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June 2019

June 28, 2019

Health care is a human right that precedes the State.

Recently a meme made its way around Facebook; and on the left side, it...

June 23, 2019

But Alt! The Church Says Nations Have a Right to Control Borders!

And interlocutors have the duty to avoid logical fallacies like straw men; I know...

June 09, 2019

Yes, I’m a Social Justice Warrior. Why Aren’t You?

One self-appointed Catholic sage writes: "Once they"--they here meaning the so-called Catholic Left--"get started...

November 2018

November 04, 2018

If You Really Want to Understand Catholic Social Doctrine, You Must Read …

The Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church. When I have written about Church...

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...

March 2017

March 17, 2017

Yes, There Is Such a Thing as Social Sin in Catholic Teaching. Here’s What It Means. (And What It Does Not.)

Last month, Michael "Lepanto Institute" Hichborn made the lunatic claim that Judas Iscariot is "the...

March 13, 2017

Does This Ratzinger Quote Refute Catholic Social Justice Advocates?

But Alt! Is social justice really a duty of the State? Come now. Doesn't Ratzinger...

October 2016

October 04, 2016

But Is It the Government’s Job to Ensure a Just Wage?

But Alt!" a reader asks. "Isn't the just wage a private contract between employer and...

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...

September 2015

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 07, 2015

Does John Zmirak Even Understand Church Teaching?

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

June 2015

June 25, 2015

Laudato Si is a Hard Teaching. And We Must Accept It.

Encyclicals take time to read. They take still longer to digest and understand, and longer...

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...

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,...

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...

August 2014

August 05, 2014

The Saints and Social Justice by Brandon Vogt: A Review

"I beg you, look for the words 'social justice' or 'economic justice' on your church...

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...

January 2014

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...