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July 2019

July 20, 2019

Frank Pavone hates America.

We have heard, from those who deny that Trump's tweet against The Squad was...

July 02, 2019

The desperate need love and mercy, not judgment.

Yesterday my very excellent fellow Patheos blogger Mary Pezzulo asks: What Must a Christian...

August 2018

August 19, 2018

Clergy Sexual Assault Not About Homosexuality But Power

Somewhere I read a plea that we not say "they sexually abused" or "they molested"...

May 2017

May 04, 2017

I, Scott Eric Alt, Forced Trump’s Hand and Saved the Little Sisters

It was I, dear reader, who said, on this very blog---here---that if Mr. Trump wanted...

April 2017

April 25, 2017

Trump Contracepts Promise to Little Sisters of the Poor

If Trump wanted, he could exempt the Little Sisters of the Poor from the contraception...

April 24, 2017

Dissenting Catholic Dick Durbin Tells Dems Not to Dissent From Party on Abortion

The hypocrisy of Sen. Dick Durbin knows no bounds. He is a Catholic who publicly...

April 12, 2017

Sean Spicer Is Right: German Jews Weren’t German Citizens

Sean Spicer, spokesman for the Reich, stupefied the masses when he said: "I think when...

November 2016

November 11, 2016

How Long Has Fr. Frank Pavone Had that Fetus?

Mary Pezzulo posts the following observation from a reader. This is in reference to Fr....

November 08, 2016

The Evil of Abortion Does Not Justify Fr. Frank Pavone

Abortion is an evil. Period. Abortionists murder. Society must outlaw it. End stop. But Fr....

July 2016

July 23, 2016

Vote Republican to Stop Abortion! And Other Myths

Trump supporters overnumerous for mention promise, with prognostication and crystal-ball certainty, that a vote for...

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...

June 17, 2016

Is Premarital Kissing a Sin? and Other Quick Takes: 7QT XXII Seriatim

I Apparently there's a crisis of premarital kissing afoot, and Traddy bloggers must call it...

June 13, 2016

Still Say The Orlando Shooting Was About Radical Islam?

Then you need read these words from Fundamentalist Baptist and King James Onlyist Pastor Steven...

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...

January 2016

January 21, 2016

Sarah Palin Sings I Am the Walrus

I am me As Trump is we And we are free And let's vote Trump...

January 14, 2016

Seven Reasons to Vote for Donald Trump. 7QT XXII Seriatim.

NEVER before in American history, dear reader, has a presidential race been as important as...

February 2015

February 08, 2015

Obama’s Remarks on the Crusades and ISIS: Some Addenda

Some, on blogs and in social media, have been urging that the outrage over President...

February 05, 2015

No, Mr. Obama, The Crusades and ISIS Are Not The Same Thing

At the National Prayer Breakfast this morning, President Obama said: "Lest we get on our...

February 04, 2015

On Harper Lee’s New Book: Should “To Kill a Mockingbird” Have a Sequel?

Go Set a Watchman may not exactly make Harper Lee look like a “fool.” That...

January 2015

January 30, 2015

Aborted Ethics and Wrongful Liabilities: What Hath the Court Wrought?

You will have heard, I take it, of a recent “wrongful birth” lawsuit. It was...

September 2014

September 12, 2014

Anti-Catholic Agitator Ian Paisley Dies

Dr. Paisley "said he considered all Catholics to be members of the Irish Republican Army,...

August 2014

August 18, 2014

That Life Exists and Identity: Thoughts on Robin Williams & Depression

When "Dead Poets Society" came out, I was in college and struggling as a political...

July 2014

July 26, 2014

In Defense of Ben Seewald

It is a reflection of how badly addicted we have become to outrage porn that...

March 2014

March 21, 2014

Even My Book Reviews Worry Protestants, & Other Quick Takes: 7QT XVIII Seriatim

1. The combox is not your blog. 2. Fred Phelps has gone to his eternal...

March 14, 2014

A Sovereign Pope Would Do Things My Way & Other Quick Takes: 7QT XVII Seriatim

1. If Francis were truly the sovereign we need, he would do what I say....

February 2014

February 05, 2014

United Nations to Pope Francis: Change Your Doctrine

The agenda of the UN is to spread the idea that the Catholic Church is...

October 2013

October 17, 2013

Dear World, Let This Dead Baby in a Bag and Her Teen Mother Be a Lesson to You

I am writing this in a white heat, and I do not intend to change...

April 2013

April 14, 2013

Associated Press Weeps for Gosnell’s Staff

In this classic example of High Tragedy, Ms. Maryclaire Dale of the Associated Press tells...

April 14, 2013

On Kermit Gosnell and Facing Human Evil

There seems to be a suggestion that authorities did not want to look into Mr....