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…in my backyard, a few hundred yards from people I know and care about. Everyone I know is okay, but one family’s son (a boy my son’s age) is dead and three others are wounded in the umpteenth act of meaningless gun slaughter here in the Land of Meaningless Gun Slaughter. Meanwhile, the Onion captures…
Just read your post in which you quote Aquinas in defense of Francis. I love to see writers highlighting the distinction between justice and charity in regard to that heinous swear-word, “redistribution.” I wanted to share a recent piece of my own on just this. It represents the 5th part in a 6-part series on…
Minotaurs and Krakens is Where Pope Francis Draws the Line
…over at the Register.
Photos of D Day and the same locations today.
…to the current hysteria in the Anglosphere media surrounding Tuam. As I suspected, the portrayal of the home as Ireland’s Dachau is wildly overblown. It’s still a tragic story and one from which the Irish Church does not escape unscathed, but there appears to be a lot less There there than the UK media fulminations…
I love this guy so much. I have a Dominican priest friend (very big, far bigger than I am, on liturgical issues and quite staunchly orthodox) who said, “I don’t really expect Francis to be a big liturgy guy. The joke among us Dominicans is ‘As lost as a Jesuit during Holy Week.’ But if…
So over on Facebook, some of the Good Christian Jihadis of Murka have already got their proposal lined up for how to avoid the mess and expense of all that tiresome trial and due process crap for this Bergdahal dude they have decided, on the basis of press clippings, needs killin’: Jihadi 1 ++He really…
“What do we say about the 800 dead children buried in a septic tank in Tuam, Ireland–by nuns?” I think “Horrible and shameful” and “Kyrie Eleison” is a perfectly appropriate response. They were human beings and deserved Christian burial, not this. As far as I can piece together from the story, it is an indictment…
From small ankle tattoos to tattooed sleeves, I am seeing tattoos on men and women more and more frequently. In fact, an estimated 40 million Americans have at least one tattoo, and tattoo parlors are one of the fastest growing businesses in the U.S. With the increased popularity of tattoos comes the question of their morality.…