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Signs of Hope

Reader (and soon to be author) Stephanie Thomas writes: I live my faith by working with women and girls who beg on street corners with cardboard signs. I lead a team of women who go out onto the streets to pray and minister to the people who are begging there. I’ve spent 8 years working […]

The whole Western Tradition….

up until Ayn Rand agreed that, whatever else may be the case, feeding the poor was a good thing.  It took the genius of the Freak Show Right and and its Court Prophet Christianist predators like Paul Ryan to elevate this wretched enemy of God and her philosophy of Selfishness to a virtue: That this […]

You have made us for yourself, O Lord…

…and our hearts are restless till they rest in you. – St. Augustine A brilliant animator is asking the question to which Christ remains the answer: The tragedy for the foreseeable future is that, in the West, Christianism is the loud and temporarily dominant gospel of antichrist which is 100% oriented toward turning people away […]

Prudential Judgment and Minimum Daily Adult Catholicism

Here’s the first in a little series I’ve written for The Catholic Weekly about how to navigate the Church’s moral teaching in a time when many have lost confidence in the Magisterium. Here’s a taste.  Stay tuned.  There are three more in the series: Here’s a little passage from Lumen Gentium you don’t hear much about these […]

Love is what binds participants in the Blessed Trinity together

This is a basic article of the faith.  He that loveth not, knoweth not God, for God is love, says St. John. Conversely, Christianism, which is a diabolical parody of the gospel centered around the worship of Donald Trump is bound together by cruelty: The Trump era is such a whirlwind of cruelty that it […]

The Corruption of Humor in the Kingdom of Cruelty

Uncle Screwtape talks about the uses of humor in hell: My dear Wormwood, Everything is clearly going very well. I am specially glad to hear that the two new friends have now made him acquainted with their whole set. All these, as I find from the record office, are thoroughly reliable people; steady, consistent scoffers […]

The Shea Legend of the Blackfoot Indian Princess

When I was growing up in the Family Shea I was taught that somewhere back there in the family tree was not merely a Blackfoot Indian, but a Blackfoot Indian princess. I did not question this particularly, being 12 or so, but neither did I dwell on it much. It was a factoid, one of […]

Where Peter Is….

…on the dogged dishonesty of the Francis Haters: Viganò claimed that Benedict imposed canonical sanctions on McCarrick, which Francis lifted. Viganò told us to ask Ouellet about it. Ouellet said it is false that there were canonical sanctions on McCarrick. The dissenter’s conclusion: Ouellet has just proven there were canonical sanctions! Pedro Gabriel’s take on […]

Francis-Hatred and the Drip, Drip, Drip of Girardian Scapegoating

C.S. Lewis remarks on the way in which our dislike of somebody can take on a hellish momentum: “Suppose one reads a story of filthy atrocities in the paper. Then suppose that something turns up suggesting that the story might not be quite true, or not quite so bad as it was made out. Is […]

Pope St. Paul VI: Bridge Builder

Here’s a taste of a piece I wrote on Pope Paul VI, who will be canonized a saint tomorrow, along with Oscar Romero, the great Salvadoran martyr (to American brutalist policy in Central America, but that’s another story): On October 14, 2018, Pope Francis will canonize Pope Paul VI, along with martyred Salvadoran Archbishop Oscar […]