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Just a reminder: I lost my main source of income due to COVID. If you like what I am doing and want to help make sure that I keep doing it while feeding my family and not living in our car, please consider becoming a Patron on Patreon! Currently, I am finishing up one book […]

Flannery O’Connor Reads “A Good Man is Hard to Find”

Something cool for a Saturday morning:

Disproving the Lie that Trump Did Not Call Neo-Nazis “Very Fine People”

Ever since Donald Trump called people marching under the banner of the swastika at the 2017 Charlottesville Unite the Right rally “very fine people” the MAGA Cult has done what it perpetually does, deny reality and declare he did no such thing.  Somebody tried to deny this reality to the doggedly honest and thorough Deacon […]

Gnostics, QANON, COVID Liberty Protests, and the Myth of the Untutored Genius

Lots of people think the Gnostics of the second century were the Cool Christians, muzzled by the Religious Establishment of the Church. The popular notion with lots of postmoderns is that if Gnostics had only prevailed then we would still have access to the Real Jesus, not some figure encrusted over with Theology, Sacraments, Tradition […]

Help Support Me on Patreon!

Due to COVID, my primary income source laid me off in late March.  I make a whopping $120 a month writing for Patheos.  And because of my weird non-traditional self-employed status, I can’t seem to convince Washington State that I should be getting unemployment, even though I paid taxes on my job like everybody else. […]

Can a Catholic Be a Socialist?

People think I really care about socialism.  So this post will undoubtedly be misread as an expression of that, even though I don’t really care about it particularly.  Here goes anyway. Trent Horn of Catholic Answers has a new book out asking the musical question Can a Catholic Be a Socialist? Trent Horn says no. […]

Masquerading as a Social Justice Warrior

One pattern I’ve noted from people who use the unborn as human shields for making war on virtually the entirety of the rest of the Church’s social doctrine is that they nearly always describe those who take that teaching seriously as “masquerading” as “social justice warriors” in order to “undermine True Catholicism” or some variation […]

On the False Dichotomy of Right Wing Pandemic Economic Arguments

MAGA Back to Work Zealot in Right Wing Media: “You politically correct liberals claim to care about the lives of people threatened by COVID, but you refuse to face the fact that the economic impact is, as our great President says, a cure that is worse than the disease. We have to get people back to work […]

Philomena Cunk is a One Woman Force of Education

You learn so much from the BBC: I feel as cultured as a petri dish!

Paradigm shifting

Had an interesting conversation some time back. Maybe somebody will find it useful. I wrote: I’m starting to suspect that the net effect of God’s dealing with me over the past 20 years has been to make me face the fact that the Faith–that is, He–is a mystery, not a body of doctrine and that, […]