Japanese PM

Now or Never for Nihon

We've covered Japan's demographic woes here before. Some people scoffed at the ancient island nation's peril. But now her own prime minister is warning the time to address Nihon's population crisis is "now or never." Japanese Prime minister Fumio Kishida pledged on Monday to take urgent steps to tackle the…
January 23, 202312 Comments
Male Suicide

Losing Our Religion

It's been pointed out before on this blog that irreligiosity kills. Now, a new paper adds to the mountain of evidence that not just individual belief, but public group worship, is essential to one's wellbeing. Hat tip to authors David V. Stewart and Alexander Hellene. So-called deaths of despair such…
January 18, 20238 Comments
Fr Chad

Fr. Chad Is Back

Yesterday's post on the decline of Liberal Catholicism gave rise to a lot of comment. Hats off to my Twitter mutual @catholic_dan7 for posting this follow up from Fr. Chad Ripperger. Watch the celebrated chad exorcist here: A wealth of great stuff here Some highlights: Modernism has stooped to a…
January 12, 20232 Comments
Life Teen Mass

Hopeful LibCath Listicle

Way back in the mists of time before the Trump years, #GamerGate, and even the Sad Puppies days, Fr. Dwight Longenecker's blog was on my regular rotation. Fr. D. is a former Anglican priest, Catholic convert, and indie author whose balanced commentary proved quite helpful in the early days of…
January 11, 202311 Comments
B16

The Last Word

Pope Benedict XVI died on New Year's Eve. He had a short reign by modern standards, but he was among the most accomplished theologians ever elected to the papal throne - which is saying a lot. And like the best teachers of the faith, he summed up his pontificate in…
January 2, 202315 Comments
Holy Spirit

Except in the Holy Spirit …

... no one can say Jesus is Lord. Some recent examples from Twitter: In case you're just joining us, the above exchange is a textbook example of the still infallible Witch Test. Here's another demonstration:     At this point, so many anti-Christs who cloak their Death Cult proselytizing in…
December 29, 20229 Comments
Jesus Nativity

The Nativity of our Lord Jesus Christ

The Twenty-fifth Day of December, when ages beyond number had run their course from the creation of the world, when God in the beginning created heaven and earth, and formed man in his own likeness; when century upon century had passed since the Almighty set his bow in the clouds…
December 23, 202213 Comments
Christ's Birth

Defending December 25

Advent is back, so the Reddit atheists and pagan LVRPers have returned to display their historical and biblical illiteracy. That means it's time to republish this perennial favorite post so my readers can demolish internet atheists' cringe "Christmas is Pagan!" memes. December 25 really is the date of Jesus' birth.…
December 22, 20226 Comments
Synod Relator General

Synod Witches Madder

In another blow to the Death Cultists striving to impose witchery on the Church through synods, top officials within the current synod on synodality reasserted the Church's firm No Witches Allowed policy. The highest-ranking woman in the general secretariat of the Synod of Bishops has said that the ordination of…
December 15, 202211 Comments
Church Shop

Church Shopping

The Devil springs his most vicious attacks on the Church during two seasons. In Lent, the mainstream media overflows with pop pseudohistory books by fedora-tier academics pushing crackpot theories about Jesus. You might catch a talk show with one grifter claiming Christ was a failed rebel who got executed and…
December 8, 20227 Comments