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Pope Posts “No Whining” Sign on His Office Door No.  Really: A sign posted outside the door of Pope Francis’ office in the Domus Sanctae Marthae that reads “No whining” (Photo courtesy Vatican Insider/La Stampa) I love this guy so much.

Atheist Poet Becomes Catholic

I love the different ways Jesus reaches people: “It was around this time that Read found something fresh in one of her favorite books, ‘I Capture the Castle.’ ‘The book was written for children, and I read it almost every year,’ Read says. ‘I read the book for comfort. There’s one scene where the protagonist [Read More...]

La Civilta Cattolica has a very intelligent piece

on “Evangelical Fundamentalism and Catholic Integralism in the USA: A surprising ecumenism“. Check it out!

Hey Seattle!

I’m speaking about Mary tonight at 7 PM at Our Lady of Fatima parish. I look forward to seeing you there!

Something Astonishing Happened to Me This Weekend

I went to a strange and beautiful planet and saw incredible things! My latest at the Catholic Weekly.

The Devil You Don’t Know

Here’s a little piece on the Church’s tradition concerning the demonic that I wrote for Our Sunday Visitor recently.

Sean Hannity, the Incarnation of the Right Wing Gutter Press, to Get Buckley Award

It’s like giving Ann Coulter some award for Greatness in American Letters named for Flannery O’Connor. It doesn’t elevate Coulter. It just insults O’Connor. NY Times on the Hugo Awardification of the Right Wing Noise Machine: Fox News host Sean Hannity will receive the William F. Buckley Jr. Award for Media Excellence later this year [Read More...]

How Trump’s Collusion with Russia to Tamper with the Election

…affected his campaign and the GOP party platform on Ukraine. National Review gets it. As of now, we should have zero confidence that we know all or even most material facts. We should have zero confidence that Trump’s frustration is entirely due to his feeling like an innocent man caught in the crosshairs of crazed [Read More...]

Steve Greydanus and I talked…

about Spiderman: Homecoming, friendship, War of the Planet of the Apes, Charlie Gard, bad threequels and sundry other stuff on Connecting the Dots Podcast

Just to recap

Donald Trump, Jr consciously tried to collude with the Russians to tamper with the election. Manafort and Kushner were in on it too. If you believe Daddy did not know about it, I have a bridge to sell you. Did Donald Trump himself know? It would be remarkable if he didn’t. It would mean his [Read More...]