To recap: Last week we were supposed to accept the screams for resignation of the only pope to act against McCarrick because a guy with a known grudge said so, even though he refused to provide any evidence and changed his story multiple times and even though that man himself did nothing about McCarrick when he was the sole person on American soil who could have done so. This week we are supposed to tell the lying slut Christine Blasey... Read more
If you are looking for a good film to watch, may I recommend Amazing Grace, the story of William Wilberforce, the English Evangelical who did, almost by sheer force of character alone, what it would take all the slaughter of our Civil War to achieve: the destruction of the English slave trade. I am fascinated with these sorts of stories of real moral revolutions in human history. Some evil that was hitherto excused or acceptable simply becomes unbearable. People who... Read more
The materialist theory of history, that all politics and ethics are the expression of economics, is a very simple fallacy indeed. It consists simply of confusing the necessary conditions of life with the normal preoccupations of life, that are quite a different thing. It is like saying that because a man can only walk about on two legs, therefore he never walks about except to buy shoes and stockings. Man cannot live without the two props of food and drink,... Read more
From a piece called “Abortion and the Left“: After all, if one truly cares about ending abortions, the first task would be to examine the reasons women seek them. When women who abort are asked why they do not want to have a child, 74 percent say that having a child would interfere with education, work, or their ability to care for dependents, while 73 percent said they cannot afford a baby. Abortion rates are high in the developing world... Read more
U.S. inmate executed using fentanyl for 1st time There appeared to be no complications from the procedure, according to witnesses America: Where “complications” means “continuing to live”. Read more
Hope you can come! And if you are interested in getting together for lunch on 9/25, just say so in the comboxes and we’ll see what we can set up! Read more
Ideologues will read this as proving that churches and people perceived as “liberal” are the locus of the problem because such ideologues are immune to any understanding of the problem involving data and facts and insist on using their template of “This is all the fault of gays and liberals, who are basically all the same people.” In reality, what the data abundantly supports, is that these stories are emerging from countries with a free press and socially liberal tradition... Read more
When last we heard from Church Militant they were absolutely certain that shadowy forces were just about to spirit Cdl. Wuerl away to Rome in a super-secret clandestine operation, never to be seen again! It was all breathlessly reported by that other bastion of Total Reliability, Liesite News: Church Militant claims Cdl. Wuerl fleeing to Rome to avoid U.S. arrest for abuse cover-up https://t.co/yThlfqHxGa — LifeSite Catholic (@LSNCatholic) August 30, 2018 Voris declared that “final plans for sneaking him out... Read more
which seems pretty sound to me. Discuss: The abuse crisis in the church requires three action plans moving forward. The first is to ensure justice and restitution to victims. The second is to remove the bad actors which may include some bishops who are particularly egregious for cover-up. The third requires an approach to prevention of future abuse. It is this third area that has the greatest interest to me. Currently, the training and policies are best practices. However, if... Read more
Bishop Barron does a good job articulating why: When I have more time I will try to give some of my personal reasons (all reasons for being Catholic are ultimately personal ones since our God is a personal God). Read more
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