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Traditionalist Reader Eric S. Giuntas has another interesting essay

It’s called “Open Borders” and the Conservative Tradition: The Salamanca Scholastics” and is the first in a series documenting that support for open borders is the historical norm, and was embraced by all the intellectual giants of the conservative tradition before very recently, when the popular right went full xenophobic. By natural law and the law […]

One small counter-argument against the torrent of Trump Cult lies about refugees

When you object to the sexual abuse and torture inflicted on kidnapped children in ICE custody, you swiftly meet MAGA types (“prolife”, doncha know) who love to ring the changes on this bare-faced lie: The parents who are bringing their children on a dangerous journey from Central America to the USA are to blame for […]

On This Veterans Day…

I offer thanks to all vets and apologies from a graceless and ungrateful country whose cowardly draft-dodging leader insults Gold Star families, slimes decorated war heroes as traitors, and deports them for being brown after they put their lives on the line for us.  We do not deserve you and you do not deserve such […]

So this was hilarious

A reader sent me this since I’m working on a book on the Creed: So I had fun. Plugged the Creed in Church Slavonic through Google Translate… Welcome to heresy, enjoy: They only believe in God the Father almighty, the creator of heaven and earth, I see all the time and invisible. And in the […]

I’ll give this to Libertarians…

Unlike an awful lot of “prolife” Catholics and other conservative white Christians, they are on the front lines when it comes to abolishing the death penalty, rather than fighting for this barbarity even against Holy Church herself. Here, for instance, is a statement from Conservatives Concerned About the Death Penalty (a nationwide group of conservatives […]

More on the Cognitive Dissonance of Death Penalty Defenders

As we saw yesterday, people who chatter about the Magisterial development regarding the death penalty seem oblivious to the really huge development of doctrine surrounding the Church’s extremely recent denunciation of slavery.  What is notable to me is that all the Church has done with the death penalty is call it “inadmissible”.  It does not […]

The People Freaking Out About “Overturning Tradition” in Calling for the Abolition of the Death Penalty

…seem to me to be utterly oblivious to the Church’s development of doctrine with respect to slavery. Reader Raphael Winters chronicles this development: The Catholic Church from the time of the Apostles tolerated the practice of slavery. Was there critique? Yes. Was there regulation? Yes. Was kidnapping eventually outlawed? Yes. The classical liberal (conservative) will […]

A Kindly Traditionalist Writes Me

Sez he: I’m nine years a convert to the Catholic Faith, three years a ‘tradvert’, and currently thick as thieves with those Fr Z/Steve Skojec/Taylor Marshall/Cardinal Burke-loving characters who cause you and your readers such grief and distress for the future of the Church in America. The rules of tribal combat would indicate that I […]

Eric S. Giunta is Somebody I Have Sparred with Several Times

He is a fairly common fixture around St. Blog’s, a passionate Traditionalist and a sometime critic of the Holy Father.  As you may guess, we often conflict.  However, he seems to me to be an honest man.  One evidence of this is his refusal to bow to the Right Wing Lie Machine’s Panic du Jour […]

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