Catholic and Enjoying It!
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Only about 25% of the human race was baptized in the 2000 years since Pentecost and only 36% of all human beings who have lived over the past 2,000 years had a chance to hear the Gospel and be baptized. Granting fully that God is God and the Second Coming could be at any moment, still and all I think that Christians who spend overmuch time speculating and forecasting His return are, well, hoping to call it quits at 10... Read more
A reader who is a lawyer writes: Remember the “cute” Burger King snafu with its commercials triggering personal electronic devices? It was a test, apparently, of a feature they deliberately put into your cell phones. And there’s no problem with remote-control technology being used to control your life at whim, with no requirement of justification under judicial review. “We’ve arrived at a place where public institutions and figures can be precious about their privacy in ways we’re continually deciding individual... Read more
Pope Francis just upped the ante on the “debate” (so-called) over the death penalty. I use scare quotes and say “so-called” because in reality the “debate” consists of three popes, all the bishops of the world, and the rest of the civilized world vs. Communist China, North Korea, a smattering of backward Islamic Bronze Age despotisms and the reliably wrong about everything postmodern America Right and its court prophets of conservative postmodern Christians both Evangelical and Catholic. The Pope upped... Read more
Death panels, for instance. A White House death panel just declared that I do not deserve health insurance because I am a diabetic. And the best part is that I know for certain that Good Catholic and Evangelical court prophets will instantly step up to reassert the Bronze Age belief that illness is God’s punishment for sin and that those with diabetes deserve to be punished with it for their sins of gluttony. I won’t be terribly surprise to get... Read more
Since Christian Trump supporters are too busy disgracing themselves with lying defenses of the indefensible, God has given the task of telling the truth to clowns: Read more
…has been to turn them into liars more passionate and skilled in lying than he is. Case in point, I can’t tell you how many times, in the past day, I have heard Christian Trump supporters do exactly what David French, of the leftist socialist Communist National Review, describes: But — and this is vitally important — the evidence is accumulating that Trump fired James Comey in the middle of an accelerating investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election... Read more
“Libertarianism” (we are told) “opposes plunder and violence.” No. Libertarianism opposes any exercise of state power. That’s what it’s about. It is, like all heretical impulses, the exaltation of a couple of Catholic ideas (the dignity of personal responsibility, the goodness of property, and the hostility to state exercises of lawless tyranny) swollen to madness and used as weapons against the rest of the Church’s teaching on the common good and the responsibility of the state to maintain justice. Libertarianism... Read more
JPII writes: …[Christ] who, while being God, became like us in all things devoted most of the years of his life on earth to manual work at the carpenter’s bench. This circumstance constitutes in itself the most eloquent “Gospel of work”, showing that the basis for determining the value of human work is not primarily the kind of work being done but the fact that the one who is doing it is a person. John Paul II. (1981). Laborem Exercens... Read more
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