles, else it would surely be addressed in the New Testament. In order to give any sincere, intelligent answer to this question, we need to know what Pride is. Social media abounds in Catholics who are eager to tell us that pride is one of the seven capital sins.1 Luckily, words only ever mean... Read more

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2023-07-25T21:52:05-04:00

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The Church of the Weeping Angels, Part 1

Last updated on: July 25, 2023 at 9:52 pm By Gabriel Blanchard

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CONTENT WARNING: RACIST AND ANTI-SEMITIC TROPES AND LANGUAGE. Hope In Fools Dr. Janet E. Smith recently announced her decision to withdraw from the Hope Is Fuel conference. Hope Is Fuel was put together by Patrick Coffin, a professional apologist formerly associated with Catholic Answers (and, as of the last few years, a public sedevacantist1). Dr. Smith is a respected conservative theologian, with a specialty in bioethical issues, particularly contraception. Other speakers slated for the conference included—and to my knowledge still... Read more

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2023-04-26T16:30:49-04:00

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The Party of the Beast: Intro

Last updated on: April 26, 2023 at 4:30 pm By Gabriel Blanchard

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A Sign of Contradiction Christian nationalism has gotten popular in the US over the last decade or so. It isn’t the same thing as Trumpism: Trumpism is a version of Christian nationalism, and a fairly crude one, but there are much more sophisticated types. This is why educated, literate voices like Doug Wilson and Stephen Wolfe can promote Christian nationalism among Protestants as a serious political project; it’s a little like theonomy,1 which Wilson has been preaching for decades. Among... Read more

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2023-04-16T18:41:17-04:00

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A Very Low Sunday

Last updated on: April 16, 2023 at 6:41 pm By Gabriel Blanchard

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Low Sunday The first Sunday after Easter is known in the English tradition as “Low Sunday.” It has other names; one of the more famous is “Quasimodo Sunday,” after the first two words of today’s introit1: Quasi modo geniti infantes rationabile sine dolo lac concupiscite (“Like as newborn infants, desire the milk spiritual, without deceit”). It is after this introit that Victor Hugo’s Quasimodo is named. The origin of the English name isn’t certain. One theory is that it’s in... Read more

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2023-04-01T18:37:02-04:00

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Meditations for Holy Week 2023

Last updated on: April 1, 2023 at 6:37 pm By Gabriel Blanchard

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Palm Sunday In the rash lustihead of my young powers, . I shook the pillaring hours And pulled my life upon me; grimed with smears, I stand amid the dust o’ the mounded years— My mangled youth lies dead beneath the heap. My days have crackled and gone up in smoke, Have puffed and burst as sun-starts on a stream. . Yea, faileth now even dream The dreamer, and the lute the lutanist; Even the linked fantasies, in... Read more

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2023-03-31T21:13:42-04:00

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Passiontide

Last updated on: March 31, 2023 at 9:13 pm By Gabriel Blanchard

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The Veiling of the Ikons The Fifth Sunday in Lent, this past, is also known as Passion Sunday. Falling one week before Palm Sunday, it used to be the beginning of a discrete sub-season within Lent, known as Passiontide. One observance from this period that remains common is the veiling of ikons, crucifixes especially. Purple is the most traditional color for the veils, if I recall correctly (but white and black are also used); it makes me think of something... Read more

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2023-03-21T17:53:13-04:00

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Five Quick Takes

Last updated on: March 21, 2023 at 5:53 pm By Gabriel Blanchard

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I. As it’s the twentieth anniversary of the US invasion of Iraq, a lot of people on Twitter have been looking back on said invasion. I reflected on it a little myself this morning. I was fifteen at the time, still an evangelical (increasingly curious about Catholicism but still very far from converting), in the middle of high school; the invasion was a major contributor to my growing cynicism about American Christianity. It wasn’t just that the US had entered... Read more

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2023-03-18T16:30:30-04:00

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The Disk-Horse’s Last Cup of Coffee

Last updated on: March 18, 2023 at 4:30 pm By Gabriel Blanchard

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The Story So Far For those just tuning in, this series is about gender transition in Catholic doctrine. If you have the time and inclination, you can read the first, second, and third parts of this series at the highlighted links; if not, I’ve done my best to summarize below. About a month ago, a few Catholic priests tweeted some extremely ignorant remarks on trans issues. This made me pretty angry, for several reason. People authoritatively spouting nonsense usually gets... Read more

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