Uncategorized
“I spent my whole life trying to put a battery in backwards before I finally realized that batteries don’t work.” – Every Fundamentalist-Turned-Unbeliever testimonial everAn apt summary of this tragic story. And sadly, a story you won’t necessarily escape entirely in the Catholic Church, if you happen to get sucked into some of its more…
Read MoreFundies are constantly fretting that Mary is “really” Semiramis. In fact, they worry about it so much, they create easily and documentably false memes:…just to lie other extremely gullible Fundamentalists into believing that Mary is Semiramis and Jesus is Nimrod, even though the statue on the top left is from Cologne Cathedral, south portal and you…
Read MoreFrancis tightens the screws on abusers and the bishops who assist them.
Read More…to the despicable cynicism of this despicable man. First, he betrays Middle Eastern Christians for the sake of a fund-raising ploy. Now he declares that his critics don’t care about Christians.If the Thing that Used to be Conservatism supports this creep for President they will lose, lose bad, and deserve the beating they get.Update: Cruz…
Read MoreIn which we meet a confused Catholic and try to reduce the confusion.
Read MoreThe only boobs on the ground were in that studio.Meanwhile, our Ruling Class continues to benefit from a feckless, trivia-suckled media who wouldn’t know accountability if it bit them on the nose.And the net result, as ever, is that the troops who will do the heavy lifting mandated by these chuckleheads get shoveled around, sent…
Read MoreHas anyone considered the possibility that the election of Francis is all part of a massive Jesuit plot to gain control of the Jesuits?
Read MoreA reader writes:Please ask all the prayer warriors you know to pray for our daughter Theresa. She’s 9 and newly diagnosed with osteosarcoma. http://www.caringbridge.org/visit/littlemisstFather, hear our prayer for Theresa’s complete healing in body, soul, and spirit. Give her caregivers grace, wisdom, counsel, knowledge, understanding, compassion, creativity, insight, skill and the proper technology to assist in…
Read MoreA reader writes:Here’s a theological question if you need blog material. I have had a pinched nerve in my hip for 5 years. Recently it just stopped hurting. Did the Lord bless me with this, and, if so, why, since I am not at all a good Christian and there are good Christians out there…
Read MoreFrom St. Mary’s parish in Boise, IN. A reader writes:Some people find consolation sitting in the front pew with her arm around them, and they like putting babies and small children in her lap.I like it.
Read More