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Some Bad News

There’s been a death in the St. Blog’s family, one that has a lot of personal impact for me:  Zippy Catholic has died, killed in a bicycling accident. I got to know Zippy better than one normally does in blogging.  We even met a couple of times and I visited his home in Virginia. Zippy […]

The Last Installment of My Series on God the Father…

over at The Catholic Weekly: In Christ, God himself takes the lowest place along with every forgotten murder victim, every bullied kid, every weeping refugee–and even every raging persecutor like Saul of Tarsus.  The Almighty was never mightier than when he submitted to this kind of humiliation and death—and conquered it with love and mercy […]

Sexual Abuse Whiplash

To recap: Last week we were supposed to accept the screams for resignation of the only pope to act against McCarrick because a guy with a known grudge said so, even though he refused to provide any evidence and changed his story multiple times and even though that man himself did nothing about McCarrick when […]

Inner Conversion vs. Outer Force

If you are looking for a good film to watch, may I recommend Amazing Grace, the story of William Wilberforce, the English Evangelical who did, almost by sheer force of character alone, what it would take all the slaughter of our Civil War to achieve: the destruction of the English slave trade. I am fascinated […]

It’s weird how much Chomsky sounds like Chesterton sometimes

The materialist theory of history, that all politics and ethics are the expression of economics, is a very simple fallacy indeed. It consists simply of confusing the necessary conditions of life with the normal preoccupations of life, that are quite a different thing. It is like saying that because a man can only walk about […]

Why the Old Prolife Movement Keeps Failing

From a piece called “Abortion and the Left“: After all, if one truly cares about ending abortions, the first task would be to examine the reasons women seek them. When women who abort are asked why they do not want to have a child, 74 percent say that having a child would interfere with education, […]

Today’s Orwellian Headline

U.S. inmate executed using fentanyl for 1st time There appeared to be no complications from the procedure, according to witnesses America: Where “complications” means “continuing to live”.

Hey Boston! I’m coming your way!

Hope you can come!  And if you are interested in getting together for lunch on 9/25, just say so in the comboxes and we’ll see what we can set up!

Cue “Germans, Amirite?” boilerplate.

Ideologues will read this as proving that churches and people perceived as “liberal” are the locus of the problem because such ideologues are immune to any understanding of the problem involving data and facts and insist on using their template of “This is all the fault of gays and liberals, who are basically all the […]

The Incredibly Sketchy Abp. Vigano and Church Militant Have a Bridge to Sell You

When last we heard from Church Militant they were absolutely certain that shadowy forces were just about to spirit Cdl. Wuerl away to Rome in a super-secret clandestine operation, never to be seen again!  It was all breathlessly reported by that other bastion of Total Reliability, Liesite News: Church Militant claims Cdl. Wuerl fleeing to […]