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March 21, 2020
Deep Fake Doctor Who Impressions
It’s not perfect, but its still pretty amazing. And the guy is really good impressionist: This, like all technology, has the potential for great good–and great evil: In a world where some of the cleverest people are pumping out lies constantly and the dumbest people are chanting “FAKE NEWS” about real news while swallowing lies […]
March 20, 2020
Thoughts on COVID and the Alleged Judgment of God
Pedro Gabriel (who is, by the way, a Portuguese doctor who knows whereof he speaks concerning COVID-19) responds to the repulsive, unbiblical, anti-Catholic and evil logic of Taylor Marshall concerning the Pandemic and the Church’s extremely wise decisions to ban public Masses: “Apocalyptic thought: This may be the Judgment of God. Pachamama leads to suspension […]
Fasting Friday: The Spirit and the Letter
The rules for fasting and abstinence in the United States are: Every person 14 years or older must abstain from meat (and items made with meat) on Ash Wednesday, Good Friday, and all the Fridays of Lent. Every person between the age of 18 and 59 (beginning of 60th year) must fast on Ash Wednesday and Good Friday. Them’s the rules. But […]
March 18, 2020
Prayer Wednesday: Protestant MegaChurch Guy Discovers the Real Presence
It’s always enjoyable to watch a good-hearted person start to discover the historical Church and what it actually believed and taught. The realization that you’ve got the story almost exactly backwards can be a jolt, but it can also liberating, like a bone popping back into its socket and feeling right for the first time […]
March 16, 2020
Almsgiving Monday: An Argument About the Old “What About Putting Vets, Not Refugees, First?” Lie
Almsgiving is, above all, about seeing and taking practical steps to care for those who have nobody to look out for them. Jesus Christ tells us that what we do to the least of these–good or evil–we do to him. No sincere effort, even if it means giving only two copper coins, goes unseen by […]
March 14, 2020
Since it’s Saturday…
I decided to just post one joke that cracked me up: But then I thought about this, which also cracked me up: and that brought me to this: All dumb. But I like dumb.
March 13, 2020
Fasting Friday: Ten Meaningful Ways to Fast During Lent
Here’s a nifty piece that might be of help if you find fasting to be mysterious and frustrating and hard to connect with God and other people: 1. Don’t buy anything that you don’t NEED. If you can live without it, you don’t need it. Give it up for Lent. Put the money that you would […]
March 11, 2020
Prayer Wednesday : A reader struggles with scruples about Netflix
Prayer is about the conversation of the soul with God, and that often includes wrestling our consciences before God. Not for nothing is one of the great images in Scripture the strange tale of Jacob wrestling with an angel. Not for nothing is his other name–given by God himself–Israel: He who struggles with God. I […]
March 9, 2020
Almsgiving Monday: For those of you fascinated by super-duper theological Inside Baseball…
…here is a draft of my stab at explaining the Filioque Controversy to somebody who has never heard of it–from my upcoming book on the Creed. I post it as a form of almsgiving on the somewhat weak excuse that we are to give of our time, talent, and treasure. Silver and gold I do […]
March 6, 2020
Bass Reeves, Badass of the Old West
So here’s a fascinating guy for a Saturday morning:
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