I reckon myself Catholic these days but no longer identify with what is commonly called the “prolife movement” since that movement primarily exists to use the unborn as human shields for a host of evils it really exists to defend. I am happy to make common cause with people who espouse a consistent life ethic. I still, as a Catholic, believe that life is sacred from conception to natural death (unlike the bulk of the prolife movement.) That’s why I... 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 my friend, the wonderful Rod Bennett,... Read more
…I thought it would be good to hear another amazing history (this time of Japan) from the amazing Bill Wurtz: Now I know about the history of Japan, sort of. And so do you. Depending on how much you knew before, you are either smarter or dumber about that history. I’m definitely way smarter, and possibly dumber too if I’m smart about things that didn’t actually happen. You decide. Read more
Man, did Rim of the World suck. The basic elevator pitch premise is four kids at summer camp have to save the world from an alien invasion. It’s a super lame attempt to cash in on Stranger Things that doesn’t even try to make sense while using every “misfit kids become BFFs at the mall” trope in the book while stealing from Independence Day *and* Jurassic Park, all concluding with “kid overcomes fears” feelgood ending. Oh, and the Black Kid... Read more
“In June of 1775, the Continental Congress created a unified Army out of the Revolutionary Forces encamped around Boston and New York, and named after the great George Washington, commander in chief. The Continental Army suffered a bitter winter of Valley Forge, found glory across the waters of the Delaware and seized victory from Cornwallis of Yorktown. “Our Army manned the air, it rammed the ramparts, it took over the airports, it did everything it had to do, and at... Read more
We talked Spiderman (both Into the Spiderverse and Far from Home) and Avengers: Endgame, as well as discussing his thoughts on secular apocalypses. We also spent some time on the storied career of Franco Zeffirelli and the fascinating paradoxes of a man who was a great artist, a deeply committed and believing Catholic, a political conservative, and an open life-long homosexual (he preferred that descriptor over “gay”). Steve was his typical thoughtful and insightful self. Give it a listen. We... Read more
I wrote this nearly 20 years ago on the occasion of the Fourth of July. I still believe as I still believe everthing I believed (theologically) 20 years ago. What I never imagined then was that the people who talked about accepting the whole teaching of the Church and not being cafeteria Catholics would be the ones both leading the charge to attack the Holy Father and make war on most of the Church’s social doctrine as well as championing... Read more
It re-launched June 17. Tim Putnam is the host of Outside the Walls radio program, and serves Holy Rosary parish in Edmonds, Washington as the director of Faith Formation and Evangelization. He and his wife are expecting their eighth child in September. We had a pretty wide-ranging conversation and we had fun. Give it a listen. Read more
Making three year olds act as their own attorney in our immigration kangaroo courts. Faking outrage on behalf of allegedly “insulted Jews” that Trump’s concentration camps for children are called “concentration camps”. This just got a lot harder, but they will continue to maintain that lie because lying for Trump is what “prolife” Christianist Trump supporters do instead of defending the unborn. Attacking desperate people for drowning. Lying that a secret Border Patrol Facebook group half these size of the... 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 the delightful Deacon Steven Greydanus, host... Read more
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