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“Traditional Catholic Masculinity”

A reader writes: "I just got kicked out of a group for a fight I had with an antisemite. The moderators were sympathetic… Posted by Mark Shea on Friday, February 21, 2020 Centipede: how do you walk? Consciously thinking about certain things is a sign of insecurity. It is the foreigner who has to think about […]

Catholic Reactionaries and Jew Hatred are like Peas and Carrots

Go to a Reactionary Catholic site (typically billing itself as Traditionalist and usually spending a lot of time on conspiracy theories and Francis hatred) and you nearly always find that these specimens of the Greatest Catholics of All Time spend an enormous amount of time hating Jews, theorizing about Jewish conspiracies, fearing Jews, accusing Jews, […]

Yes, You Can Eat Halal Cooking

In a post a couple of months ago, Fr. Z tackles the question of whether Good Catholics can eat halal cooking. The occasion of the discussion is that Evil Pope Francis had a banquet for 1500 of Rome’s poor and, like a considerate host, made sure the food was acceptable to the Muslims who came. […]

The illusion of the conservative white American Christian majority

Just a reminder that MAGA Evangelicals, like the Greatest Catholics of All Time, are a tiny minority whom the temporary accidents of American wealth and a gigantic American media microphone have allowed to drown out the rest of their fellow Christians on the global stage (many of whom their policies are helping to persecute and […]

Pseudo-Profundity from Fake Voltaire

One of the marks of the Right Wing Herd of Independent Thinkers is its lockstep conformity in believing any lie their folk heroes tell them while being Deeply Skeptical of what Normals call “actual journalism” but they reactively declare to be “Fake News”.  Case in point: This meme has been endlessly circulated by Alt Right […]

In Honor of Presidents Day…

I give you Jonathan Coulton’s Educational Song, “The Presidents”: I was a weird kid. In addition, to completely re-typing the entire text of The War of the Worlds one fall in 9th grade (by hunt-and-peck, no less!), I also once memorized the entire text of the Declaration of Independence in 8th grade, this entire song: […]

In Honor of Valentine’s Day…

Here is the most awesome proposal in the history of Proposaldom:

Happy St. Valentines Day!

Remember: Every Himmler needs a Hermler.

Simcha Fisher reports on a bizarre and abusive children’s book

It’s called The Seed Who Was Afraid to be Planted and is, by some crazy random happenstance, authored by Anthony DeStefano (Frank Pavone’s right hand man at Priests for Life) and published by Sophia Institute Press (which gave the world the fear-mongering conspiracy theories of Taylor Marshall’s nutty Infiltration).  It’s endorsed by a bunch of […]

The Bilko Party

Back in 1996, Steve Martin did a remake of Sergeant Bilko, the great Phil Silvers character who is the biggest con man in the US Army. One scene that always sticks with me as the perfect metaphor of the GOP abortion strategy comes where Sergeant Bilko is trying to threaten somebody while having zero intention […]