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Yep. It is vital to understand that Trump is a Cult Leader

…and his movement is a Cult, far closer to a religious or messianic movement than a political one: And the greatest tragedy is that the Cult is almost totally composed of Christians who have rejected the gospel in favor of the worship of this visible from space moron, mob boss, sex predator, liar, grifter and […]

Yep. It is vital to understand that Trump is a Cult Leader

…and his movement is a Cult, far closer to a religious or messianic movement than a political one: And the greatest tragedy is that the Cult is almost totally composed of Christians who have rejected the gospel in favor of the worship of this visible from space moron, mob boss, sex predator, liar, grifter and […]

Kavanaugh Joins Court Majority to cast pivotal vote…

…to rule in favor of Planned Parenthood. So, to recap: Our abortion regime is 100% the creation of the GOP. The state of California legalized it in 1967, courtesy of Governor Ronald Reagan. When Roe was decided, all the Democratic appointees could have been using the loo and it would have still been made the […]

Mazeltov to my Jewish Readers

Something rather amazing for the last day of Hanukkah.

The Virgin by William Wordworth

Mother! whose virgin bosom was uncrost With the least shade of thought to sin allied; Woman! above all women glorified, Our tainted nature’s solitary boast; Purer than foam on central ocean tost; Brighter than eastern skies at daybreak strewn With fancied roses, than the unblemished moon Before her wane begins on heaven’s blue coast; Thy […]

John the Baptiser

My second in a series on the greatest saint of the Old Covenant: John the Baptist baptised. That is the core fact we know about him. Aside from the occasional painting of his head on a platter, every piece of artwork we have shows him baptising people. This is one of the curious features of […]

The Catholic Apologetics Subculture has developed spiritual lupus

Lupus is an autoimmune disorder in which the systems that are supposed to defend the body from pathogens start regarding the body as a pathogen and attacking it. A subculture that now regards the Holy Father as the greatest enemy of the faith on planet earth while cheering for this as well as lying to […]

Simcha Fisher on the growing tolerance of anti-semitism among Catholics

She’s perfectly right, of course. Anybody with a drop of Jewish is right to be worried. And any Catholic not actively fighting this filth should be ashamed. Antisemitism is in the Church. Catholics who aren’t antisemites are obligated to reject even the smallest hint of it, whenever it turns up. Even if it was unintentional; […]

I did not know that Alan Watts, of all people, had a deep appreciation of Chesterton

I’m skeptical that Watts really grokked Chesterton and think Chesterton would have vehemently disagreed that gnosis is about wonder. (Gnosis is about master of secret knowledge. And one of the by-products of that is the destruction of wonder. When you pull a thing apart to see how it works, the inveterate response of human beings […]

An African Cardinal Pushes Back Against Raymond Arroyo

Raymond Arroyo (pictured here failing yet another audition for FOX News, where he dreams of working full-time)… (I love the way Ingraham just abandons him to his fate–a finely honed skill for FOX “journalists” when their colleagues fall.) Anyway… Raymond Arroyo got chewed out by South African Cardinal Wilfrid Napier: Should read: “The World Over” […]