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So This Happened in Seattle Recently

I love that he goes to the agora, like Paul.

Followers of the Imagisterium

Mike Lewis brings the truth about the Greatest Catholics of All Time, a sect in the Church that constitutes the most bitter opponents of the Church’s whole weave teaching and dedicated to destroying the Magisterium and replacing it with it Americanist Christianism in service to the rich and powerful: Rather than listening to the Magisterium […]

Your Saturday Dose of “That’s Not Something You See Every Day!”

Say what you will, Catholics throw the best parties.

Feast of the Conversion of St. Paul

Acts 9:1-9 But Saul, still breathing threats and murder against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest and asked him for letters to the synagogues at Damascus, so that if he found any belonging to the Way, men or women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem. Now as he journeyed he […]

The Feast of the Holy Child Martyrs of Covington

I appreciate this salient tweet: The highly selective Concern of the MAGA cult is disgusting and laughable.  They have ginned themselves into a royal Panic du Jour.  The Prez has reliably done his bit to shout “Fake News“. And the MAGA Media are reliably doing their bit to Horst Wessellize the kids into mascots for […]

C.S. Lewis reads The Four Loves

This is very cool.  One of the few remaining recordings of Lewis’ voice (sounding a bit like Hitchcock) and reading from one of his best books. His non-fiction is not as well known these days as his fiction, particularly The Chronicles of Narnia. I recently re-read his Till We Have Faces, which is, to my […]

Jennifer Rubin is right and wrong

She is right in that she opposes the racist Freak Show that is the Cult of Trump. But she is wrong in that she is trying, as so many conservatives are trying, to minimize the catastrophe that so-called “conservatives” are 100% responsible for creating. She writes a piece here in which she says that a […]

Covington, MAGA, the Simpsons, and the Gomer Pyle Axiom of High and Low Expectations

Watching the shifting narrative over the past three days reminds me of this: People responded to the initial videos of the Covington kids with outrage, including me. Then the Right Wing media rode in with a bigger picture and an even bigger agenda. The bigger picture pointed out that the biggest villains of the piece […]

It’s been 56 years…

…and the racist freak show that is the antichrist Christianist Cult of Trump still makes the same bullshit arguments to defend its oppression of the brown and poor. And Martin Luther King, Jr. still calls out their bullshit: One of the basic points in your statement is that the action that I and my associates […]

Sorting Out the Covington Narratives

Fr. James Martin does a pretty reasonable job of picking over the emerging narratives: Re #CovingtonHighSchool: I will be happy to apologize for condemning the actions of the students if it turns out that they were somehow acting as good and moral Christians. The last thing I want is to see Catholic schools and Catholic […]