A reader wrote me a few weeks back, but I’ve only now gotten to my mail: I thought of you during the first reading at Mass this past Sunday, specifically the following words: “Now when they heard this, they were cut to the heart, and they asked Peter and the other apostles, ‘What are we to do, my brothers?’ Peter [said] to them, ‘Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness... Read more
He writes: The good news is that it turns out there are still some over-the-top horrifically offensive things you can say that can apparently get you fired from Breitbart, such as: British settlers built the USA. "Slaves” built the country much as cows “built” McDonald’s. Amateur… https://t.co/bOIXSpbpxB — Katie McHugh Read more
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A typically perceptive essay from Leah Libresco Sargeant. Read more
David Frum got canned by FOX for refusing to mouth the party line of the Party of Trump and has been a loud voice warning of the dangers of this autocratic con man. The (((Alt Right))) hates him because, you know, Jewish. But he’s been a prescient critic of the menace Trump and his party of thugs, wilful ignorami, and bigots poses: Read more
…on a seven year old special needs boy in a Dallas sch0ol. Showing the child who is boss, he was tased, choked, bruised, and handcuffed. Real men. Warrior cops are trained to make war on a subject population. Guardian cops are trained to guard citizens of a free republic. Guardian cops, not warrior cops are what we need. Warrior cops are what we increasingly are getting as a small oligarchy organizes to protect themselves from a subject population they regard... Read more
…are the people Conservative Catholics warned you against 12 years ago. We are building a dictatorship of relativism that does not recognize anything as definitive and whose ultimate goal consists solely of one’s own ego and desires. – Pope Benedict XVI, 2005 And the bizarre thing is that many of the people who most passionately claimed fidelity to the gospel this great man taught are now the most passionate defenders and champions of a man who embodies everything Benedict was... Read more
A reader writes: Hey, Mark, what happened to your former climate-change skepticism (or perhaps suspension of belief)? Frankly, the less the Church says about things like climate change, the better. It’s way outside the competence of the Magisterium, and way outside the deposit of faith. It is now an article of the Catholic Faith that there *is* anthropogenic global warming and that Catholics are bound in conscience to support the Paris Accord? For me, it is what it has always... Read more
Like Chesterton, he pays generous compliment to Rod Dreher’s Benedict Option before (like me) disagreeing with it as fundamentally a theology of retreat and abandonment of the field instead what the gospel commands: the transformation of the world in Christ. What does he recommend instead? Work to become your own employer rather than someone else’s employee. Whenever you can, buy local. Start your own school with like-minded parents who understand that there is nothing more important than the souls of... Read more
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