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  • The Pope’s Little Miracle of Laughter

    The Pope’s Little Miracle of Laughter0

    The world is going to hell in a handbasket. Bird flu. Ukraine. Climate change. Dallas Mavericks. Kamala Harris. Boston Celtics. Gaza. Extreme heat. Mortgage defaults. I recently resolved to turn my little corner of the world around by spreading good cheer. Every day I’m sending friends on WhatsApp a great joke. Today’s is: Why did the

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  • The Pope’s Famous 4 Predictions About Contraception

    The Pope’s Famous 4 Predictions About Contraception0

    • October 30, 2015

    Most people today accept contraception as a given of modern sexual relations, and just about every Christian church and denomination today believes its use is acceptable in some if not all cases… except the Roman Catholic Church.    But the general Christian acceptance of contraception is a fairly recent development. Up until 1930, all major

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  • The Pope’s Favorite Straw Man: ‘Individualism’

    The Pope’s Favorite Straw Man: ‘Individualism’0

    Since his election in 2013, Pope Francis has repeatedly attacked what he now calls the “liberal-individualist” or “neoliberal” vision of the world. With last week’s statement to the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, Francis has renewed the attack, but in the process has exhibited a number of political biases and demonstrably false assumptions.  This line of attack

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  • The Pope Loves Dialogue—Except on Climate Change

    The Pope Loves Dialogue—Except on Climate Change0

    “When leaders in various fields ask me for advice, my response is always the same: dialogue, dialogue, dialogue.” ~ Pope Francis, in Brazil in 2013 The Pope of Dialogue has thus far slammed the bronze doors of St. Peter’s on any dialogue on the issue of global warming. (Many Catholics argue that everything else is up

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  • The Pope Francis Media Circus is a Two-Edged Sword

    The Pope Francis Media Circus is a Two-Edged Sword0

    • September 23, 2015

    The excitement surrounding Pope Francis’ visit to America is the closest Catholics get to Beatlemania. Hundreds of thousands are hoping to catch a glimpse of the pope when he is in D.C., New York, and Philadelphia this week. My Facebook feed has seen more than one post from those with golden tickets to see the

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  • The Politics of Stephen King’s Fiction

    The Politics of Stephen King’s Fiction6

    Lately, I’ve been reading a lot of Stephen King, and I came to wonder about the horror writer’s political ideas. Several right-leaning essayists have already noticed a seeming disconnect between King’s politics and the spirit of his fiction. Tim Cavanaugh labels King a “lefty,” yet notes that his stories are full of “hard-headed pragmatism and

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