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Coupla gigs coming up:First: I will be at the University of Washington Newman Center tonight at 7:00, talking about the theological foundations of Catholic Social Teaching. This is one of the fruits of the Vocare Movement project to teach the entire Compendium on the Church’s Social doctrine. We will have twelve different people writing study…
Read MoreSome bourgeois slobs are claiming the Cowboys “beat” the Seahawks (if you are the sort of philistine who thinks “scoring more points” constitutes “winning” in football.) We in Seattle live by a higher code, a higher vision. So we know that, on the Gridiron of the Spirit, the Hawks won. Ours is a high and lonely destiny.
Read MoreA reader writes:I recently read your article “Just Exactly Where is the Church?”. In it you mentioned that“Rather, the Church teaches that because validly baptized non-Catholics are real members of the Body of Christ, they share in the life of the Blessed Trinity and therefore share with Catholics the hope of salvation”I was wondering how…
Read More…are all being discussed over at the Register.
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you’ll love this:
Read MoreWellllll… I don’t see the harm in just one thinnnn mint. Just one more thinnnn mint!
Read More1. How did “radical” move from meaning “rooted” to meaning “utterly unrooted in anything that is normal”?2. How did “literally” go from meaning, you know, “literally” to meaning “figuratively” (as in “my head *literally* exploded).
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This is why people can’t stand you:In your own repulsive and appalling way, you are some of the best friends the pro-life movement has and you do more to persuade people on the fence of your inhuman hatred of children, and of their inalienable right to life than all the abstract arguments in the world. So…
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