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Mike Flynn’s father, Joseph, died. Of your charity please pray for him and all who mourn his passing. Read more
Mike Flynn’s father, Joseph, died. Of your charity please pray for him and all who mourn his passing. Read more
Michael Wolff, in addition to chronicling the massive dysfunction of the freak show in the White House, offers this small vignette of the man Church Militant and countless Christianists seriously believe is God’s Anointed: So much family values/prolife winning in this tidily documented book. But, of course, the thoroughly Trumpified old prolife movement knows what kind of man he is. They adored him when he took vengeance on his infant nephew with cerebral palsy, when he called his years of... Read more
A reader writes: Would you consider sharing my friend’s go fund me? They are a large, Catholic family and they’ve had a house fire. I don’t think they even know what their needs will be yet, beyond the immediate. They’re asking for help with food and shelter. Thanks so much! Read more
Charlie Camosy writes: I have some terrible and heartbreaking news to share about my friend and colleague Beth Haile. Several of you who are on my Facebook feed know her. For those of you who don’t, she is one of the best people around and light to anyone who meets her. In the last few days, some of us have received news that she has an inoperable brain tumor. After several consultations and opinions, she seems likely to have a... Read more
Liesite News, in its ongoing quest to make Sean Hannity look like a paragon of rock-ribbed journalistic integrity by comparison, outdoes itself in sheer Francis-hating hysteria with a story titled “‘Eerie and ominous’ sign appears as Pope Francis visits Vatican Nativity“. What horror was revealed from celestial realms to assure us all that Liesite Rulz and Francis Droolz today and God sez so so shaddup? A bunch of seagulls flew away when Francis and a gaggle of pilgrims went to... Read more
Ezra Klein does the autopsy on Trump NY Times interview from last week. First, he look at the lying and self-delusion: The president of the United States is not well. That is an uncomfortable thing to say, but it is an even worse thing to ignore. Consider the interview Trump gave to the New York Times on Thursday. It begins with a string of falsehoods that make it difficult to tell whether the leader of the free world is lying or delusional.... Read more
Here: “President Trump was the candidate of disruption. He was the disrupter, he said. Well now, we must all become disrupters. We must disrupt those who would seek to send troops into our streets to deport the undocumented, to rip mothers and fathers from their families. We must disrupt those who portray refugees as enemies rather than our brothers and sisters in terrible need. We must disrupt those who train us to see Muslim men and women and children as... Read more
Why does the Church bother having dogmas about Mary anyway? Why not just stick to talking about Jesus? To find out way, consider Nestorius. He was a fifth-century bishop and theologian who disliked the way common folk talked about Jesus and his mother because it played havoc with a theory he had concocted. Nestorius’ theory was rooted in a deep discomfort that is as old as the Church: the discomfort with the fact that the Word really and truly became... Read more
A guy goes out and finds a bunch of good news to recap 2017: You can access his Twitter feed here. Read more
“It is a serious thing to live in a society of possible gods and goddesses, to remember that the dullest and most uninteresting person you talk to may one day be a creature which, if you saw it now, you would be strongly tempted to worship, or else a horror and a corruption such as you now meet, if at all, only in a nightmare. All day long we are, in some degree, helping each other to one or other... Read more
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