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April 2016

April 30, 2016

Interacting With the Spaemann Interview on Amoris Laetitia

Dr. Robert Spaemann, a retired German philosophy professor---why is it always the Germans?---who was an...

April 27, 2016

Pope Agrees to Discuss Infallibility With Hans Kung. This is What it Means.

April 25, 2016

Does Amoris Laetitia Tell Us Not to Judge?

Note: This is Part 2 of a five-part response to Dr. E. Christian Brugger's critique...

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 16, 2016

Pope Francis Gives Another Interview; False Reporting at 1 Vader 5 Begins Forthwith

Mr. Steve Skojec, of 1 Vader 5 infamy (he calls it 1 Peter 5; he's...

April 14, 2016

“Integrating Weakness”: Chapter 8 of Amoris Laetitia

In Chapter 8 of Amoris Laetitia, Pope Francis speaks of the "law of gradualness"; John...

April 11, 2016

Things Pope Francis Says in Amoris Laetitia That Few Will Mention

Everybody's talkin' 'bout communion, confusion, disunion, second union, this union, that union, revolution, evolution Let's...

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 08, 2016

The Most Important Section of Amoris Laetitia

Paragraph 7 of Amoris Laetitia is the most important section, and it tells us ...But...

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 06, 2016

What You Need To Know Before Friday’s Release of Amoris Laetitia

The Vatican is publishing a papal exhortation on Friday. *** If you like the content...

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 25, 2016

Okay, Pope Francis, I’m Confused

The overall gist of the pope’s response seems to be: Abortion is always and everywhere...

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 08, 2016

Does the Pope Really Think Jesus Sinned?

Pope Francis has, once more, gotten himself in trouble with those bloggers he usually gets...

September 2015

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...

January 2015

January 27, 2015

A Frustrated Steve Hays Resorts to Ad Hominem, More Haze

This post is the latest in a discussion between myself and Reformed “apologist” Steve "Purple"...

January 26, 2015

Scuse Me While I Refute This Guy: A Reply to Steve “Purple” Hays on the Pope, NFP, and C-Sections

Steve "Purple" Hays of Failablogue (he calls it Triablogue, for duplicitous reasons of his own)...

January 23, 2015

In Attack on Pope, Polemical Rogue John Bugay Makes Crude Joke About Multiple Orgasms. (You Read That Right.)

There is no cesspool so foul that John Bugay will not jump into it with...

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...

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 25, 2014

The Pope, an Anglican, and a Pentecostal Walk Into a Bar; Or, the State of Ecumenism at the Present Time

So the pope recorded a video on an iPhone for a meeting of Pentecostals led...

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...

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 20, 2014

Through the Year With Pope Francis

With all the so-called shocking quotations from the pope, which have been making a mad...