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August 2018

August 04, 2018

Kwasniewski, Fr. Murray, Death Site News Promote Falsehoods on Death Penalty

On Mr. Arroyo's anti-Francis propaganda show The World Over, Fr. Murray said he had no...

April 2018

April 11, 2018

Pope Francis Contradicts B16 and JP2 on Abortion? Fake (Site) News!

I tell you again: Give no credence to Fake Site News. Never give them credence,...

October 2017

October 04, 2017

Fake Site News & Crisis!!!!! Misrepresent Pope Francis on Civil Unions. Pope Francis Derangement Syndrome Vol. XIX.

Wrong information is being given out at Fake Site News. (The credulous call it Life...

September 2017

September 16, 2017

Fake Site News Falsely Accuses New Pro Life Movement of “Liberal Boilerplate”

Contrary to the insistence of Fake Site News, the goals of the New Pro Life...

September 13, 2017

Reports of the Threats to Humanae Vitae Are Greatly Exaggerated

Can we read what Pope Francis has actually said about Humanae Vitae? Is this too...

April 2017

April 04, 2017

Oh, That Conference on Deposing a Pope: Church Militant Had It Wrong. And LifeSiteNews.

Our friends at Church Dilettante were all jittery last month (not with coffee but anticipation)...

March 2017

March 07, 2017

Oh, That Story About Pope Francis Advocating Population Control …

It was based on a misquotation. Oops. Here is what Vatican panelist Peter Raven actually...

March 05, 2017

Attention Fox News, et al.: The Pope Has Condemned Population Control

Fox News is reporting it. The UK Independent is reporting it. Life Site News is...

June 2016

June 21, 2016

Pope Francis Corrects Pope Francis; Will Media Correct Media? [Updated]

Update: An earlier version of what is below stated, incorrectly, that Adam Shaw's article neglected...

May 2016

May 12, 2016

Let’s All Take a Breath about “Women Deacons”

The National So-Called Catholic Reporter falls down in a paroxysm of joy. In their spasms...

May 02, 2016

Now if Life Site News Could Correct the Record. Again. [Updated]

This post is intended as a brief follow-up to yesterday's (here), in which I noted...

April 2016

April 19, 2016

Life Site News Gets a Pope Story Wrong. Again.

And it's by Jon-Henry Westen again; wonders! Been there, done that. In this latest example...

April 11, 2016

Steve Skojec Says Amoris Laetitia 298 Condones Adultery. Steve Skojec is Wrong.

People send me links ("Did you see this??"); I don't seek out these things anymore....

April 07, 2016

New York Times Attempts to Read Tea Leaves Ahead of Amoris Laetitia

At the New York Times, there is an article today optimistically titled "How Pope Francis’...

April 01, 2016

Is Doubting the Resurrection “Good for Christians”?

In a recent article in the Washington Post, Jacob Lupfer argues that "doubting the Bible...

March 2016

March 05, 2016

Life Site News Gets a Pope Story Wrong. Remnant and Rorate Repeat.

At Life Site News, John-Henry Westen was first to publish the claim, on February 25....

February 2016

February 22, 2016

No, the Pope Is Not “Bossing Around” the U.S. on Border Wall

Political agitator Ann Coulter took to Twitter a few days ago to share these sterling...

October 2015

October 01, 2015

Notes on a Dumb Show: Maureen Mullarkey’s Latest Rant. Pope Francis Derangement Syndrome Vol. XVI.

Maureen Mullarkey has given vent to another in a long, splenetic string of anti-Francis bloggage....

September 2015

September 29, 2015

Disappointed Judge Napolitano Calls Pope Francis a “False Prophet.” Pope Francis Derangement Syndrome Vol. XV.

So I go to Fox News and I find Judge Napolitano raving on about the...

September 20, 2015

The American Right Erupts in Collective Nutty Over Papal Visit. Pope Francis Derangement Syndrome Vol. XIV.

Rep. Paul Gosar of Arizona is vexed that the pope might not mention subjects near...

September 15, 2015

Rolling Stoned on Pope Francis: Part IV.

Ahead of the papal visit later this month, Mark Binelli is back with another effusive...

September 14, 2015

The Year of Mercy Confounds New York Times Columnist. Pope Francis Derangement Syndrome Vol. XIII.

"You cannot conceive, nor can I,” Graham Greene writes in Brighton Rock, “of the appalling...

September 07, 2015

Does John Zmirak Even Understand Church Teaching?

Having read his recent column, titled "Open Borders Catholics Falsify Church Teaching," I am not...

September 03, 2015

Greg Toppo of USA Today Says Pope’s Beliefs Just Like Those of Dissenting Catholics. Pope Francis Derangement Syndrome Vol. XII.

Greg Toppo, is USA Today's “national K-12 education writer. He’s interested in tech & how...

May 2015

May 19, 2015

Before You Get Outraged and Share That Post on Your Social Media Profile…

Only two things matter: the salvation of the soul, and truth. That is why it...

April 2015

April 09, 2015

Frank Bruni, of New York Times, Hectors Christians: “Bow to the Enlightenments of Modernity!”

So the New York Times ran a column by Frank Bruni—of all the days in...

February 2015

February 23, 2015

I’m Shocked, Shocked to Find That There is Orthodoxy Going On In This Papacy: Pope Francis Derangement Syndrome Vol. XI

PFDS, on the left, has reached a critical mass where more and more are reporting...

February 12, 2015

Giordano Bruno and the Truth About the Inquisition, Part 1

Earlier this month, Politicus USA, some named Hrafnkell Haraldsson had a wild fit of pique...

February 02, 2015

Notre Dame Professor Dr. Candida Moss Says Jesus “Wasn’t Down With Marriage”

Dr. Candida Moss—who is still permitted to teach at Notre Dame, to no one’s great...

January 2015

January 28, 2015

Anti-Papal Malarkey and Damnable Schism: Pope Francis Derangement Syndrome Vol. X

Pope Francis Derangement Syndrome, on the right, has reached full-scale, raw and tuneless, no-holds-barred, cloud-cuckoo-land,...