2018-03-04T13:05:05-04:00

Last updated on: March 4, 2018 at 1:05 pm   By

You will have heard, I take it, of a recent “wrong­ful birth” law­suit. It was but one in a long string of them. The Daily Screech reported on it in August: After an amnio­cen­te­sis, par­ents were told they had a healthy baby; par­ents deliv­ered the baby. Turned out, baby has Syn­drome Z. Turned out, the med­ical office had mis­read the results. So par­ents sued on the premise that they would have aborted the baby if only they had known about the Syn­drome Z. This was not a unique case; half of all U.S. states rec­og­nize “wrong­ful birth” as a cause of action, and one cou­ple was awarded a full $50 mil­lion in such a suit. Yes­ter­day Brandy Zadrozny, also for the Screech, reported on the inverse of all this. [...] Read more

2018-03-17T23:13:25-04:00

Last updated on: March 17, 2018 at 11:13 pm   By

Pope Francis Derangement Syndrome, on the right, has reached full-scale, raw and tune­less, no-holds-barred, cloud-cuckoo-land, blasted and scream­ing nut­tery. I know this because of how Mau­reen Mullarkey begins her recent col­umn at The Fed­er­al­ist. After charg­ing Rachel Lu with “timid­ity” for telling the pope’s crit­ics on the right to stop the invective lest they be used by the left, Mullarkey proceeds to compare faithful Catholics who defend the pope to docile Jews being led off to the gas chambers. Well, it did not take long for the edi­to­r­ial staff at First Things, after Mullarkey pub­lished this piece of venom, to issue this embar­rassed retrac­tion. One won­ders whether The Fed­er­al­ist will be far behind. [...] Read more

2017-03-09T01:10:42-04:00

Last updated on: March 9, 2017 at 1:10 am   By

This post is the lat­est in a dis­cus­sion between myself and Reformed “apol­o­gist” Steve "Purple" Haze of Failablogue, on the topic of NFP and the pope’s words about rabbits. It will have to be my closing statement on the topic. It is always best to state the truth as clearly as you can, and then let it go. Mr. Haze begins his new post in this wild and frothing way: “Papal lackey Scott Eric Alt is once again try­ing to save the pope’s ran­cid bacon." Poor soul. That’s okay. I’m patient here. I get it. The lights are slow to go on at Fail­ablogue. Frus­tra­tion leads to anger; anger leads to hate; hate leads to suf­fer­ing! So let us, with patience, help poor Pur­ple Haze. [...] Read more

2018-04-07T00:03:27-04:00

Last updated on: April 7, 2018 at 12:03 am   By

Glenn Beck, with the selfless charity of one who thinks well of himself, has offered to put together a “team” that will teach Pope Fran­cis what cap­i­tal­ism really is. When­ever I see stuff like this, I always won­der whether those say­ing it have read the pope’s words first-hand. Have they read Church social teach­ing, in the Church’s own words? Do they think they need to? Or do they get all their infor­ma­tion about the Church and the pope from the sec­u­lar press? Quid est ver­i­tas? Rush Lim­baugh held firm to his con­vic­tion that the pope is a Marx­ist based solely on a mis­quo­ta­tion in Reuters. He was asked to check the tran­script. He did not, though he him­self con­firmed that he was asked. [...] Read more

2017-03-09T01:17:10-04:00

Last updated on: March 9, 2017 at 1:17 am   By

Steve "Purple" Hays of Failablogue (he calls it Triablogue, for duplicitous reasons of his own) has replied to my post from Fri­day. If your gen­eral prac­ti­tioner has affirmed that you are safely free from stom­ach acid and there’s no dan­ger that it will blow up on you from exposure to bilge, you can read it yourself. But since the man is in a deep mud­dle about this issue of C-sections and NFP and Pope Fran­cis, I’m going to fisk his post with some length and patience. I’m always here to help. It’s a ser­vice I offer Calvinists on my blog. Mr. Hays begins his post by refer­ring to me as “one of this pope’s many self-​appointed han­dlers” and “a lay blog­ger.” Now, I know why he does this: It is to poi­son the well. [...] Read more

2018-04-07T00:07:48-04:00

Last updated on: April 7, 2018 at 12:07 am   By

There is no cesspool so foul that John Bugay will not jump into it with full-​throated glee if it serves his hatred of the Catholic Church. The man lost his shame years ago. Con­sider that it was this very same polem­i­cal rogue who once pho­to­shopped a Hitler mous­tache onto St. Therese of Lisieux, removed it only under the strong per­sua­sion of his pas­tor, and all the while whim­pered that he had been much maligned and abused by the Catholics who called him out. Well, dear reader, the dog has returned to his vomit, this time with a foul and smelly joke about orgasms. But I’ll get to that. (For those who really don’t wish to read it, it comes up in sec­tion 3 of the post; you can skip that part.) [...] Read more

2017-03-09T01:19:29-04:00

Last updated on: March 9, 2017 at 1:19 am   By

I think the num­ber of three chil­dren per fam­ily that you men­tioned ... I think it is the num­ber experts say is impor­tant to keep the pop­u­la­tion going. ... When this decreases, the other extreme hap­pens, like what is hap­pen­ing in Italy. I have heard, I do not know if it is true, that in 2024 there will be no money to pay pen­sion­ers because of the fall in pop­u­la­tion." Rick Santorum seems not to know that the pope did indeed say this about declining populations. Matt Wilstein at Mediaite seems not to have heard that the Catholic Church has long permitted spacing births through NFP. And a reporter at CBS seems not to know the pope walked nothing back in the days after the interview. So it goes. [...] Read more

2018-03-04T14:14:07-04:00

Last updated on: March 4, 2018 at 2:14 pm   By

Liber­al­ism, as it exists today, is a fairy tale that occa­sion­ally bumps up against truth, gets per­plexed and angry for a spell, then returns to Neverland. In few places is this more true than in the lib­eral media’s cov­er­age of Pope Fran­cis. I have writ­ten about this sad phe­nom­e­non many a time and oft. Their delu­sions about Fran­cis, and their igno­rance of the Church they write about, never ends. And they seem to be woe­fully incu­ri­ous about get­ting it right. In the lat­est episode of this saga, an anony­mous author (AA) for inquisitr​.com writes an arti­cle titled “Pope Fran­cis Might Not Be As Awe­some As We Thought He Was.” Oh, no! Does that sound to you like it was writ­ten by some­one in high school? [...] Read more

2018-03-04T13:57:55-04:00

Last updated on: March 4, 2018 at 1:57 pm   By

Well, the Vagina Mono­logues is no more. Its sex­ual pol­i­tics are no longer in­clu­sive enough. So af­ter a run of nine­teeen straight years, Mt. Holyoke Col­lege has can­celed the play on the grounds that it is "blatantly transphobic" and ex­cludes women with­out vagi­nas. The peculiar phrase “women with­out vagi­nas” is meant to in­clude both real women with­out vagi­nas and men who think they’re women. Now, there are two things that in­ter­est me about this. The first is that it is an instance of reach­ing the right con­clu­sion through the wrong logic. And the second is the tim­ing. It comes nearly on the heels of the sui­cide of Josh Alcorn. [...] Read more

2018-04-07T00:11:33-04:00

Last updated on: April 7, 2018 at 12:11 am   By

We must be will­ing to give offense, and be a sign of offense. This is par­tic­u­larly true in a cul­ture that is all wrought up about rel­a­tivism at the same time it is hell-bent on impos­ing what Orwell called “smelly lit­tle ortho­dox­ies.” Not all opin­ions should be treated with equal respect. I have deep con­tempt for anti-Catholicism. I have deep con­tempt for poor argu­men­ta­tion and faulty logic, because I believe that it is our God-given rea­son that leads us to truth, and truth mat­ters. If we are not will­ing to give offense, and in some con­texts lose our lives for it, then we may as well aban­don the pur­suit of truth—and freedom—altogether. [...] Read more

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