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Your Questions! Our Answers! And the New York Times cites debunked "expert" on Virgin Birth, Merry Christmas

Mary and Elizabeth's "Double Prophecy"

Syria, Regime Change, and Christians in Trouble; the real lesson of Daniel Penny, and so much more!

Cathedral of Notre Dame de Paris: The objectivity of the beautiful and the ugly; and suppression of the feminine by "synodal" ecclesiology

Fr. Mankowski Calculates the Angle

Phil: What Catholics can do for the American Republic; Leila: Three Leftist mistakes to avoid in daily life

This pivotal election: immigration, gender ideology, and the freedom to get back to ordinary life; Becket

No grandchildren, says the New York Times? Phil and I wonder why; the election aftermath; the literacy project (books from our shelves); the Red Sox!

"Synodality" subverts conscience

The Election and Peanut the Squirrel's Real Importance

Marriage makes a difference to the kind of polity we have; Synodality; Books!

Turned Around

Andrew Cuomo, sanitary dictator

Phil on Blessed Karl; Leila on what they don't want you to know about the abortion pill; and more!

Bill Clinton "campaigns" for Kamala; the Constitution; books!

Want to know why the Left lies about Amber Thurman?

Public works vs. private charity; the cynicism and societal destruction of legalizing marijuana "for private use"; and more!

Mob rule

The VP Debate, a lens on current events and issues: Helene, Israel, health care, abortion; the Orthodox leaders' statement on marriage; and more!

No, your moderate amount of evil is not okay

My critics wonder about the King James Version I keep quoting

San Diego Cardinal McElroy, against Church Teaching, Harshly Repudiates Catholic Homeschooling Families; Amber Thurman Dies of Legal Abortion, Media and Kamala Harris Lie; Bees; Tomatoes!

Guard true tradition or be a slave to profane habits

The Imminent Russia-US War; Free Speech and AI Deepfakes; and more!

An image of man and woman, complements

In which I say the quiet parts about feminism out loud

Build Back Better: But Did We? Freedom of Speech; the Debate; and more!

That late-term abortion "fact check" during the debate

The Icon of the Nursing Mother in St. Francis de Sales' Treatise on the Love of God

The "two books" of God's revelation; observing the Pope's priorities in Indonesia; chatting about economics and a movie we watched!

On the Feast of Glorious St. Gregory, Be Like Him in Your Own Place -- Make a "Pocket"!

Part II: I really only had two reasons to "veil" at Mass

Joy vs. Happiness; Censorship and Zuckerberg; St. Francis de Sales and the icon of the nursing mother

Musings on women covering their heads at Mass, Part I

Public health and mothers; Catholic bishops praying at conventions, a contrast; Rationalism

Voting can be a duty, yes, but it's not a sacred act

Leila and Phil respond to Edward Feser re: The Dilemma of Voting for Trump; AI: existential threat, cult, or tool? Books and conversation!

The bishops want Illumination, and they want it now.

How journalists get their "accurate information"; Dem VP choice Tim Walz, extreme "folksy" leftist; GOP needs to lean into principled rhetoric and goals

Glorifying God inspires real beauty in stone and wood

Olympic opening ceremonies were blasphemy, and what to do about that, on the Home Front; Remembering Fr. Paul Mankowski with Karen Hall

Martha and the Pharisee

The controlled opposition that is the Trad Wife phenomenon

Was it a coup; are they conspiracy theories; conversations at home; Willa Cather; two movies!

Logic in everyday life

Outsourcing everything

The Republican Party ditches Lincoln for Douglas on abortion; Female active agents are not fitting; Phil's connection with Trump's immunity case

Rupnik and bad choices made by the Knights of Columbus

++Viganò's excommunication; the working document for the synod on synodality; media coverage of Biden's decline; and more!

One simple way to tell if your child should participate

Vatican defends Rupnik's "art"; Vatican "trial of the century" countersuit; USCCB cuts staff; Louisiana's 10 Commandments law; books, and more!

Bishop Schneider is wise and right about Archbishop Viganò

A priest's obligation is to be holy, so prayer is a necessity!

Scientific American tries to resurrect the ill-fated Harvard Law attack on homeschooling; Prof. Andrea Grillo, papal influencer, exerts raw power; and much more!

Bishop Barron's The Mass -- A "Privileged Encounter"?

Mom confronts gunman in Church; not everyone is so brave

European elections shake things up; 9th Circuit rules on Covid shot mandates; Elderly peacefully praying woman is sentenced to 2 years in prison -- and more!

The implications of the Fauci hearings for politics and culture; what the Founders thought; cloth diapers and the culture wars; and more!

Wait a second, Russell Brand!

A strange week for Pope Francis, a thought about approach Pride Month, and more!

Podcast on hold this week!

Of babies: Too many? Too few? How to feed them?

(repost) Podcast: Is disruption the only kind of political discourse we have left?

Podcast: Is disruption the only kind of political discourse we have left?

Leila and Phil Lawler discuss the growth of the Catholic Church in Africa, the debacle of Title IX in the US, Joseph Lawler's analysis of urban planning in Austin, and more.

How has "Do your own research" become a sneer?

The Head of the SSPX on Synodality

Climate change fools for Christ

Normal sickness

Eucharistic revival is not something our bishops know about

The illogical public health management situation

Three overlooked points about how Catholic Social Teaching regards the family

Rather than autism, think "neurological disorder" and then you'll get it

The dilemma of giving up caffeine during Lent

Letting myself in (to Substack)

Push back against the age

A Colloquy for Lenten Preparation

Distant sound of Lent approaching