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Brandon Vogt’s Claritas U is on the air–and on my show today!

I’m gonna have him on Connecting the Dots today with Michael Lichens at 5 PM Eastern. Here is a video series he did to introduce Claritas U:

Sherry Antonetti and I are on the air at 5 PM Eastern…

on Connecting the Dots.  Give us a call at 1-573-4BREAD4.

The Function of the Magisterium

As a former Protestant who, in part, discovered the Catholic Church out of frustration at the chaos of Evangelicalism, I entered the Church with gratitude for the Magisterium.  And for a long time, I used to think the primary function of the Magisterium was to keep people from thinking wrongly about the Faith. That’s certainly [Read More...]

Tomi Lahren has carved out a little niche for herself

…as a conservative (and therefore conservative Christian) folk hero.  She’s said all the usual thing about contempt for and cruelty to the least of these that now constitute the gospel for the Republichristians and, of course, has received cheers from that demographic as a truth-telling babe, etc. Now she has come out as pro-choice. There [Read More...]

On Friday, Doug O’Brien joined me to talk about…

…the dogmas that “Outside the Church there is no salvation” and that “it is absolutely necessary for the salvation of every human creature to be subject to the Roman Pontiff.”

Gov. Rick Scott, Good Christian Member of the Right Wing Culture of Death…

removes state attorney for failing to be sufficiently full of bloodlust. He’s “prolife”, doncha know. I know. I know. “Abortion is intrinsically immoral and the death penalty isn’t.” So what? The teaching of the Church is that unless you absolutely have to kill somebody, don’t do it. It is not, “If you can possibly find [Read More...]

The Subsidiarity Case for Meals on Wheels

The primary achievement of the now-heretical “prolife” movement in its deathless dedication to defending every lie and cruelty the Party of Trump advocates is that it has become the loudest defender of cutting off food to poor old people and children and calling it “compassion”.  That is what the real time and energy of the [Read More...]

Conservative Catholics Got Together for a Confab at Trump Tower

John Gehring was there: Last week’s gathering mixed traditional Catholic religious practices with moments that felt uncomfortably nationalistic. For instance, the gathering opened with a “Patriotic Rosary for the Consecration of our Nation” that included readings from George Washington and John Adams. I was most disturbed by another reading in the rosary booklet from General [Read More...]

Simcha Fisher’s right, as usual

Medjugorje is a fraud. Bishop and exorcist Mons Andrea Gemma on Medjugorje says: It is an absolutely diabolical event, around which numerous underworld interests revolve … I’m referring to ‘the Devil’s dung’, to money, what else? At Medjugorje everything happens for the sake of money: pilgrimages, overnight stays, the sales of trinkets. In this way, [Read More...]

Bishops ask Congress to think of the least of these

It is doubtful the predatory functional atheists of the Party of Trump, who has never seen a reason to ask God for forgiveness, will listen. But you can’t blame the bishops for trying.