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March 10, 2017
On Thursday, Deacon Steve Greydanus and I yakked…
…about Beauty and the Beast and Kong: Skull Island:
Simple rule of thumb
Watch what Trump does, don’t be seduced by what he says. He is stabbing his supporters in the Rust Belt in the back. And for heaven’s sake, stop buying the “He’s acting a bit more Presidential” schtick:
I always love these stories
…of when a community rallies around a citizen–in this case an elderly man who got hate mail because somebody didn’t like his Christmas lights a few months ago. It’s all these little unnoticed and unheralded acts of love and charity that are the lubricant keeping the world from overheating and burning down. I wonder how [Read More...]
On Wednesday, Rod Bennett and I had fun…
and naturally wound up talking about King Kong dying for our sins:
On the air today with Doug O’Brien at 5 PM Eastern…
…on Connecting the Dots. Give us a call at 1-573-4BREAD4 and join the conversation.
March 9, 2017
Over at Northwest Catholic…
…Yr. Obdt. Svt. is discussing “Lent for Newbies“.
Name the Exoplanet Contest!
A reader writes: You commented on the buzz regarding earth-like planets recently. You know, since the star is called “Trappist”, I suggest we name one of the three planets in the habitable zone after Thomas Merton and another after Christian de Chergé (one of the Algerian martyrs shown in the movie “Gods and Men”). Any
Catholics have a moral obligation…
…to oppose the racist filth and contempt for human life that is right at the heart of the Alt-Right.
On the air today with Deacon Steven Greydanus at 5 PM Eastern…
…on Connecting the Dots. Give us a call at 1-573-4BREAD4 and join the conversation.
March 8, 2017
Of Popes and Trumpists
Some reflection over at Commonweal on living in an extraordinary moment when many Catholics seriously talk as though Trump is somehow God’s Anointed and the Holy Father is some sort of enemy of the Church. The spectacle of Church Militant telling the faithful that Trump is “Constantine” and gushing on about its own anointing by [Read More...]
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