…to rule in favor of Planned Parenthood. So, to recap: Our abortion regime is 100% the creation of the GOP. The state of California legalized it in 1967, courtesy of Governor Ronald Reagan. When Roe was decided, all the Democratic appointees could have been using the loo and it would have still been made the law of the land thanks to GOP appointees like Harry Blackmun, who wrote it. Prolife conservative suckers dreaming of the Great Rosy Dawn when there... Read more
Something rather amazing for the last day of Hanukkah. Read more
Mother! whose virgin bosom was uncrost With the least shade of thought to sin allied; Woman! above all women glorified, Our tainted nature’s solitary boast; Purer than foam on central ocean tost; Brighter than eastern skies at daybreak strewn With fancied roses, than the unblemished moon Before her wane begins on heaven’s blue coast; Thy Image falls to earth. Yet some, I ween, Not unforgiven the suppliant knee might bend, As to a visible Power, in which did blend All... Read more
My second in a series on the greatest saint of the Old Covenant: John the Baptist baptised. That is the core fact we know about him. Aside from the occasional painting of his head on a platter, every piece of artwork we have shows him baptising people. This is one of the curious features of the sparseness of both the biblical narrative and of religious iconography. Later figures will be shown in a more 3D way. We will see Abraham... Read more
Lupus is an autoimmune disorder in which the systems that are supposed to defend the body from pathogens start regarding the body as a pathogen and attacking it. A subculture that now regards the Holy Father as the greatest enemy of the faith on planet earth while cheering for this as well as lying to defend sawing an innocent man to death so that we can help starve 14 million Yemeni to death, and shouting to shoot the Holy Family... Read more
She’s perfectly right, of course. Anybody with a drop of Jewish is right to be worried. And any Catholic not actively fighting this filth should be ashamed. Antisemitism is in the Church. Catholics who aren’t antisemites are obligated to reject even the smallest hint of it, whenever it turns up. Even if it was unintentional; even if it seems minor; even if it seems to gentiles like an isolated, meaningless incident that can be explained away if everyone would just... Read more
I’m skeptical that Watts really grokked Chesterton and think Chesterton would have vehemently disagreed that gnosis is about wonder. (Gnosis is about master of secret knowledge. And one of the by-products of that is the destruction of wonder. When you pull a thing apart to see how it works, the inveterate response of human beings is, “Oh that! We know how *that* works. Nothing amazing about *that*.” The heart of gnosis is not wonder, but pride. I understand the Hidden... Read more
Raymond Arroyo (pictured here failing yet another audition for FOX News, where he dreams of working full-time)… (I love the way Ingraham just abandons him to his fate–a finely honed skill for FOX “journalists” when their colleagues fall.) Anyway… Raymond Arroyo got chewed out by South African Cardinal Wilfrid Napier: Should read: “The World Over” hosted by Raymond Aroyo is like a throwback to the 1960’s & 70’s, when Ian Paisley & his ilk fulminated against Catholic Faith in general,... Read more
While the Christianist cult of Reactionary Catholics congeals into an Inquisition bent on purging and kicking out everybody in the Church, including the pope, actual Catholics are laboring to evangelize. Here’s a rather startling example of the most visible Catholic evangelist in the secular sphere: One of the reasons the pope is so deeply hated by Reactionaries is precisely that his entire pontificate can be summarized in the words, “He has preached good news to the poor.” Everything about that... Read more
In which I apply my mighty BA in English to the figure of John the Baptist for a four-part series in celebration of Advent: The season of Advent is bound up with the figure of John the Baptist or (as he is known in the East) John the Forerunner. He is a curious figure if, like me, you do not originally hail from the Christian tradition and just come at the gospel story fresh, not taking him for granted. Why... Read more
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