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I keep getting asked what I mean by “Christianism”

Signorelli: Antichrist and the Devil A Christianist is an adherent of a political cultus centered on Donald Trump and informed by a magisterium of FOX, right wing talk radio and right wing social media, which uses Christian imagery and jargon in the service of a diabolical antichrist gospel of racism, war, torture apologetics, gun fanaticism, […]

Proud of my State!

The Washington State Supreme Court just ruled the death penalty unconstitutional, thereby abolishing the death penalty in Washington State. Hooray for the progress of the gospel and the protection of all human life from conception to natural death!

Bp. Robert Barron, as usual, makes a lot of sense to me

He was in Rome last week, talking about what a new apologetics should look like: What would a new apologetics look like? First, it would arise from the questions that young people spontaneously ask. It would not be imposed from above but would rather emerge organically from below, a response to the yearning of the […]

I got to be an Archetypal Hero this week

So last Monday, Columbus Day, my wife and I go to Mass.  Our parish is not far from a trail I enjoy walking called “Candy Cane Park Trail”.  It’s a lovely, leafy canyon that cuts right through my suburban middle class neighborhood.  Full of maples, alders, and various evergreens like spruce, hemlock, and Douglas Fir, […]

Hey Renton, WA! I’m coming your way tomorrow night

I will be speaking at St. Anthony’s in Renton, WA at 7:00 PM on Wednesday, October 10, 2018!  Mark your calendar and don’t miss it if you can! I’ll be talking about the Family as the Icon of the Blessed Trinity! The family is the closest image we have to the life of the Blessed […]

Rebecca Hamilton on the Freedom of Post-Kavanaugh Christians

She remarks on how the appointment of Kavanaugh frees us from the lie “V0te GOP or the Baby Gets It”: The fact is that there are now — count them — one, two, three, four, five handpicked, vetted, promised ones on the Court. We have paid with our souls, our ability to think, our fidelity […]

It’s important to have three perspectives…

…on why Peeves is allowed to stay at Hogwarts.  So I have filled this vital need for today: No need to thank me!

Susan Collins Gave a Masterful Account of the GOP’s Betrayal and Seduction of the Prolife Movement

Start at the 14:10 mark Note how the gullible sucker fist-pumping about her EXPLOSIVE testimony (cuz it means Cult 45 wins and Kavanaugh is confirmed) is stone deaf to what Sen. Collins actually had to say about the history of the GOP’s seduction of the “prolife” movement and its transformation into the backbone of the […]

Elizabeth Bruenig on the Dissolution of our Culture of Lies

Back in 2011, the “prolife” movement that now forms the backbone of Trumpism chose to definitively commit itself to Lying for Jesus as a core strategy.  I warned at the time that this was a massively stupid idea, as did others.  We were, of course, shouted down as fake Catholics and babykillers by the Greatest […]

1 Percenters attempt to buy control of the Church

I remember, a month and a half ago when, for a brief moment, conservative white “prolife” Catholics pretended to care about sexual assault victims because the PA report had come out. Then Vigano lied about Francis (the one man who acted against McCarrick) lifting sanctions Vigano pretended to have enforced against McCarrick. For, like, a […]