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Pete Vere on Phil Lawler’s Ongoing War on the Holy Father

The Confusion is Self-Promotional: Another day, another Phil Lawler bomb lobbed at Pope Francis. Another online article accusing the Holy Father of undermining orthodox Catholic teaching, causing confusion in the Church, and other alarmist sensationalism. Here we go… again. Oh yes, and another concluding paragraph self-promoting Lawler’s new book. A book that paints Francis as […]

The Irish Vote

So I’ve been on vacation since last Thursday at our Hidden Island Redoubt. As photographic evidence, I offer this picture of grand-daughterly bliss: One of the things I customarily do when I will be away is try to load various bits of Interesting Things into the hopper ahead of time.  Then it feeds out on […]

This is America

This is a bus for babies snatched away from their parents at the border by our sadistic border policies. This is happening in our country, to the orgasmic joy of Good White Christianists who now blasphemously declare Trump to be the Fulfilment of Prophecy. And while it does, the author of this policy of vindictive, […]

A reader objects to my distinction between Christian and Christianist

He writes: I am a long time reader and follower of your blog.  You’re book, By What Authority, had a large part in my return to the Catholic Church.  Thank you for that.  Your consistent stand that we should follow all Catholic teaching has often challenged me and bright me back into alignment with our […]

Seeing as how it’s Memorial Day, Lemme Post in Honor of My Dad

My Dad was up for three days straight on D-Day, servicing waves of aircraft bombing Normandy.  My Dad woke up in a cold sweat for years after the war, the sound of bombs in his dreams still ringing in his ears. My basic reason for wanting to destroy the GOP? My Dad put up with […]

My friend Kelly Scott Franklin has published his first book!

The Shattered Fountain showcases the literary genius and spiritual power of the distinguished American novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne through ten of his best short stories. Featuring prominently in the American Romance movement, Hawthorne eschews the vapid optimism in the human spirit and affairs espoused by many of his contemporaries. Instead, as these selected tales show, Hawthorne honed […]

An Irish reader sends along a BBC piece on Irish Wakes

You can see it here. In addition, he sends this along: https://wordwellbooks.com/ A book about dying and death in Ireland from Wordwell As a race, the Irish have the reputation of “doing death well”. Taking its cue from this somewhat dubious distinction, this volume explores the relationship of the Irish people with death from the […]

Nice to get mail like this

A reader writes: I have to thank you for pushing me towards embracing Pope Francis, you are the only person that I read regularly that has done that, and I think its been really beneficial to me. I’ve read all of his officially writings including his most recent Gaudete et Exsultate, which has been my […]

A Royal Wedding Bad Lip Reading

I love these things so much!

What Evangelizing Culture Looks Like

Bishop Robert Barron continues his good work: