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Monday Meditation for Holy Week: Against Martian Paganism

This is a lie: Back in the day, Christians stated clearly that that God created man to know him, love him, and serve him in this life and to be eternally happy with him in the next. Back when Christians were formed by the tradition and not by FOX news and the Federalist, war was […]

Today, because of the courage of a bunch of kids who stood up to the Gun Cult

There will be 837 marches happening around the gl0be to demand sanity from the United States of America and its insane gun regime. The Gun Cult and its wholly owned subsidiary, the GOP, has made an implacable enemy of a whole generation of kids who clearly understand that the GOP does not care if they […]

Christopher Tollefsen is a wonderful voice of sanity

He works in a different part of the Vineyard from me. The soil he tills is richer and has people of good will like David French in it, willing to really try to work for the common good. The soil I till is full of rocks and deals with far more elementary moral divides in […]

Judging the Fruits

So we are past a year into the most prolifeyest administration in the history of ever.  Some of us remember when Constantine Redivivus was going to save us all from certain death at the hands of Diocletian Clinton.  This was the Flight 93 election.  Vote Trump or die horribly in searing pain!!!!  All the stops […]

Well, this should be fun!

My friend Pete Vere has a new blog here at Patheos: Orthodoxy in Communion With Rome: Tales from the life of a Byzantine Catholic canonist moonlighting as a professional wrestling referee Pete is, as the subtitle suggests, a card. He is also a Canuck, which makes his perspective a source of sanity for me, because […]

The Doubt of John the Baptist

My latest at Catholic Weekly.  Here’s a taste: The best definition of a Gospel I have ever heard is “a passion narrative with a long introduction”. That is to say, a quarter of the ink spilt in every Gospel concerns a 72-hour period in the life of Jesus of Nazareth: from Holy Thursday to Easter. A […]

If the world is wise…

…they will begin gearing up now to oppose the war our Idiot-in-Chief and his lunatic advisor John Bolton are planning to launch: But the strong likelihood that Donald Trump will now choose John Bolton as his next national security advisor creates a prospect of war with Iran that is very real. Bolton is no ordinary […]

Just a reminder….

That God is still a God who chooses and elects and that the Preferential Option for the Poor is really a thing. This upsets people–especially wealthy people–who discern in it the sinister sound of Marxism and Class War and urge us to believe the poor are lazy parasites and the rich have what is best […]

GOP offers to let Prolife Christianists kick the football

Results of the ‘pro-life’ party’s omnibus bill. Support for Planned Parenthood funding (for the sixth time!  Congratulations, President Trump, Most Prolife President Ever!). No conscience protections. Are we tired of winning yet? To get a man’s soul and give him nothing in return–that is what truly gladdens the heart of Our Father Below. – Uncle […]

My friend Marcus Daly needs our help

You may remember Marcus from this video: A few weeks ago, Marcus severed 2 1/2 fingers in an accident.  This directly impacts his livelihood.  So now he writes: Dear Friends, As many of you know, 3 weeks ago, while building coffins in my shop, I cut 2 ½ fingers off my left hand. Surgeons spent […]