Catholic and Enjoying It!
…in writing about pride, humility, and social media. Read more
…in writing about pride, humility, and social media. Read more
…and proclaim liberty to the captive. The false religion of Trumpian American Christianism hungers to devour as many souls as possible and put them in the belly of the largest gulag on planet Earth, the US prison system. Trumpian Christianists are, naturally, excited to see a vastly expanded–and increasingly brown–prison population thanks to Jeff Sessions, who is definitely not a racist and we should all be offended at the very suggestion that he is. Read more
Sez he: Would it be a sin if I sat on a jury and voted for the death penalty? Why are you asking me to sit in judgment of your soul? If so, is it a subject of grave matter, or would the maximum offense be of a venial nature? Do you think killing people who do not need to be killed is grave matter? If it is not sin, then can we take the current position which you stated... Read more
…by preaching whole Catholic faith and irking everybody. First, he elevates two seers to sainthood, but not Sister Lucia, freaking out conspiracy theorists. Then, he uses loaded language about tearing down walls to make the point that the purpose of the Church is to evangelize, not confer a blessing on xenophobic self-absorbed promethean neo-pelagians who hate evangelism and long to live in Fortress Katolicus quibbling over minor points of liturgy. Then, he irks Protestants with the ancient apostolic truth that... Read more
…to factionalist nihilist is complete for Limbaugh and for the rest of the Party of Trump. The distinction between jealousy and the mortal sin of envy is that jealousy still has the capacity for virtue. The jealous man sees his neighbor’s hot car and sets his will to go get a better car. He does something constructive. The envious man sees his neighbor’s hot car, waits till nightfall, and goes out to slash the tires and scratch the paint. He... Read more
…made me a Catholic. Convert Edwin Woodruff Tait offers one attempt to articulate one of the considerations that finally made him a Catholic–the necessity and, at the same time, the insufficiency of “Mere Christianity.” A typically thoughtful read from a typically thoughtful man. Read more
at Fr. Richard Rohr and his Immortal Diamond. By the way, Kevin has a series of videos out for homeschoolers you should check out. Here’s one of them, illustrating the pretty dang highbrow type nature of his work: Read more
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…just issued a blackmail threat to Comey: James Comey better hope that there are no "tapes" of our conversations before he starts leaking to the press! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 12, 2017 This is actually happening and Rod Dreher gives the details. Next up: Super Duper Real[TM] Christians fan out across St. Blog’s to cheer for authoritarian dictators who threaten blackmail against the people who were investigating them. Their talent for visible-from-space wrongness about everything will be more... Read more
A reader writes: Rod Dreher has a pretty good takedown of the executive order that came out of the White House recently. Between this and the AHCA, as Ross Douthat tweeted it, “This has not been a particularly good day for the Catholic case for Trump.” So far it looks like the Trump administration will in the end have given religious people an awfully costly SCOTUS appointment and possibly nothing more (other than stopping Hillary Clinton from terminating life on... Read more
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