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We are the “No” to heartless policies

Cardinal Tobin saying what should be obvious about the mission of the Church–but which tragically is in an age when so many Catholics have been bewitched by the false gospel of the Party of Trump.  

“The Exodus” by Dave Barnhart

The Exodus I have seen your religion, and I hate it. I have heard your doctrine, and I loathe it. Take away your empty praise songs, your vacuous worshiptainment. Your mouth is full of religious words, but your proverbs are salted manure. “The sick deserve to be sick. The poor deserve to be poor. The [Read More...]

My friend Kaiser Johnson gets interviewed…

by Word on Fire.  It’s not everyday you meet a Chestertonian who has acted in Sleepy Hollow and the Vampire Diaries.

Pretty much

And then, Catholics for Malevolent Narcissists sets to work everywhere on the blogosphere to point out that *nowhere* in the Catechism, nor in a single papal or conciliar document in the entire history of the Church do the words, “The rich are absolutely forbidden to harvest the organs of the poor at will or hunt [Read More...]

Health Care is a Right

The Church teaches that it is. Multiple magisterial sources reiterate this fact. Therefore some guy with a keyboard named Kevin Williamson is in error when he denies that proposition. I’m hearing several popular libertarian dogmas deny this fact. The first is the claim that since health care requires other people’s property and labor there can [Read More...]

The Latest “Connecting the Dots” is on the Air!

My friend Andrew March (a Protestant podcaster and prolife guy with a devotion to the Blessed Mother) had a really great conversation about a wide range of things and wound up talking about Our Lady. He and Irenaeus and the gospel writers have a lot to talk about. He’s one of the most Catholic Protestants [Read More...]

Great Moments in American Oratory

“Now is not the time to decide what to do or how to do it; now is the time to do it.” – Rep. Kevin McCarthy, demonstrating the postmodern nihilist void in the heart and mind of the Thing that Used to be Conservatism Chesterton could get a whole book or two out of laughing [Read More...]

A Happy Medium for the OF and EF

Your thing to make your head asplode for today.

This is pretty fun!

All the Horrific Details…

…of how you and those you love are being screwed royally by the House GOP’s Kill the Weak and Sick bill are here. It of course remains to be seen how the Senate will make that bill even more cruel. Meanwhile, virtually every health, cancer, heart disease, rare illness, children’s and old age group in [Read More...]