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…and you are left with what? All genuine law (as distinct from arbitrary force or tyranny) is nothing but codified morality. Read more
…and you are left with what? All genuine law (as distinct from arbitrary force or tyranny) is nothing but codified morality. Read more
The latest in my series on the death penalty for Catholic Weekly. Read more
A reader writes: Hi Mark. A dear friend of mine has been unconscious in the ICU for 20+ hours. Please storm Heaven that his earthly life does not end. This is an emergency. Thank you. Father, hear our prayer for this man’s complete healing in body, soul, mind, and spirit. Give his caregivers grace, compassion, wisdom, counsel, knowledge, understanding, skill, creativity, insight and the proper technology to assist in that healing and give him and all who love him grace,... Read more
He ripped off St. Jude’s. Today’s filthy disgusting thing for “prolife” Christian liars for Jesus to defend instead of the unborn or the gospel. There is no bottom with this guy. And there is no bottom for his tribe of supporters–including the Super Duper Best Christians of All Time who continue to back him because they cannot, in their towering pride, admit error. They defend it all and they will continue to do so until they personally experience his cruelty... Read more
Help me out here. Aside from pelvic stuff and a super-distorted view of subsidiarity read to mean “I get to keep my stuff and the state can go to hell” what does Party of Trump Catholicism have to say about Catholic social doctrine or any of the Church’s teaching on the second greatest commandment that is is not dismissive or intensely hostile? Anyone? Bueller? Please feel free to answer in the comboxes. Read more
…is that he is too stupid to keep his mouth shut about his Travel Ban and just gives the courts stopping him the ammo they need: Today’s pack of Trumpian lies for “prolife” Christian Trump defenders to defend instead of the unborn. Kellyanne Conway, consummate Catholic liar for Jesus, stains the gospel with her continual and transparent dishonesty. Read more
talking about the San Juan Islands, the Pig War, Pickett’s Charge, Hillaire Belloc and assorted gallimaufreys: Read more
“If we wish to build true peace, how can we separate, or even set at odds, the protection of the environment and the protection of human life, including the life of the unborn?” — Pope Benedict XVI, Address to the Diplomatic Corps, in 11/01/2010 I wish I had been. The use of the unborn as human shields to defend every culture of death priority of the Right is the biggest lie they tell. Read more
Ezra Klein remarks on this piece about the sheer bullshit that flows in an endless stream from the mouth of Donald Trump and from the pack of professional liars who work for him and for the Right Wing Noise Machine: Trump’s tactics, in a different context, would be understood as typical authoritarian propaganda — regimes make aides and supporters propound nonsense as a test of loyalty. The United States isn’t the kind of place where that can work. There’s a... Read more
…and does the standard Catholic thing of making use of the best of human knowledge in navigating the signs of the times, the experts on Prudential Judgment in the Right Wing Noise Machine say “Shut up! What do you know about climate science?” Strangely, they do not say that when he makes remarks pertaining to embryology and gynecology in Humanae Vitae, nor when he talks about things pertaining to evolutionary science in Humani Generis. Nor do they deem St. Thomas... Read more
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