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Prayer Request

A reader writes: Please pray for the salvation of my father who has died recently. Please post my request to your blog so others can see it and can pray if they would like to May this man’s soul and all the souls of the faithful departed, through the mercy of God, rest in peace. […]

Charlottesville and America’s Original Sin

Bishop Barron on the evil we cannot seem to face, but must face: I vividly remember my first visit to Charlottesville, Virginia.  It was about twenty years ago, and I was on vacation with a good friend, who shared with me a passion for American history and for Thomas Jefferson in particular. We had toured […]

Our Lady is So Gentle

So today I went to Mass.  I’ve been out of sorts lately, feeling not very happy with myself and grumpy over all the Charlottesville racists, President Racist, and Good White Christian racist defenders.  I hate all this filth, but I also hate it when I get stuck on it.  My conscience tells me, “If you […]

Two Great Homilies on Sunday

Last Sunday was the particularly challenging gospel about Jesus and the Syro-Phoenician Woman.  It is fraught in our culture at this moment for a number of reasons (one of which I will return to in a day or so), but the one worth focusing on right now is the deadly challenge the gospel throws down […]

This goes out to Donald in DC, who believes Science is Fake News

Charlottesville, Virtue Signalling, and the Defenders of Trump

One of the things I’ve been warning of ever since “prolife” conservative Christians decided to chain themselves to Donald Trump and his nutty coterie of Alt Right Nazis is that they will dance to his tune, not he to theirs.  Everything since his rise has made that clear.  Conservative Christians went from “he’s a joke […]

For All Your Eclipse Needs

Go here to see what it will look like in your zip code. Go here to watch it live via NASA. Here are some tips for surviving the eclipse: If you are in need of biblical prophecies explaining the Meaning of the Eclipse and how it all coordinates with the End Times, I recommend Matthew […]

Presidential Arts and Humanities Committee Resigns En Masse

Best part: The first letter of each paragraph is an acrostic spelling out “RESIST”.

Christian Ethics in Action

This is beautiful: There are many headlines in the news today about fighting white supremacy and the Ku Klux Klan with violence. However, decades ago 58-year-old Blues musician Daryl Davis learned the most effective way to get a Klansman to give up his hood: friendship. Daryl Davis has a unique hobby. In his spare time, he befriends white […]

A Hell of an Argument

Here’s my latest over at The Catholic Weekly: So recently retired Episcopalian cleric John Shelby Spong was in the news offering the absolutely predictable opinion that Hell was “invented by the Church to control people with fear“. This is, after all, the guy who says that Paul was a repressed homosexual, that Mary was a […]