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Dang! This is great!

While the Christianist cult of Reactionary Catholics congeals into an Inquisition bent on purging and kicking out everybody in the Church, including the pope, actual Catholics are laboring to evangelize.  Here’s a rather startling example of the most visible Catholic evangelist in the secular sphere: One of the reasons the pope is so deeply hated […]

Of Forerunners and Foreshadows

In which I apply my mighty BA in English to the figure of John the Baptist for a four-part series in celebration of Advent: The season of Advent is bound up with the figure of John the Baptist or (as he is known in the East) John the Forerunner. He is a curious figure if, […]

Handy follow up to yesterday’s post on the inherent racism of the Gun Cult

Predictably, the quarrel in the comboxes was all about pretending that our Gun Cult is not ordered toward enforcing the racism that the Cult of Trump now flagrantly adores. Eppur si muove. – Galileo I know, I know. “I thought this was a Catholic blog! Why are you talking about this political crap all the […]

Recognizing and repenting a pattern of evil

Here’s an absolutely typical story about a Dad and his two kids who were arrested and humiliate for Shopping While Black. This daily reality in Trump’s Amerikkka is steadfastly met, every single day, by conservatives who whinge that seeing that reality every single day is “playing the race card” and who then complain that they […]

A One Act Response to Micah 3:1-12

…called The Flesh from Their Bones by my friend Laura Pittenger: For more information on Micah, the play, and Laura, go here.

Partly because I’m lazy and it’s Monday after Thanksgiving, and I’m working on a huge project

…but mostly because this truly is amazing, here is Overly Sarcastic Productions’ astonishing summary of the Chinese epic, Journey to the West (so far).  No need to thank me:

Some Psalms of Thanksgiving, In Honor of the Day

Praise the LORD! For it is good to sing praises to our God; for he is gracious, and a song of praise is seemly. The LORD builds up Jerusalem; he gathers the outcasts of Israel. He heals the brokenhearted, and binds up their wounds. He determines the number of the stars, he gives to all […]

Thanksgiving and the Puritan Paradox

This week’s piece for the Catholic Weekly, in honor of Thanksgiving: On November 22, we Yanks will be celebrating Thanksgiving. It’s not quite an exclusively American feast. Our Canadian neighbours celebrate it too, but in October, which I think is more sensible since eating turkey twice in one month (November 22 and December 25) is a […]

The Curious Reality of Christian and Diabolical Ecumenism

One of the things I have noted in the past is the phenomenon of Satanic ecumenism: the way in which people who hate each other are brought together in their mutual hostility to the things of God.  We see it when the Pharisees and the Herodians conspire to kill Jesus.  We see it when Pilate […]

So Here’s a Joyous Story!

One of my readers, Ross Earl Hoffman, knew a good thing when he saw it and married another of my readers, Fausta Nalubega.  He’s from Idaho.  She live in Uganda and is magnificent saint leading a community of other saints.  It’s a marriage made possible by the internet and shared Catholic faith. So anyway, Ross […]