This report was just released by the Office of the Inspector General and the photos included in that report are just incredible. Scroll down. Photo after photo that will just stun and horrify you. 82 men jammed into a room built for 41 so it is *standing room only*. SOME ADULTS HAVE BEEN IN STANDING ROOM ONLY CONDITIONS FOR A WEEK!!! This isn’t about politics. This is about the most fundamental of human rights. “The Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS)... Read more
Daniel Amiri at Where Peter Is has a nice piece up on a vital subject in a world where liars now abound, and no where more intensely than in the Trumpian Cult of Lies and its base of Christianists bent on telling lies for Jesus: Where do you get your news? It’s funny how the answer to a seemingly innocent question can reveal so much about the person we’re talking to. Whether you read Vox, The Atlantic, or National Review;... Read more
Livius tells us this story: Pilate, being sent by Tiberius as prefect to Judaea, introduced into Jerusalem by night and under cover the effigies of Caesar which are called standards. This proceeding, when day broke, aroused immense excitement among the Jews; those on the spot were in consternation, considering their laws to have been trampled under foot, as those laws permit no image to be erected in the city; while the indignation of the townspeople stirred the countryfolk, who flocked... Read more
Catholic and Enjoying It will be on the air live at 7 PM Pacific (10 PM Eastern) every Monday night. We will be discussing life, the universe, and everything from a Catholic perspective and giving ourselves up to general jollification for the hour. You can listen here and you can call into the show at 1-866-333-6279 while we are on the air to yak, argue, demand I sing, or sing yourself. My guest tonight is Nina Butorac, author of Sacramental Letters. Sacramental... Read more
I don’t really believe they find him “confusing”. I think they just don’t want to listen to him. Everything you need to know about him is summed up in the words, “He has preached good news to the poor.” His mortal enemies are people who either a) dislike the Church’s teaching on our duty to the poor or b) dislike evangelism because it brings people they regard as riffraff into a Church they want to make an accessory to their... Read more
Fascinating to watch him breaking with the dim shallow atheism of Dawkins and the pop secular left in Britain: Still plenty for a Catholic to argue with here, of course. But still interesting to watch him feeling his way around the contours of reality in the half-light and work things out. I once held in my hands C.S. Lewis’ personal copy of Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason and read his marginal scribblings made circa 1924. You could see him doing... Read more
Convinced, in case you have not heard of it, is a film profiling a bunch of converts to the Catholic faith, including Yr Obdt. Svt. Here’s the trailer: Here’s a clip of me chatting about the trustworthiness of the gospels: Don is a really nice guy. He’s a convert himself from Evangelicalism who decided he wanted to get in contact with a bunch of other converts back in 2013-2014 and interview them, so that’s what he did. He rang me... Read more
It’s not the stupid airport gaffe. It’s not even the massive historical illiteracy. It’s the pagan Mars worship. Frum writes: As Trump retold the story of the Pacific War, he said this: “Nobody could beat us. Nobody could come close.” When he paid tribute to the Air Force, he said this: “As President Roosevelt said, the Nazis built a fortress around Europe, ‘but forgot to put a roof on it.’ So we crushed them all from the air.” He added:... Read more
He published it over at the Register. Here’s a good chunk of it: Jesus’ Hard Words About Family Ties The fact is, Jesus often seems to downplay family ties, including filial piety. Later in Luke’s Gospel he says: If any one comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple. Love your enemies but hate your parents and... Read more
…is that they want to outlaw abortion. I want to end it. What’s that mean? It means, among other things that I want to do things that will actually reduce the rate of abortion, while much of the prolife movement is hell bent for leather on doing symbolic crap that makes them feel good while actually increasing the rate of abortion. So, for instance, when somebody who is actually prolife reads that the beloved gag rule is linked to a... Read more
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