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January 2015

January 26, 2015

Glenn Beck Needs a Team to Teach Him About Catholicism: Pope Francis Derangement Syndrome Vol. IX

Glenn Beck, with the selfless charity of one who thinks well of himself, has offered...

January 21, 2015

Rick Santorum Should Read the Transcript of Pope Francis’s “Rabbits” Remark. So Should Everyone Else.

I think the number of three children per family that you mentioned ... I think...

January 20, 2015

More Liberal Denial and Despair Over Pope Francis: Pope Francis Derangement Syndrome Vol. VIII

Liberalism, as it exists today, is a fairy tale that occasionally bumps up against truth,...

June 2014

June 25, 2014

Anna March Unmasks Pope’s Brilliant Disguise: Pope Francis Derangement Syndrome Vol. VII

Before she published her major new essay on Pope Francis this past Sunday, I had...

February 2014

February 04, 2014

Rolling Stoned on Pope Francis, Part III

Of Mark Binelli’s claim in Rolling Stoned — that the pope’s critique of capitalism is the “most...

February 01, 2014

Rolling Stoned on Pope Francis, Part II

Of Pope Francis, Mr. Binelli has this to say: “His recognizable humanity comes off as...

January 2014

January 30, 2014

Rolling Stoned on Pope Francis, Part I

By now, dear reader, you have probably heard that Pope Francis made the cover of...

January 26, 2014

Fox News “Editor” Adam Shaw Has Temper Tantrum Against the Pope: Pope Francis Derangement Syndrome Vol. V

Adam Pshaw is lecturing the pope on economics again. I am surprised Fox News would...

December 2013

December 10, 2013

An Open Letter to Rush Limbaugh on Pope Francis

No no one is trying to make you a "villain." You continue to attribute the...

December 03, 2013

A Counterblast to Rush Limbaugh on Evangelii Gaudium 54: Pope Francis Derangement Syndrome Vol. IV

So I was minding my own business, checking my Facebook the day before Thanksgiving. And...

October 2013

October 05, 2013

Killing Jesus: Could Christ Have Spoken From the Cross?

The best that can be said is that “slow suffocation” is a debated and unsettled...

May 2013

May 10, 2013

Salon’s Mary Elizabeth Williams Attempts to Lecture the Catholic Church on Same-Sex “Marriage”

It behooves any who be honest to get the expression “marriage equality” out of his...

April 2013

April 16, 2013

Leftist Hysteria Continues Over Pope Francis and LCWR

Over at the Daily Screech, someone named Barbie Latza Nadeau has posted a scribbled panic...

April 15, 2013

No Hope and Change for LCWR Under Pope Francis

It seems to me self-evident that the very point of a religion is to advance...

February 2013

February 10, 2013

Quinquagesima: The Law of Love

The entire history of God and man is written in that first couplet. St. Paul...