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February 8, 2019
What a Consistent Life Ethic Looks Like
All rhetoric that relates the unborn to other forms of human life under assault is Catholic and sane. All rhetoric the pits the unborn against other forms of human life under assault is anti-Catholic and insane.
February 7, 2019
Dear Prolife Suckers
Yet again a GOP court pulls away the football by signalling continuity in its stance on abortion, blocking a law that could leave only one provider in Louisiana. And, 38 years of history are any indication, yet again you guys will go on being the biggest suckers in all of American politics. You never learn […]
February 6, 2019
Time-Travelling Pope Francis…
…involved in successful gene-splicing project to produce 19th century nun: Enraged readers at Church Militant and Lifesite News demand explanation, foresee certain doom for Church. Me: I just think Science is amazing!
February 5, 2019
Jimmy Akin Stands in a Grand Tradition of Catholic Speculation
One of the curious contradictions to grow up over the centuries is the double assertion that the Catholic tradition fears all thought outside the rigid parameters of dogma while at the same time encouraging all manner of philosophical flights of fancy about how many angels can dance on a pinhead and so forth. Neither claim […]
February 4, 2019
This is Literally the Teaching of Christ
“When you give a dinner or a banquet, do not invite your friends or your brothers or your kinsmen or rich neighbors, lest they also invite you in return, and you be repaid. But when you give a feast, invite the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind, and you will be blessed, because they […]
February 3, 2019
Our Lady of Thunder-Candles!
On Friday, I came down with a wallop of the flu and didn’t awake from my coma, 5 and 1/2 pounds lighter, till Sunday. When I did, I was delighted to find that, not only was it snowing and would continue to do so all afternoon, but I was deeply rewarded to discover that a […]
February 1, 2019
Kid injects himself with Bible and Koran passages…
…that he sequenced into DNA. No. Really: A 16-year-old French boy who made headlines around the world after he translated religious texts into DNA and injected it into himself has explained his process. Adrien Locatelli translated the Book of Genesis and the 13th chapter of the Koran into a DNA sequence. He then built the […]
January 31, 2019
Sonnet for a Friday
(After Jeremiah 20:10-11) I repented, and Satan said, “Not good enough!” Mocking me, he spat in my face, called me liar, bore down on me and stood over me, hissing out the threat, “Abase yourself! Crawl on your belly and, squirming, hate what God has made and call yourself scum. You do not truly repent […]
January 30, 2019
A reader asks why I’m so much harder on “pro-life” Christians
He writes: I just wish you would focus on the life issue at hand, instead of twisting everything in order to condemn the GOP and support Dems. Whenever the GOP does something wrong, you hammer them for it, but when Dems do things wrong, you twist it to again focus on how everything is the […]
January 29, 2019
Fascinating Conversation the Other Day
On Sunday, which commemorated the 74th Anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, a friend of mine commented on the Book of Face: The people who created Auschwitz weren’t monsters, they were ordinary people whose judgment was gradually warped by a monstrous ideology that looked to blame the ills of their society on outsiders, foreigners, the […]
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