…and our hearts are restless till they rest in you. – St. Augustine A brilliant animator is asking the question to which Christ remains the answer: The tragedy for the foreseeable future is that, in the West, Christianism is the loud and temporarily dominant gospel of antichrist which is 100% oriented toward turning people away from Jesus Christ in its whoredom to a false gospel of Mammon, Mars, Venus and Narcissus. It is a feeder belt designed to deliver souls... Read more
Here’s the first in a little series I’ve written for The Catholic Weekly about how to navigate the Church’s moral teaching in a time when many have lost confidence in the Magisterium. Here’s a taste. Stay tuned. There are three more in the series: Here’s a little passage from Lumen Gentium you don’t hear much about these days: Bishops, teaching in communion with the Roman Pontiff, are to be respected by all as witnesses to divine and Catholic truth. In matters of... Read more
This is a basic article of the faith. He that loveth not, knoweth not God, for God is love, says St. John. Conversely, Christianism, which is a diabolical parody of the gospel centered around the worship of Donald Trump is bound together by cruelty: The Trump era is such a whirlwind of cruelty that it can be hard to keep track. This week alone, the news broke that the Trump administration was seeking to ethnically cleanse more than 193,000 American children of... Read more
Uncle Screwtape talks about the uses of humor in hell: My dear Wormwood, Everything is clearly going very well. I am specially glad to hear that the two new friends have now made him acquainted with their whole set. All these, as I find from the record office, are thoroughly reliable people; steady, consistent scoffers and worldlings who without any spectacular crimes are progressing quietly and comfortably towards Our Father’s house. You speak of their being great laughers. I trust... Read more
When I was growing up in the Family Shea I was taught that somewhere back there in the family tree was not merely a Blackfoot Indian, but a Blackfoot Indian princess. I did not question this particularly, being 12 or so, but neither did I dwell on it much. It was a factoid, one of those things you squirrel away in memory but which you don’t think about since… so what? It did occur to me to wonder what an... Read more
…on the dogged dishonesty of the Francis Haters: Viganò claimed that Benedict imposed canonical sanctions on McCarrick, which Francis lifted. Viganò told us to ask Ouellet about it. Ouellet said it is false that there were canonical sanctions on McCarrick. The dissenter’s conclusion: Ouellet has just proven there were canonical sanctions! Pedro Gabriel’s take on this Orwellian spin: “Instead of acknowledging the huge hole Ouellet’s letter punches on Viganò’s testimony (a death blow in my opinion), anti-Francis critics have, unsurprisingly,... Read more
C.S. Lewis remarks on the way in which our dislike of somebody can take on a hellish momentum: “Suppose one reads a story of filthy atrocities in the paper. Then suppose that something turns up suggesting that the story might not be quite true, or not quite so bad as it was made out. Is one’s first feeling, ‘Thank God, even they aren’t quite so bad as that,’ or is it a feeling of disappointment, and even a determination to... Read more
Here’s a taste of a piece I wrote on Pope Paul VI, who will be canonized a saint tomorrow, along with Oscar Romero, the great Salvadoran martyr (to American brutalist policy in Central America, but that’s another story): On October 14, 2018, Pope Francis will canonize Pope Paul VI, along with martyred Salvadoran Archbishop Oscar Romero. Pope Paul VI, despite his enormous impact on the Church—the most obvious being the reform of the liturgy brought about by the Second Vatican... Read more
Signorelli: Antichrist and the Devil A Christianist is an adherent of a political cultus centered on Donald Trump and informed by a magisterium of FOX, right wing talk radio and right wing social media, which uses Christian imagery and jargon in the service of a diabolical antichrist gospel of racism, war, torture apologetics, gun fanaticism, misogyny, mammon worship, cruelty to the least of these and hatred of both science and orthodox Christian belief. One of its defining features is a... Read more
The Washington State Supreme Court just ruled the death penalty unconstitutional, thereby abolishing the death penalty in Washington State. Hooray for the progress of the gospel and the protection of all human life from conception to natural death! Read more
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