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There is a campaign well underway to separate “good gay” from all those other icky iterations that sully “good gay.” It goes a couple of different but related ways. One is that the LGBs are just fine, but the Ts? No, the Ts are nuts and have never really been part of the LGBs. The…
What does it mean to be free? Our political understanding of freedom is changing in ways that are sometimes subtle. Catholics run the risk of accepting at face value a narrow view of “political freedom” and sacrificing what it means truly to be free. Bill Maher now has more in common with an average Catholic…
A recent article in OnePeterFive suggests that zealous reading of the news – which the author implicitly equates to neck-craning as we pass an accident – is dismissed as, at best, a worthless enterprise and as, at worst, a sinful one. In support of his thesis, the author, Dr. Andrew Peach, appeals to St. Thomas…
The above NBC News headline was typical of media reaction to the June 27, 2024, presidential debate between Joe Biden and Republican candidate Donald Trump. Indeed, it was a most humiliating and embarrassing moment for the 81-year-old president, who spoke incoherently and stumbled over his words before an audience of 50 million viewers. Now in…
Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tale “The Emperor’s New Clothes” is a favorite for social commentary, but has it ever had more fitting application than last Thursday’s presidential debate? “The President is senile!” cried the Democrats. And so he was. But unless old Joe chooses otherwise, he, like the emperor in the famous tale, will shuffle…
As we all know, Rorate broke the new ‘well-founded rumour’ that a new anti-TLM document exists and is looming on the horizon. Our friends at Rorate are entirely reliable as they themselves rightly reminded us in that post. Then, Miss Diane Montagna confirmed the news: Even if Rorate’s report had not been confirmed, we would…
Above: The Visitation by Flemish painter Willem Vrelant (d. 1481). Today, July 2, is the usus antiquior feast of the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary. This feast was instituted in 1389 by, in a way, two popes—Pope Urban VI as the one who intended to institute it, in hopes of obtaining the end of…
While it is doubtful that we’ll be happy after Klaus Schwab takes from us everything we own, the World Economic Forum here reveals that Brave New World is a how-to manual for Herr Schwab, not a warning about threats to our freedom. 1984 serves as a backup plan in case Brave New World does not…
This Pentecost, a hermit in the diocese of Lexington, Kentucky, admitted that she was really a she and not a he. That is not how she put it, but that is what it was. Christian Matson, who was born Nicole Matson, said that she began to express herself as a male when she was 21….
After countless Catholic thinkers have spent the past several decades writing innumerable articles explaining how the Church’s doctrine is at odds with what Sir Roger Scruton called the injustice of “social justice” and consistently been ignored, it can seem mere regurgitated routine for that injustice to be, yet again, equated with Catholic teaching in a…
