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December 03, 2023

One More Word on the Downfall of Church Militant

I want to make one more statement about the ongoing dumpster fire at Church...

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March 07, 2023

A Word on John Paul the Second

We need to talk about Pope John Paul the Second. In case you haven't heard,...

February 2021

February 05, 2021

Catholic University of America Should Not Host Abby Johnson

I have been saying "I need to speak about Abby Johnson one last time"...

December 2020

December 09, 2020

Christians Have A Responsibility During the Eviction Crisis

Today, on social media, I saw a short video that is a grim sign of...

December 07, 2020

Lisa Montgomery’s Upcoming Execution is an Atrocity

You have probably heard by now that the United States government is about to perform...

November 2020

November 20, 2020

The Death Penalty is Wrong Because Killing is Wrong

Last night, the United States committed another federal execution. Orlando Hall, a rapist and murderer,...

November 16, 2020

No, Christmas is Not Canceled

The War on Christmas seems to get earlier every year. It seems that today, a...

November 10, 2020

The McCarrick Report: The Vatican Owns Up To Enabling Abuse

Today, we finally get to see the long-awaited McCarrick Report, a massive public document...

November 08, 2020

A Time To Heal, A Time To Build

Today is the day we've waited for. I woke up to find that, after an...

September 2020

September 13, 2020

While We Worried About Imaginary Children

Over the weekend, it's been revealed that our nation has expelled 8,800 unaccompanied minors...

September 10, 2020

As You Sow

I picked corn yesterday. Corn is a plant that only yields if you plant a...

August 2020

August 15, 2020

Pavone’s Tweet Is Sacrilege and Bishops Must Act

I was going to write about the Virgin Mary today. It's the Solemnity of the...

July 2020

July 13, 2020

Where Do You Go When You Go To Mass?

I wanted to be with Jesus. Since the COVID emergency began, I've had a...

June 2020

June 25, 2020

My Response to Abby Johnson’s Shocking Racist Manifesto

I apologize ahead of time for the length of this post; as you'll see, a...

June 07, 2020

The Price of Ordinary

Columbus, Ohio, is an ordinary place. I'm not using "ordinary" as a pejorative there; I'm...

June 05, 2020

George Floyd and the American Apocalypse

A friend on social media reminded me that the word "apocalypse" is Greek for "revelation."...

May 2020

May 19, 2020

Norma McCorvey’s “Deathbed Confession” Reveals A Decades-Old Con

When I started blogging, I never planned to blog about the giants of the pro-life...

April 2020

April 22, 2020

Frank Pavone Throws Down The Gauntlet, And I Respond

I cannot stand writing about Frank Pavone. I don't even like to think about him....

April 17, 2020

Spy Wednesday

I came downtown last week on Spy Wednesday, looking a bit like a spy myself...

March 2020

March 26, 2020

First Things and The Pro-Life Movement’s Shocking Double Standard

When I was a teenager, I was homeschooled in a deeply conservative, deeply pro-life homeschool...

March 23, 2020

A Disastrous Sentimentalism Indeed: First Things’s R. R. Reno Jumps the Shark

This afternoon I came across an article by R. R. Reno, the supposedly pro-life editor...

March 10, 2020

The Tower of Power Abuse Case Comes to a Close, but What Next?

As some of you might recall, I've been following the case of Pastor Everett...

February 2020

February 20, 2020

Fifty Years Ago, If a Guy Said to a Girl…

I don't usually comment on "The Transformed Wife," whose real name is Lori Alexander. I...

February 14, 2020

Querida Amazonia: It Turns out that the Pope is Catholic

For weeks, I have watched public Catholics freak out about whether the Pope was going...

January 2020

January 28, 2020

Nothing New Under the Stars

It started innocently enough. EWTN's Raymond Arroyo, who apparently had no pressing news stories to...

January 22, 2020

Why the Legionaries of Christ Cannot be Reformed

No doubt many of you have read the shocking article in the Associated Press,...

January 14, 2020

Benedict, Sarah, Francis, and the Case of the Exploding Pope

Catholic social media erupted that Cardinal Sarah & Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI were publishing a...

January 09, 2020

I Voted Democrat Because I Am Pro-Life

They told me I had to vote Republican, because Republicans were pro-life. For awhile,...

January 07, 2020

Blackbird, Regnum Christi, and the Legacy of Spiritual Abuse

Shortly before Christmas, I wrote a little about the Legionaries of Christ's new report, coming...

January 04, 2020

A Catholic Response to Trump’s Iran Threat

I want to say a few words about the president of the United State's recent...