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March 5, 2020
Fasting Friday: Isaiah 58 and a Reader’s Lament
A reader (who is Catholic and staunchly opposed to abortion) describes the real and lasting legacy of MAGA “prolife” Christian witness. She writes: There’s a lot of phoniness in this world and all of it is irksome, but perhaps no phoniness is quite as nauseating as pro life phoniness. I’m working poor and chronically ill. […]
March 3, 2020
Prayer Wednesday: Prophylactic vs. Prelude
It has become a truism that whenever pious hypocrites want to avoid actually doing something they know they should do but don’t want to do they offer… Thoughts and prayers are the #1 GOP prophylactic against ever actually using their immense power to change things to, you know, change things. It is the code language […]
March 1, 2020
Almsgiving Monday: St. John Chrysostom: Komminniss
“I am often reproached for continually attacking the rich. Yes, because the rich are continually attacking the poor. But those I attack are not the rich as such, only those who misuse their wealth. I point out constantly that those I accuse are not the rich but the rapacious. Wealth is one thing, covetousness another. […]
February 28, 2020
More information on Ish Kabibble and his odd relationship with MAD Magazine than any normal person could want
… is just what this blog needs on a Saturday morning. Who or what is Ish Kabibble, you ask? Precisely what I was wondering myself after my wife, as is her custom, wandered through the house in a cold-induced haze, muttering the mysterious incantation. I’d heard it before and had the vague impression it was […]
February 27, 2020
Dorothy Day, Post-Abortive Member of Communion of Saints
Over on the Book of Face I had a conversation with somebody about the Dorothy Day documentary. Dorothy Day was a post-abortive woman who came to regret and repent her abortion. The faith assures us that Jesus Christ forgives any sin of any person who comes to him. But many Catholics do not really believe […]
February 26, 2020
The Fields are White for Harvest
On March 6, godless, liberal, anti-Christian PBS, bent on the destruction of really truly true Christianity like all liberal media, is doing a big documentary on Servant of God Dorothy Day. It is notable how Martin Doblmeier, the guy who made the film, speaks of her: The woman who co-founded The Catholic Worker newspaper and […]
February 25, 2020
Ash Wednesday
I Because I do not hope to turn again Because I do not hope Because I do not hope to turn Desiring this man’s gift and that man’s scope I no longer strive to strive towards such things (Why should the agèd eagle stretch its wings?) Why should I mourn The vanished power of the […]
February 24, 2020
A Revolutionary Idea for Catholics: Try Listening to the Pope
Over at Where Peter Is, the always-reliably-sound D.W. Lafferty proposes an idea so shocking and revolutionary that, if implemented, it could revolutionize the Church in a way that is both revolutionary and also capable of bringing about a revolution in the Church. Try listening to the Pope. Actually listening. As in “with charity and a […]
February 23, 2020
A good conversation with a reader
He writes: Hey Mark, You may or may not remember me by my name, and we’ve never met in person, but I’ve been a reader of yours for years (and we’re Facebook friends!) and I’ve appreciated and learned a lot from your take on American Politics and its relationship to Church teaching. Hi! Sorry for my […]
February 21, 2020
John Oliver on Medicare for All
It is strange to live in a time where the best teachers of civics are comedians:
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