What are you doing here? You shouldn’t be here, you should be voting! Oh, I see by your haggard expression that you’ve voted already. I’m sorry. Come in. Put up your feet. Have a cup of whiskey-laced tea with me. I made gluten-free sandwiches. Let’s watch a movie together. It has absolutely nothing to do with politics; it wasn’t even made in the United States. It was made partly in South Africa, and partly Somewhere in Time and Space.... Read more
Alert reader and commentator Patricia Larson Guilfoyle recently posted the following, on my post about Father Pavone’s desecration of an infant and an altar earlier today: A dead baby VERY SIMILAR to this one was put on public display in Charlotte before the 2012 Democratic National Convention. When asked what happened to the baby’s remains after the “event,” which featured the baby in an open casket on the sidewalk outside a Catholic church (which was closed at the time), Father Pavone would... Read more
My Fellow Priest: If you recover the body of a murder victim, please proceed as all priests are taught and obligated to proceed: (1) the body when brought into the church for a Funeral Mass is to be covered with a pall and placed near or before the altar, not upon it, and not naked; (2) celebrate obediently the Funeral Mass according to the rubrics of the Church; (3) offer up obediently the prayers that are to follow the... Read more
Update: For continuing reporting on this incedent, and on Pavone and Priests for Life’s efforts to dig themselves deeper and deeper into their shame and counter-witness, I encourage you to consult the blog Proper Nomenclature by Keith Michael Estrada. Of particular interest is this post “Breaking: Fr. Frank Pavone defends sacrilege: “The issue is not how I’m treating a baby.” ” published sometime Monday after I originally completed the below. Keith is always a reliable and responsible source for reporting... Read more
I seriously, seriously did not want to write about this man again. Let me ask a hypothetical question. What if a priest tried to preach against rape, by parading a naked rape survivor into the church, still bleeding from her injury, and having her sit on the altar for a photo? Okay, what if a priest was preaching against nuclear war, so he found the corpse of a person who died from radiation poisoning and slung them naked onto the... Read more
There was no need for Father Vasyl to apologize, let alone apologize twice. The whole thing was entirely my fault. I usually go to the eleven AM Divine Liturgy at the Byzantine Catholic Church, and this time I was at the vigil. And he hadn’t seen me when he came into the church with the thurible– I’d arrived at church early, decided to go for a walk, taken too long and ended up running back in in the middle of the... Read more
I have one last message for my readers. It is after midnight. It is officially November seventh. You know what that means? That’s right. One day more. One more day until election day and then this rancid, festering gangrenous hangnail of an election season is over forever. We can do this. We can make it. In twenty-four hours the deed will be done, though we’ll probably still be hunched over our laptops gulping cheap wine from jumbo-sized mason jars and waiting for the... Read more
Take a look at this video, from the Guardian, interviewing Austin Crites. Austin Crites is the Republican who was peacefully holding an anti-Trump sign at a Trump rally last night when he brutally beaten; one of his assailants screamed “Gun,” which is why Donald Trump was rushed offstage and the news originally reported an assassination attempt at that rally. “There were people grabbing at my neck so hard, it could have strangled me to death. Other people were grabbing... Read more
No, seriously, thanks, Obama. Everyone ought to react to a heckler this way: No matter how much you disagree with someone, you ought to respect people and defend their rights, including their right to free speech. You ought to look for anything you can respect about them and do so. Thanks, Obama. Really, thanks. (image via Pixabay) Read more
Last night at the anticipation Divine Liturgy, we heard the gospel of the Good Samaritan. A man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho. We all do, at some point. Jerusalem is the City of God, the city with the Temple Mount, the city of compact unity set on the hill for all the world to see. All the tribes of Israel go up to Jerusalem. All the nations of the earth will make their pilgrimage there, and all will... Read more
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