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Women Priests and Witches

Church of England women priests have joined Episcopal Presiding Bishop Katherine Jefferts Schori at a conference with a witch and a man married to a Muslim man. Ruth Gledhill reports here A leading witch and herbalist shared a Church of England platform last night with other women religious leaders including the Presiding Bishop of the [Read More...]

Catholic Marxism – The Sequel

Conservative Catholics bite their nails when connections are made between Marxism and Pope Francis. They’re nervous about the recent beatification of Archbishop Romero because they worry that he was a secret devotee of liberation theology. They’re not very happy with some of Pope Francis’ appointments to his Vatican Fellowship of the Ring–the nine cardinals he [Read More...]

Cardinal Marx Holds Secret Vatican Conference to Sway Synod

Edward Pentin reports for National Catholic Register on what seems to be a secret Vatican Conference hosted by Cardinal Reinhard Marx on the topic of same sex marriage, re-married divorced Catholics and “the theology of love” which is to replace Pope St John Paul II’s “theology of the body” A one-day study meeting — open [Read More...]

How to Be a Creative Conservative

My latest article for Intercollegiate Review explains how to be a creative conservative I know, I know. Conservatives are harsh, judgmental, close-minded, homophobic, misogynist, creationist and fundamentalist Christians who have scrawny girls with buck teeth and meathead boys with zip-up Bibles. I know, I know. Conservatives are all slightly paranoid about “liberals” and are in [Read More...]

Is It Time to Hunker Down?

  As Ireland votes overwhelmingly for same sex marriage and the rest of the Western world, it seems, can’t wait to follow their example, is it time to throw in the towel in the cultural slugfest? As radical Islam advances giving us nightmares and as the economic “recovery” looks increasingly shaky is it time to [Read More...]

If You Believe in Fairies…

…clap your hands. You  may remember that episode in Peter Pan when Tinkerbell is about to perish and all the children in the audience are asked to clap their hands if they believe in fairies. Their clapping makes Tinkerbell come back to life. Tinkerbell seems to have invaded the mindset of modern man. That is to say, [Read More...]

Give More Money For Heaven’s Sake!

Stop and think for a moment. Why are we commanded (its not an option) to give sacrificially to the work of the church? Most people assume its because the church has to pay the bills, the priest needs a salary, the church needs a new roof and we have to help the poor people. Yes [Read More...]

It’s All or Nuthin’

My article at The Imaginative Conservative this week compares St Therese of Lisieux with Friedrich Nietzsche In the musical Oklahoma! Ado Annie and Will Parker sing, “With Me It’s All or Nuthin’ is it All or Nuthin’ With You?” I like to imagine the duet being sung by Thérèse of Lisieux and Friedrich Nietzsche. I can just [Read More...]

The Catholic Pentecostal Church

Is it ‘me and Jesus’ or ‘me and the Church’? This is the question of ecclesiology and the difference between Catholics and Protestants on this issue is illustrated by two different perspectives on Pentecost. I think it is fair to say that most Protestants do not have an ecclesiology, or if they have one they [Read More...]

Twelve Reasons Why I Never Argue With Internet Atheists

Some atheists trying to pick a fight with padre, but I never argue with atheists Here’s why: 1. Most of the internet atheists I’ve come across are ignorant - I don’t mean they’re stupid necessarily, or that they are bad people. I don’t even mean they are uneducated in their particular field, but most of them are [Read More...]