Okay, nothing against Baptists, I used to be one, but I’m watching the “Dateline” piece on exorcism, and all I can think… exorcisms shouldn’t be done in the living room with guys dressed in golf shirts Exorcisms require crucifixes and holy water and black robes and white collars. This should be accompanied by “The power [...]

Archbishop Chaput on PB-16 One of the lessons from last year that too many American Catholics still don’t want to face is that it’s OK to be Catholic in today’s public square as long as we don’t try to live our beliefs too seriously; as long as we’re suitably embarrassed by all those “primitive” Catholic [...]

Toast to the Pope! : Pope Benedict XVI Every orthodox Catholic needes one of these.

A Catholic Call for Dissent I was fired. It was the first time an American Catholic theologian had been censured in this way. At issue was my dissent from church teachings on “the indissolubility of consummated sacramental marriage, abortion, euthanasia, masturbation, artificial contraception, premarital intercourse and homosexual acts,” according to their final document to me. [...]

Dale ruins what was a very nice day… dream and reminds us that Pope Benedict XVI won’t be a Superpope, nailing heresy to every wall with his Papal Flying Heresy Daggers. But this just makes me giggle. I, too, would delight in an announcement that failure to adhere to the last jot of Redemptionis Sacramentum–and [...]