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“Pope Francis Says All Who Do Good are Redeemed – Atheists Included” It takes some doing to get so many layers of complicated errors all folded into 11 words, but if anybody can do it, it’s HuffPo. Let’s unpack this elaborate confection of blunders. 1. The first blunder is that what the Pope said–what he [...]
However, because the sixteen year old he murdered without evidence, arrest, trial, judge, jury or verdict on his unilateral will alone was related to some other guy he also ordered dead, and they both have foreign-sounding names, it’s all fine. When the President does it, it’s not illegal. And when the President decides that acts [...]
So a couple of weeks ago, Simcha Fisher made the commonsense observation that if you deny or make excuses for the murder of millions of Jews by the Nazis (you know, “It never happened and besides they deserved it”, that sort of thing), then you have parted company with all decency and sanity. Naturally, this [...]
Looks like I may have been wrong here. Here’s the skinny on what really seems to be going on: Big news from the Vatican—this time because of Pope Francis’s recent letter to South American bishops denouncing communion for pro-abortion politicians. Here’s the lead from an article published by LifeNews.com: A letter Pope Francis sent to [...]
This is pretty much why the Internet was invented. I dedicate this to Victor Lams, who is absolutely guaranteed to like this more than anything J.J. Abrams will ever do with the franchise:
A reader writes: A local family’s little girl (2yr. old) has ingested lamp oil and aspirated it into her lungs. She is being flown to Johns Hopkins as soon as they can. Please pray for little Marianna and her family! Father, hear our prayer for her complete recovery and healing. Give her caregivers wisdom, compassion, grace, [...]
May I just say that after careful consideration of his photo for several weeks, …I think fellow Patheosi Greg Popcak is the clear frontrunner for Next Bond Supervillain. All he really needs is a huge mahogany desk, an imposing high-backed rich Corinthian Leather chair, a slender cat to stroke and wife Lisa standing next to [...]
Please keep the prayers coming for our home town of Moore, OK. This is the 2nd time our immediate family has dodged a bullet of an F5/EF5 tornado. Our community is shaken, but strong! People do not understand how resilient our community is in the face of tragic events. We need prayers of hope at [...]
Many people ask how they can become a rich and powerful writer like myself, tapping into the untold wealth to be found in the glittering and high octane world of Catholic scribbling. Here are a few tips for becoming a little bit like the glamorous A list celebrity you see before you, known to literally [...]
is “Why are you reading me when you could be reading Marc Barnes?” Here, let me help cut that Gordian Knot right now. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the inimitable Marc Barnes, who just can’t write badly. As Dan Savage might say: It gets better.
Once I built a syllo- gism strong! Made it stand for all time Once I built a Syllo- gism strong Brother, can you paradigm?
in Vimeo’s Staff Pick of the Day. It’s a short, very beautiful, film on his Catholic coffin-making apostolate. Marcus is the real deal. He lives on Vashon Island near Seattle with his fambly. We will be hanging out with them (and a bunch of other friends and fambly) this weekend when we all head to [...]
Bwahahahahaha! Renowned author Dan Brown woke up in his luxurious four-poster bed in his expensive $10 million house – and immediately he felt angry. Most people would have thought that the 48-year-old man had no reason to be angry. After all, the famous writer had a new book coming out. But that was the problem. [...]
When you arrogate to yourself the power to secretly and unilaterally decree the murder of anybody on planet earth you think needs killin’, including American citizens, and when you also arrogate to yourself the kingly power to detain people without charge for time and eternity, you start to get delusional. And when you start to [...]
Wow. Katherine Jefferts-Shori, muckety muck of the Thing that Used to be Episcopalianism, offers this breathtaking and blind reading of the story of Paul’s exorcism of the slave girl in Acts 16:16-34: “There are some remarkable examples of that kind of blindness in the readings we heard this morning, and slavery is wrapped up in [...]
He’s fine. So that’s the good news. Sadly, at least 51 people are dead and most of them are children killed when the tornado (according to Fr. Shane, perhaps the largest one ever recorded) struck the elementary school they were in. The tornado was two and a half miles wide (!!!) and remained on the [...]
As should be obvious, I have a number of very grave concerns about the Obama Administration. Allow me to enumerate them: 1. Its absolute and total love affair with abortion, up to and including support for murdering children who have already been born. In this, it expresses the sole non-negotiable core value of the Dem [...]
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