In yet another display of shameful ugliness and falsity, Lifesite News pauses from endlessly smearing the Pope to smear a good woman, a good Catholic, a good scholar and a faithful defender of the Church’s teaching on the dignity of human life from conception to natural death. Her only crime, insisting that a consistent life ethic is the Church’s actual teaching and that the disgusting use of the unborn as human shields to defend every right wing culture of death... Read more
My sense is that he’s not really comfortable with rescinding DACA, but “because of his oaths and his guests” (Mt 14:9) he picked this awkward way to placate his base of white supremacists who love this sort of mindless cruelty and who, in particular, love watching him destroy anything Obama did, even if it makes perfect sense (like a proposed regulation to screen long distance drivers for sleep apnea so they don’t fall asleep at the wheel. Obama proposed it, so... Read more
Bishop Robert Reed (not the guy from the Brady Bunch but a different Robert Reed) writes: Dear friends, The annual Telethon for The CatholicTV Network is coming up on September 15-16. Our ministry here at CatholicTV is essential not only for the homebound who depend on us for the Mass, but also for a wide and diverse audience in the age of new media. The Telethon is one of our most important fundraisers, and it allows us to continue our... Read more
A convert to Catholic faith from Islam. We crossed paths recently when I was sent the MSS of her new book: It’s a fascinating story and has a very personal connection for me. In the course of her journey, she wound up reading By What Authority?, becoming perhaps the last person on planet Earth I ever dreamed would read such a book. (When I wrote it, I had in view my own tribe of suburban American Evangelicals and never in... Read more
From Catholics, especially super duper prolife Catholics, responding to the bishops teaching anything that challenges the dogmas of FOX or the Party of Trump. Here, for instance, is notable leftwing liberal babykiller Archbishop Chaput, challenging Trump’s rescinding of DACA and making the obvious and humane plea not to threaten 800,000 innocent, hard-working Americans with the mortal sin of mass deportation to a strange land. You’d think the man had set fire to the Eucharist or helped perform an abortion from... Read more
He also, by the way, make the obvious point (battled tooth and nail by Catholic who deem themselves far better Catholics than he) that being prolife life means embracing the whole of the Church’s teaching and not just the anti-abortion bit useful to GOP poseurs: Then, in a highly significant remark, Pope Francis referred to President Donald J. Trump, saying, “I have heard it said that the president of the United States presents himself as a man who is pro-life,... Read more
Prayers are heard and grace breaks into the world yet again: Kidnapped Indian priest Fr Tom Uzhunnalil has been freed from captivity and flown to Oman, the country’s government has said. Fr Tom was kidnapped when his care home in the Yemeni city of Aden was attacked in March 2016. Four gunmen posing as relatives of one of the residents killed four Indian nuns, two Yemeni staff members, eight elderly residents and a security guard. In May this year, a... Read more
…being encouraged and promoted at kook sites like 1 Peter 5 is that Pope Francis is having the dubia cardinals rubbed out. It occasioned a reflection on my view of most conspiracy theories over at the Catholic Weekly. Here’s a taste. By the way, the captions on the photos they picked killed me. I have a congenital allergy. I am allergic to conspiracy theories. Oh, to be sure, they are great fun as premises for yarns, tales, and stories. I’m... Read more
…but he justly comes to the defense of Jacob Rees-Mogg and confronts the suggestion that Catholics should simply be banished from public life in Britain. That Rees-Mogg is being singled out for a more savage-than-usual Twittermobbing and media criticism is clear if one compares him with Muslim public figures. There are many Muslims in public life who hold similar views to his. But the likelihood of any Muslim ever appearing on the front page of the Guardian next to the word ‘bigot’... Read more
regarding the recission of DACA and all the terrible excuses being made for doing so. I agree with every word of this: So Pope Francis, in one of his freewheeling airplane interviews, has taken a shot at President Trump’s rescission of DACA, stipulating (correctly of course) that recognizing the importance of families staying together is part of being truly pro-life (read more: www.bit.ly/2y0unfU). So now of course we have to weather another rehearsal of commentary on how *Actually* Trump hasn’t done... Read more
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