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2016-11-05T21:08:08-04:00

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friends don’t let divorced friends read “the remnant”

Last updated on: November 5, 2016 at 9:08 pm By Rebecca Bratten Weiss

This is slander, and bad journalism. I suppose this arises, though, from the same febrile imagination in which Pope Francis is a liberal (news flash, folks: liberalism is about individualism, not "big government"), and in which Catholics have always known "where the boundaries were, and "respected the rules of the game" (dude, read some history! Or at least some Rabelais). Read more

the remnant newspaper

2016-11-04T22:18:49-04:00

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politics is serious business – and that’s why it’s important not to let it destroy relationships

Last updated on: November 4, 2016 at 10:18 pm By Rebecca Bratten Weiss

The horror of tyranny is not that it makes everything political, but that it strips us of our freedom to be political in a healthy way. Read more

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2018-03-30T22:58:17-04:00

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Catholic Women Have Mary – So What Are We Complaining About?

Last updated on: March 30, 2018 at 10:58 pm By Rebecca Bratten Weiss

We don't have Mary. The men have her, neatly fossilized in pink-and-white statues, silent, subdued. Read more

2016-11-01T13:01:38-04:00

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the body of christ, the body politic, and the upcoming election

Last updated on: November 1, 2016 at 1:01 pm By Rebecca Bratten Weiss

But these are only dreams. They are good dreams to have, because they should leave us perpetually discontented with misrule and violence, looking askance at the rulers we actually have, eyeing their frailties with a laugh. Political caricature is the flip side to the dream of the just ruler: none of the actual leaders we have, even the best, can measure up to our longing. Read more

2016-10-27T17:12:16-04:00

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intersectional feminism and the new prolife movement

Last updated on: October 27, 2016 at 5:12 pm By Rebecca Bratten Weiss

I am not going to use this space to debate questions about hierarchies of rights, personhood or lack thereof, or whether "equality" is even possible. I am just going to hold these two beliefs here, together, and notice that neither of the existing mainstream movements that address abortion does sufficient justice to both. Read more

2016-10-20T23:36:28-04:00

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how dare those emotional, sissified women distract us with their hysterics over sexual assault

Last updated on: October 20, 2016 at 11:36 pm By Rebecca Bratten Weiss

Do you get this? Sexual assault is just being "mean and bullying." Objecting to it is just being "sissified." We really ought to control our feelings more, when men come up and grope us. Let's see that feminine genius for submission, ladies! Read more

2016-10-20T15:38:57-04:00

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should you fear a clinton presidency because of the supreme court?

Last updated on: October 20, 2016 at 3:38 pm By Guest Contributor

You think a few Supreme Court appointments will result in overturning Roe v. Wade, or Citizens United (free political speech for incorporated groups), or Obergefell v. Hodges (right to same-sex marriage), or Heller v. District of Columbia (individual right to own guns)? That’s not how it works. That’s not how any of this works. Read more

2016-10-17T13:35:42-04:00

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looks like we need a little refresher course on consent

Last updated on: October 17, 2016 at 1:35 pm By Rebecca Bratten Weiss

But do women deserve to be forcibly groped because they read a book about sexual abuse? Do you honestly think people enjoy stories because they want to experience, in reality, what the stories portray? I guess all the men who got their macho tingles from watching "Braveheart" are just longing to be hanged, drawn, and quartered. Read more

2016-10-14T10:43:51-04:00

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voting for trump for the sake of religious freedom? you’re making a mistake

Last updated on: October 14, 2016 at 10:43 am By Guest Contributor

Here’s my issue with Trump; he’s actually proposed banning a religion. He incoherently implied he might like to database them, survey them, and keep a close eye on their mosques. Read more

2016-10-08T22:46:31-04:00

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no, trump defenders, this is not ordinary male behavior

Last updated on: October 8, 2016 at 10:46 pm By Rebecca Bratten Weiss

Look, if your only two categories are "saint" and "non-saint" - and if everyone who isn't a saint can just be lumped together in one group (kids who cheat on tests, moms who hit wine-thirty an hour early, hired assassins, convicted pedophiles) - then your moral framework is just plain laughable. Aristotle, Augustine, and Aquinas are rolling their eyes in paradise. Read more

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