Boomer Solipsism Still Ruining the Church

Boomer Solipsism Still Ruining the Church

To no one's surprise, a generation of narcissists is surprised that distorting the faith in their image is making the youth flee in droves. H/t Rawle Nyanzi You didn’t misread that, I didn’t say irrelevant, I said RELEVANT. We’ve taken a historic, 2,000 year old faith, dressed it in plaid…
December 24, 201828 Comments
To Whom Shall We Go?

To Whom Shall We Go?

An important reminder that conversion is a grace, and God calls whomever He wills. No, not to anime fandom. To the One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church. Praise to Our Lord Jesus Christ and welcome to Not John Daker. May the Lord draw you into ever closer communion with Him…
December 12, 201824 Comments
Love of Theory…

Love of Theory…

...is the root of all evil, as the otherwise quite astute Z Man demonstrates as he fails to see the epistemological corner his penchant for biological determinism paints him into. Part of what drives the persistence of bad ideas is they seem to address a need among modern people to…
December 10, 201831 Comments
What Principle?

What Principle?

Breitbart reports on a recent poll that asked if employers should make room for Muslim employees to pray at work, then asked the same question about Christians. The results were broken down along Liberal and Conservative lines. It should come as no surprise that more Liberals favored giving Muslims prayer…
December 7, 201816 Comments
To Purify the Church Restore Masculinity

To Purify the Church Restore Masculinity

That's the New York Times' housebroken Catholic Conservative Ross Douthat gratuitously groveling before the coven of witches seeking to further feminize the Church. You can spot his knee-jerk effort to preemptively mollify his paymasters by its incoherence. Note to Ross: Nuns and abbesses are laywomen, in that they're not ordained clergy. The prominent…
October 30, 201815 Comments
Benedictine CoC

Benedictine CoC

From Antisocial Justice on Twitter: The SJW mob successfully pressured SQLite into adopting a code of conduct, but it turns out that victory has defeated them. You read that right. SQLite's new CoC is based on the Rule of St. Benedict--the rule of religious life that ushered in the golden…
October 23, 201824 Comments
Liberalism in Slow Motion

Liberalism in Slow Motion

Catholic blogger Peter Kwasniewski observes that Conservatism is Liberalism, only slower. A conservative is one who wishes to conserve the good at hand, which means maintaining the status quo while correcting notorious deviations. But the conservative has no principled motivation to return to and recover what has been lost, for…
September 27, 20188 Comments
Finding God

Finding God

A commenter on yesterday's post writes: I've lately felt something of a pull towards Christianity, Catholicism, in particular. (I've generally believed in the existence of a God but haven't gotten serious about it, in part due to my religious upbringing). However, seeing things like this, as well as the general…
August 17, 201825 Comments
To Purify the Church, Build the Wall

To Purify the Church, Build the Wall

Another round of damning revelations has been brought to light in the perpetual gay priest child sex abuse scandal in the Catholic Church. In sum, the State of Pennsylvania investigated 70 years of clergy sex abuse claims and found that 300 priests had abused at least 1000 minors. The height…
August 16, 201822 Comments
The Two Rulebooks

The Two Rulebooks

As a follow up to my recent post about a Catholic wonk struggling to comprehend the cultural and spiritual forces arrayed against the Church and the West, reader Xavier passes along an example of a Catholic blogger who's starting to get it. Wherein Fr. Z contemplates how the Left wins…
June 7, 201814 Comments