…with Jon Sweeney, the author of The Saint vs. the Scholar, about the fight between Bernard of Clairvaux and Peter Abelard, on Connecting the Dots. I’ll post it when it’s ready to go! Read more
…with Jon Sweeney, the author of The Saint vs. the Scholar, about the fight between Bernard of Clairvaux and Peter Abelard, on Connecting the Dots. I’ll post it when it’s ready to go! Read more
“Love of enemy is the nucleus of the Christian revolution.” – Benedict XVI Read more
…on Mercy and the Denial of Death: Read more
Had a typical conversation with a Libertarian about the question of health care as a right. He was a typical Catholic dissenter from the Church’s teaching on this point, offering the typical Libertarian falsehoods like: The reason this is a lie is that health care is not charity. It is, as the Church teaches, a right. The Libertarian lie in reply to this is twofold. There can be no right to something that requires the property and labor of another... Read more
“Scientism” is the position that Science can solve all problems, or that all problems are empirical. Philosophically, it is mostly associated with the strongest statements made by the logical positivism movement, which mostly died out in the mid 20th century. Culturally, however, it is stronger than ever, and is closely tied to movements like the so-called “New Atheists”. These newer, more naive forms of Scientism, also have a strong tendency to call philosophy “a big waste of time”, “pointless arguing”,... Read more
…for parent’s enduring a tragedy: Ann and Gareth are dear friends from college who are currently living every parents worst nightmare. They have lost their precious girl, Evie, and they need our help. FUS friends, please share and help if you are able. Read more
Particularly when the men in question have been so wrong about so much so many times for so long that only a fool would trust their prudence over that of a cocker spaniel’s, much less the Church’s. The last of my series on the Death Penalty at The Catholic Weekly. Read more
…forbids media from recording answers to questions directed at the Press Secretary. This is Soviet tyranny. And the lunatics most vocal about supporting this lying, corrupt, incompetent crook are Good Prolife Conservative Christian Trump supporters, who will happily burn the Constitution and destroy the foundation of Republic in their fanatical belief that everything–including annihilating freedom of the press–is worth the fantasy of overturning Roe. 35% of the American electorate are now essentially enemies of the American constitutional order and partisans... Read more
Examples: The Beatitudeles, Gladys Knight and the Pyx, Ignatius Pop People on Facebook lost their minds with this came up with hundreds of brilliant names. Knock yerselves out. Read more
Allows Fetus to Stay Eye of the Tiber does Swift proud: Prolife judge Anthony Gabel ordered Fairuz Naoum, a pregnant illegal immigrant, to be deported back to Iraq last week, just moments before giving her unborn baby permission to stay in the United States. Gabel told EOTT this morning that 27-year-old Naoum, a Christian living in Dearborn, Michigan, would have to leave the country immediately, though her deportation back to her native Iraq meant a possible death sentence. “I understand... Read more
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