Back in 2006, right-wing Republican panjandrum Ramesh Ponnuru published The Party of Death, a book aggressively attacking the Democratic Party for its embrace of “abortion rights”, or, as Ramesh, and the Republican Party, described it, murder! For if, as the Republican platform claims, every human fetus, from the moment of conception, is, or should be,…
Tag: Catholic Church
Saints preserve us! And, while you’re at it, preserve us from the saints!
Sick of the woke folk? Well, I sure am, but I’m sick of the unwoke too. This is a bit of an unbalanced rant, going off in several different directions at once, occasioned by three pieces by three ill-assorted unconventional (I guess) conservatives, Ross Douthat’s Where Liberal Power Lies, Rod Dreher’s commentary on Ross’s piece,…
Shorter Ross: We’re almost as bad as the Jews
Alas, poor Douthat! Ross Douthat, I mean, who bravely assumes the task of explaining why he will celebrate another Christmas as a Catholic, despite the, um, unending revelations of unending horrors of sexual abuse and hierarchical coverup that have plagued the Church for the last, I don’t know, twenty or thirty years. To explain his…
American Catholics and American Jews are not happy campers. And neither, it seems, are America’s evangelicals
This conversation didn’t happen, but it could have: Monseigneur Vivaldi: “Have you read that Pennsylvania grand jury report? Over three hundred priests accused of sex abuse! We’ve hit rock bottom! It can’t get any worse than this!” Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò: “Hold my beer.” Yes, Viganò’s now notorious letter is rockin’ the church in ways…
#MeToo Comes for the Archbishop, and for Ross Douthat
A couple of weeks ago I pounded Mr. Douthat rather heavily, in a short piece titled Et tu, Ross? Aka “Catty Monday”, ridiculing the poor man for sighing over the faded plumage of the Catholic Church in a column he called “Make Catholicism Weird Again”, noting that “recently, all 34 Chilean bishops have offered to…
Et tu, Ross? Aka “Catty Monday”
Just two weeks ago, NYT papist in chief Ross Douthat had a column, “Make Catholicism Weird Again”, urging a return to the good old days, saying that the Church should reclaim its rightful role “as a full alternative culture in its own right — one that reclaims the inheritance on display at the Met,1 glories…
Catholic Conundra: You can’t please all the people all the time, and you can’t fool all the people all the time either
As a secular humanist of Protestant descent, I’m not much of a fan of the Catholic Church. Still, I almost feel sorry for the new Pope to be, Jorge Mario Bergoglio/Francis, who’s gotten easily the least gracious welcome of any Pope that I can remember. In the past, the press was happy to go along…