by Word on Fire. It’s not everyday you meet a Chestertonian who has acted in Sleepy Hollow and the Vampire Diaries. Read more
by Word on Fire. It’s not everyday you meet a Chestertonian who has acted in Sleepy Hollow and the Vampire Diaries. Read more
And then, Catholics for Malevolent Narcissists sets to work everywhere on the blogosphere to point out that *nowhere* in the Catechism, nor in a single papal or conciliar document in the entire history of the Church do the words, “The rich are absolutely forbidden to harvest the organs of the poor at will or hunt them for sport”. This is followed by *years* of closely reasoned argumentation showing that Catholics who oppose this are liberal peace and justice CINO’s whose... Read more
The Church teaches that it is. Multiple magisterial sources reiterate this fact. Therefore some guy with a keyboard named Kevin Williamson is in error when he denies that proposition. I’m hearing several popular libertarian dogmas deny this fact. The first is the claim that since health care requires other people’s property and labor there can be no right to it. The folly of this argument is that, as Ayn Rand saw, if we grant that premise that means that there... Read more
My friend Andrew March (a Protestant podcaster and prolife guy with a devotion to the Blessed Mother) had a really great conversation about a wide range of things and wound up talking about Our Lady. He and Irenaeus and the gospel writers have a lot to talk about. He’s one of the most Catholic Protestants I’ve talked to in ages. Check it out. We had a ton of fun: Also, check out his podcast: Cell53. Read more
“Now is not the time to decide what to do or how to do it; now is the time to do it.” – Rep. Kevin McCarthy, demonstrating the postmodern nihilist void in the heart and mind of the Thing that Used to be Conservatism Chesterton could get a whole book or two out of laughing at that quote. Read more
Your thing to make your head asplode for today. Read more
…of how you and those you love are being screwed royally by the House GOP’s Kill the Weak and Sick bill are here. It of course remains to be seen how the Senate will make that bill even more cruel. Meanwhile, virtually every health, cancer, heart disease, rare illness, children’s and old age group in the country–not to mention the bishops–is condemning this rushed act of attempted murder against the weak and ill. Only one demographic is predictably thrilled: monomaniac... Read more
…enjoys muttering cryptic half-sentences just to mess with people’s heads. Read more
From Senator Sherrod Brown, here is what the Kill the Weak Act passed by the super duper prolifiest party of Trump yesterday calls a pre-existing condition that you can be screwed out of coverage for: From Senator Sherrod Brown (Ohio), a list of pre-existing conditions with coverage lost under #Trumpcare: AIDS/HIV, acid reflux, acne, ADD, addiction, Alzheimer’s/dementia, anemia, aneurysm, angioplasty, anorexia, anxiety, arrhythmia, arthritis, asthma, atrial fibrillation, autism, bariatric surgery, basal cell carcinoma, ipolar disorder, blood clot, breast cancer, bulimia,... Read more
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