Part two of our Hostage Exchange as I host Scott Stantis on my podcast after he hosted me on his. Scott is the author of the “Prickly City” strip, the editorial cartoonist for the Chicago Tribune–and a Catholic convert of some 10 years. You can some of his work below: Read more
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Which you can listen to here. Scott is the editorial cartoonist for the Chicago Tribune and the author of the “Prickly City” cartoon strip. He is also a convert and a fan of this blog, so we decided to do a hostage exchange. I did his podcast and he did mine. I’m posting the link to his podcast today and will post the Connecting the Dots interview with him tomorrow! We had a lot of fun! Read more
In his essay, “The World’s Last Night” C.S. Lewis reflects on the possibility of Judgment Day–of God interrupting all our consequentialist plans to do evil right now for the sake of some imaginary Future Rosy Dawn with his very concrete judgment for what we are, in fact, actually doing, thusly: I can imagine no man who will look with more horror on the End than a conscientious revolutionary who has, in a sense sincerely, been justifying cruelties and injustices inflicted... Read more
The readings yesterday were profoundly moving to me. As you may or may not know, the Church typically chooses the Sunday readings in order to highlight the point Jesus made to the disciples on the first Easter: Then he said to them, “These are my words which I spoke to you, while I was still with you, that everything written about me in the law of Moses and the prophets and the psalms must be fulfilled.” Then he opened their... Read more
that I have a piece on the weird juxtaposition of Valentine’s Day and Ash Wednesday up over at the Catholic Weekly: Still and all, the strange juxtaposition of Ash Wednesday–replete with reminders of death, self-abnegation, ashes, and fasting—with Valentine’s Day and its chocolates, lovey-dovey mush, and romance is actually strangely Christian. Jesus, after all, calls himself the Bridegroom and, after his forty days of Lenten fasting in the desert, inaugurates his whole ministry at a wedding. Indeed, the nuptial imagery... Read more
We seem to have arrived at a period in our history where mayors and local councils of local communities are the principal bulwark we have against the authoritarian dictator of the Party of Small Government. Earlier this week Supreme Maximum Leader Misogynous Bonespurs decided that in addition to blowing huge sums of money on a stupid wall to please his base of racist mouthbreathers, he also wanted to go full Soviet with a gigantic military parade in his honor. His... Read more
There are a ton of Youtube about this phenomenal cop. Here are just a few: Guardian cops, not Warrior cops. Read more
Jesus commands us to love our enemies. His apostle, Paul, points out one of many techniques for helping to do that: namely, to remember that humans are, in the grand scheme of things, dupes of an even more cosmic evil than merely men: Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his might. Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. For we are not... Read more
I’m neither a shepherd nor am I gay, so this does not pertain to me directly, but I do have a question as somebody interested in Catholic evangelization. People were writing me concerning Cdl. Marx’ alleged suggestion that there be some kind of blessing for gay couples under certain circumstances. Evidently, what he said is now disputed, and the latest news seems to be that he was just talking about pastoral care. Not being a German speaker, I have no... Read more
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