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Trevor Noah on the Silence of the NRA re: the Cold-Blooded Murder of Philando Castile

Go to 4:08 mark. In case it is still unclear, the NRA is silent because the NRA exists to profit from an arms industry that flourishes by telling white people that darkskins like Trayvon Martin are coming to kill them and they have to be armed to the teeth at all times in order to [Read More...]

On the heels of my conversation with the Good Catholic Libertarian…

…who wants diabetics to die as punishment for their sins of sloth and gluttony, the Trump Administration makes clear that this will be Administration policy too. It needs to be clearly understood that the American Taliban Christians in the ranks of Trump defenders will support the denial of health care to every person whose illness [Read More...]

Gonna do an interesting interview today

…with Jon Sweeney, the author of The Saint vs. the Scholar, about the fight between Bernard of Clairvaux and Peter Abelard, on Connecting the Dots.  I’ll post it when it’s ready to go!

How to tell actual Christianity from Americhristianism, Left or Right

“Love of enemy is the nucleus of the Christian revolution.” – Benedict XVI

My friend Patrick Coffin interviewed my friend Marcus Daly

…on Mercy and the Denial of Death:

When the Libertarian Mask Slips and the Eugenicist is Revealed

Had a typical conversation with a Libertarian about the question of health care as a right.  He was a typical Catholic dissenter from the Church’s teaching on this point, offering the typical Libertarian falsehoods like:  The reason this is a lie is that health care is not charity.  It is, as the Church teaches, a [Read More...]

I love that Elizabeth Anscombe has finally become a super-hero

“Scientism” is the position that Science can solve all problems, or that all problems are empirical. Philosophically, it is mostly associated with the strongest statements made by the logical positivism movement, which mostly died out in the mid 20th century. Culturally, however, it is stronger than ever, and is closely tied to movements like the [Read More...]

Reader Jenn Morson Frederick Calls for a Work of Mercy

…for parent’s enduring a tragedy: Ann and Gareth are dear friends from college who are currently living every parents worst nightmare. They have lost their precious girl, Evie, and they need our help. FUS friends, please share and help if you are able.

Trust the Church’s Prudence over Man’s

Particularly when the men in question have been so wrong about so much so many times for so long that only a fool would trust their prudence over that of a cocker spaniel’s, much less the Church’s. The last of my series on the Death Penalty at The Catholic Weekly.

We now live in a country where the President of the United States…

…forbids media from recording answers to questions directed at the Press Secretary. This is Soviet tyranny. And the lunatics most vocal about supporting this lying, corrupt, incompetent crook are Good Prolife Conservative Christian Trump supporters, who will happily burn the Constitution and destroy the foundation of Republic in their fanatical belief that everything–including annihilating freedom [Read More...]