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Category Archives: Liberals
For Fishwrap, El Pueblo knows best!
Over at the National Schismatic Reporter, Michael Sean Winters has a supremely naïve piece (for which I hope he was paid by the word). Winters lays out a grand plan for Pope Francis to reform the Roman Curia and why. … Read More
Does a California bill really classify pedophilia as a “sexual orientation”?
UPDATE: 5 April 13:19 GMT From information provided by readers in the combox, below, you will see that there were a lot of problems with the information about the bill and the issues. That’s why I posted the title in … Read More
Posted in Liberals, Pò sì jiù, The future and our choices
Tagged Jackie Speier, pedophilia, sexual orientation
70 Comments
70 Comments
Dippy coverage from Reuters on Pope Francis’ General Audience
It is hard to imagine how wrong newsies can be… and then you run into the abysmally twisted report from Reuters about what Pope Francis said today in his Wednesday audience about women. Pope stresses “fundamental” value of women in … Read More
Thank you, Pope Francis!
In two weeks Pope Francis has done more to promote Summorum Pontificum than Pope Benedict did since the day he promulgated it. After the decision by Pope Francis to wash the feet of two women on Holy Thursday, conservative Catholic … Read More
What is Pope Francis really saying?
Here is what I think Pope Francis is up to. In this explanation I am not necessarily endorsing specific things that he is doing (washing the feet of females in a prison) or not doing (refusing the mozzetta, etc.). I … Read More
Martyrdom and you.
Over at the National Catholic Register, Matthew Archbold has this sobering observation: Preparing my Children for Martyrdom I was looking at my children in Mass yesterday and a horrifying thought occurred to me. If I do my job well as … Read More
Did Pres. Obama quote Saul Alinsky in speech in Jerusalem
I got this from Weasel Zippers (live that name): JERUSALEM – In his address in Jerusalem today, President Obama channeled Saul Alinsky, citing the radical community organizer’s defining mantra as he urged young Israelis to “create change” to nudge their … Read More
Bp. Vasa (D. Santa Rosa) getting blow-back for requiring Catholic teachers to adhere to Catholic ways
Remember what Bp. Vasa is doing in Santa Rosa? He is requiring that teachers in Catholic schools live – gasp! – according to Catholic teachings and mores. Imagine such a thing! The Cardinal Newman Society, which focuses on the … Read More
Posted in Liberals, Linking Back, New Evangelization, Our Catholic Identity, The Drill
Tagged Bp. Vasa, Cardinal Newman Society, CNS, D. Santa Rosa
43 Comments
43 Comments
Liberals will soon turn on Pope Francis
We are still a bare few days into the pontificate of Pope Francis. I have therefore declined to gush out lots of entries here, burbling my every half-formed notion about what is going to happen. I have also avoided surfing … Read More
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