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Happy Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe!

Beautiful little film on the Orthodox Church in Russia

This was released a couple months ago in celebration of the 100th Anniversary of Fatima: Why am I only posting it now? Because I am a dork who has totally let his email get away from him. But it’s still a cool video!

Talking about hatred with a reader

He writes: I’m writing something about loving (and hating) our enemies, and I wonder if you ever feel that Trump or the anti-abortion but not pro-life segment risk becoming hated enemies? People who do hateful, evil things certainly risk becoming hated enemies and Trump and his party of thieving, wicked Christianists certainly do all that. […]

Please help a little girl with serious health issues

A reader writes: Mark, will you do me a favor please and share this fundraiser on your page? It’s my godchild’s family. She has major health issues and they’ve been served with eviction papers for daring to demand that their landlord remediate the black mold growing in their house. I’d sure appreciate it. Thanks! You […]

Bravo to Dave Armstrong!

…for coming completely on board with the Church’s position on the death penalty. He now completely rejects it: My position for as long as I can remember has been against the death penalty, except in the case of mass murderers and terrorists. I was more generally in favor of it in the past (not sure how long […]

Doug O’Brien and I talk about helping the least of these

…in an age of Christianist contempt for the poor and vulnerable: If you do not see Christ in the beggar at the Church door, you will not find him in the Chalice. – St. John Chrysostem

Why Marian Dogmas?

Yr. Obdt. Svt. on the Church Marian dogmas over at Northwest Catholic: A great deal of confusion surrounds the four Marian dogmas, not only concerning the meaning of Mary, but also concerning the meaning of dogma. Dogma does not mean the forbiddance of thought, but the conclusion — it’s what you get when you have thought something through to the […]

Missing the Wry Christ

…in which we finish up the series looking at Christ and the Canaanite Woman. Last time, we saw that the Church to which Matthew writes has been grappling for decades with the question of the relationship of Jew and Gentile in the early Church, particularly in the Holy Land where Jewish ethnocentrism encouraged the idea […]

Christianist Roy Moore Conspiracy Theorists

Christianism is a political cult centered on the worship of Donald Trump and his party of thieves and liars.  It functions by using the forms and imagery of Christianity while in fact making war on the Faith.  Paul calls it “having a form of godliness but denying its power” (2 Timothy 3:5).  So it has no […]

Bishop Robert Barron Bonanza!

He looks at what is happening at Mass: So what is the Mass? What happens during this paradigmatic prayer? Why is it the beginning and culmination of what it means to be a Christian? In the course of this brief article, I will share just a couple of basic insights. First, the Mass is a privileged encounter […]