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We were supposed to believe that old Joe Biden received millions more votes in 2020 than the historic election of the first black president, Barack Obama, in 2008 and his reelection in 2012. Obama got 69 million votes in 2008 and 65 million in 2012. Sleepy Joe got 81 million four years ago. Biden did…
The autumn sky above the old shot-and-beer city was a deep and endless blue. Woodsmoke hung in the air and small boats chugged out purposeful routes on waterways. The Ravens are playoff-bound, and the youth-strapped Orioles made it to the postseason again. All was right on Baltimore’s harbor Wednesday—perfect even—as joggers politely zig-zagged through the…
Above: this image was generated by AI. Weirded out yet? After recently posting about the “Catholic Robot Wars” to describe an emerging challenge to right faith—one generally unaddressed in the Catholic blogosphere—we came across this Episcopalian version of an AI chatbot: CATHY, a feminine acronym for “Churchy Answers That Help You.” WND describes the tool…
“Unless you become as one of these little children,” Jesus said to His disciples, who had notions of greatness in the world they thought the Lord would usher in, “you shall not enter the kingdom of heaven.” I do not wish to read that verse figuratively. That is easy to do—and too easy for us…
It was a humbling experience getting to know some of the Amish voters who helped propel President-elect Donald Trump’s historic comeback victory. In a way, it was like feeling my mind and my heart grow larger inside me through no virtue of my own. I’ll never forget the gratitude I feel toward them; and I…
The attack on the Traditional Latin Mass in Tyler, Texas this weekend has gobsmacked us all, both traditional and Novus Ordo Catholics. Why now? Why on the first anniversary of the loss of our dear bishop? The fact that the apostolic administrator, Bishop Joe Vásquez of Austin, requested a ruling hints that it might be…
Lower the Vexilla Regis. Raise the white of flag of surrender. The Synodal Church has arrived. Where Christ once declared victory in the red blood of His Cross, the Synodalists bleat in the pastels of accommodation. Their white flag was a shameless admission that the Church of 2024 no longer has anything to say. Of…
A traditional Eastern Catholic view of the Synod on Synodality, part II. In the previous part of my brief summary of the final document of the Synod on Synodality concerning the Catholic East, we found that Rome had proven more orthodox than Moscow. What had become a truism concerning Germany (the far-left Alphabet agenda) is…
I returned from the Martinmas festivities today to face the news that has hit American traditionalists since last Saturday. As many American Trads were still celebrating the victory of Trump, the Vatican Regime of New Iconoclasm struck the little diocese of Tyler, Texas. As you may recall, the Vatican regime previously cut off the head…
Liturgy and politics are not so dissimilar. For those who consider themselves aficionados or pundits, both spheres offer endless opportunities for analysis, discussion, and persuasion. There is a soteriological element as well—for if we can just get the liturgy right, just usher in the right candidate or political party, everything will be restored. “All will…
