As we saw the other day, Trump buys the right wing anti-semitic tropes that American Jews are all supposed to be “loyal” to the Netanyahu regime and that his support for that regime means he is the rightful owner of American Jewish votes. Therefore, when they refuse to support him because he is a racist anti-semite, they are “disloyal” not only to Israel (which he secretly regards as their “real” country, not America) but to him personally. So here’s the... Read more
Catholic and Enjoying It is on the air live at 7 PM Pacific (10 PM Eastern) every Monday night. Tonight, we will be chatting with Scott Stantis, cartoonist for the Chicago Tribune and author of Prickly City. You can listen here and you can call into the show at 1-866-333-6279 while we are on the air to chat with us yourself. Live radio is always an adventure. I had Scott on last Monday, but an electrical storm blew up the show... Read more
…here’s another one for your Saturday amusement: Just to be clear, birds once had teeth because evolution is real and only Fundamentalists, Catholic and Protestant, insist otherwise. Protestants at least have the excuse of ignorance of the Magisterium. Catholic Fundies have nothing. A few years back, Benedict XVI had a conference on Creation and Evolution at the Vatican. Real scientists, not the cranks from the Kolbe Center for Creation Research, were invited. It was not an oversight. Read more
So the other day, our President decided to scold America’s Jews for “disloyalty” if they voted Democrat. This ancient anti-semitic trope, typical for a man who declares Nazis “very fine people” was, of course, laughed off by his cult even as they affirmed it. “He supports Israel!” they said. “It is impossible for him to be an anti-semite! And yeah, Jews are disloyal,” they added incoherently. Yeah. About that whole “Love Israel, hate Jews” thing. It’s a thing: Do watch... Read more
So this happened about two months ago on the Feast of Peter and Paul: Patriarch Bartholomew had sent a delegation led by Archbishop Job of Telmessos to the Vatican for the feast day celebrations. After the solemn Mass, Pope Francis and Archbishop Job went down to St. Peter’s tomb under the high altar to pray. Then, the archbishop recounted, Pope Francis asked him to wait for him because he had a gift for his “brother” Patriarch Bartholomew. The pope came... Read more
He writes: Thank you so much for your recent post about the moral principle of cooperation. As a practicing bioethicist in Catholic Health Care it’s comforting to know there are bloggers with such mass appeal who are able to provide such important clarification about what the Church actually teaches. This principle is so important in today’s world of social media where if someone disagrees with you on one thing you experience intense pressure to cut off all ties with that... Read more
This is another typically fine piece from Where Peter Is: a website dedicated to the radical proposition that the Pope is neither a heretic nor a monster: In my last article, I tried to illustrate how the nuanced concept of silence appears throughout Francis’ corpus of theological thought. One question remains yet unanswered, however: why has Francis chosen silence as the venue to address his critics, namely the dubia and Archbishop Viganò’s testimony? With this in mind, I would like to recall... Read more
They say: Thank you for getting back to me with this reply. Although I appreciate all of it, two things in it stand out in particular: While the ChurchMilitant crowd does call out sin in the hierarchy, it fundamentally has a false view that the problem can be fixed by replacing everyone without conservative views or who is gay. So many of those implicated in the abuse crises as enabling abusers, like the Diocese of Lincoln or Cardinal Hoyos, were... Read more
to entertain us with Hillaire Belloc Cautionary Tales: Read more
They write: I want to start by saying the I appreciate your writings, especially on poverty. I was coming to the conclusion that American churches alignment with Ayn Randian economics was related to “faith alone”/antinomian theology, which claims that the Christian life ought to require no sacrifice, and you expressed these thoughts very well in your books and blogging. Some protestants have also come around to that idea, as articulated in David Platt’s book. I’m unfamiliar with Platt, but I... Read more
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