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Amazing What a Pretty Face Can Get Away With

People are apparently going gaga for butcher Kim Jong Un’s sister. Reuters: “North Korea has emerged as the early favorite to grab one of the Winter Olympics’ most important medals: the diplomatic gold.” CNN: “Kim Jong Un’s sister is stealing the show at the Winter Olympics!” Business Insider: “From her “side-eye” of US Vice President […]

Scripture for an Ash Wednesday Massacre

Re: thoughts and prayer from bought and paid for pols, Right Wing Noise Machine Liars, and NRA accomplices to today’s slaughter, a reading from the prophet Isaiah: Hear the word of the LORD, you rulers of Sodom! Give ear to the teaching of our God, you people of Gomorrah! “What to me is the multitude […]

Jason Bach’s Got You Covered

…for all your VaLENTine needs: For more Valentine’s Day goodness from the fertile brain of Jason Bach, go here, here, here, and here.

Scott Stantis on “Connecting the Dots”

Part two of our Hostage Exchange as I host Scott Stantis on my podcast after he hosted me on his.  Scott is the author of the “Prickly City” strip, the editorial cartoonist for the Chicago Tribune–and a Catholic convert of some 10 years.  You can some of his work below:

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Yesterday I was on Scott Stantis’ podcast

Which you can listen to here. Scott is the editorial cartoonist for the Chicago Tribune and the author of the “Prickly City” cartoon strip. He is also a convert and a fan of this blog, so we decided to do a hostage exchange. I did his podcast and he did mine. I’m posting the link […]

Imaginary Good and Real Evil

In his essay, “The World’s Last Night” C.S. Lewis reflects on the possibility of Judgment Day–of God interrupting all our consequentialist plans to do evil right now for the sake of some imaginary Future Rosy Dawn with his very concrete judgment for what we are, in fact, actually doing, thusly: I can imagine no man […]

For Lepers Outside the Camp

The readings yesterday were profoundly moving to me. As you may or may not know, the Church typically chooses the Sunday readings in order to highlight the point Jesus made to the disciples on the first Easter: Then he said to them, “These are my words which I spoke to you, while I was still […]

Remember, O Valentine…

that I have a piece on the weird juxtaposition of Valentine’s Day and Ash Wednesday up over at the Catholic Weekly: Still and all, the strange juxtaposition of Ash Wednesday–replete with reminders of death, self-abnegation, ashes, and fasting—with Valentine’s Day and its chocolates, lovey-dovey mush, and romance is actually strangely Christian. Jesus, after all, calls […]

An unjust law is no law at all – St. Augustine

We seem to have arrived at a period in our history where mayors and local councils of local communities are the principal bulwark we have against the authoritarian dictator of the Party of Small Government. Earlier this week Supreme Maximum Leader Misogynous Bonespurs decided that in addition to blowing huge sums of money on a […]