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Where Peter Is on the Francis-Hating Sect’s Push for Schism

One of the weird patterns Francis-hating (and Trump-adoring) conservatism (particularly inside, but also outside the United States) has increasingly manifested over the past several years is the strange habit of turning its accusations into confessions.  Again and again, conservatives have accused their enemies of things, only to reveal that they are projecting their own inner […]

Mission Creep

So the other day, Facebook kicked a bunch of kooks out. Most of them were right wing kooks and one of them was Louis Farrakhan. The President of the United States, eternally ignorant of the Constitution which he swore an oath to protect immediately saw a chance to gin up a Right Wing Panic du […]

When Priests Attack

So last week, Jimmy Akin offered a typically lucid critique of the absurd letter charging the Holy Father with heresy. It was, I thought, a brave thing to do since the subculture that it was both created by and addressed to is, in large measure, the subculture that reads the National Catholic Register, for whom […]

A Reader Objects to my Discussion of Prudential Judgment

He quotes this passage from my recent piece on Prudence and Climate Change: And whenever the Church says things we dislike–be it about unjust war, torture, gun violence, a living wage, the death penalty, birth control, transgenderism, climate change or anything else–we can simply ignore it or dedicate large reserves of our time and energy […]

I think I need to repent and apologize

So a few weeks back, I discussed this rather striking moment in my prayer life where God very lovingly told me that I do not love my enemies. I took that to confession and have been thinking a lot about it and trying to change. I’m also working on a book on the Creed and […]

Jimmy Akin performs the autopsy on the charges of heresy against the Holy Father

You can read the whole thing here (which is well worth doing since Jimmy’s trademark lucidity is always a pleasure to read), but here’s his summary: Summing Up The Open Letter has many other flaws, but its chief one is that it fails to make the case that the present pope is guilty of heresy. […]

Jimmy Akin on the absurd charge of heresy against Francis

Well done, Jimmy. This absurd is the latest coup attempt by Reactionary crazies. How crazy, you ask? Here’s a guy on Twitter who is keeping tabs on some of the loonier stuff being aired by those hoping for the overthrow of Francis: “It would be good for a secular Italian nationalist and a Protestant empire […]

Since It’s Mary’s Day…

I thought it would be good to talk a bit about her.  Here’s a bit from my upcoming book about the Creed. Skepticism about the Virgin Birth Curiously, the Virgin Birth often seems to provoke more doubt than the Resurrection does. Not just non-Christians, but even many believers have difficulties with it while having no […]

A Reader Ponders Becoming Orthodox

They write: I’m thinking of actually converting to orthodox. My dad was. I’ve been reading the orthodox way and Frederica Matthews-Green, and feel called, like a vocation. It came down to me walking with two friends, one catholic and one orthodox. We saw a prostitute (not unusual for 14th Street at night). My catholic buddy […]