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Writes about church complicity with the broader regressive right wing political project in the light of the Gospel, Tradition and downright human decency. https://buttondown.com/grievous
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The squirrels at my bird feeders
Michael Douglas in the movie “Wall Street” with the caption, "Greed . is good. Greed is right. Greed works."
May 19, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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Call him the liability in the coal mine. Barron's shamelessness and ironically pitiful media savvy may have him languishing on the outskirts of Minneapolis, but he holds the ignominious mantle of avatar for the USCCB's culture war myopia, as well as its principal purveyor. Much like the Republican Party, he's promising his brother bishops and an army of aggrieved, digital rubes a road to God, gold and glory, though decidedly not in that order. And like said Party, as well as any other middle-aged man with a stalled career and a YouTube channel, he's already finagling his exit strategy: establishing an order of priests, presumably to attain some measure of the prestige and influence denied him by the Vatican.
February 20, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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My latest…
The joke of the USCCB, of course, is that it's never been more evident that they've been played. The freeze on USAID funding presents an existential threat to Catholic Relief Services; the targeting of federal loan programs risks the free meals and Title services afforded to thousands of Catholic school students; the politicization of nonprofit status subordinates the Church's advocacy efforts to the whims of the Federal Government; attacks on migrants tear apart Catholic families and parish communities...The list goes on. Even on abortion, the Republican Party has seemed mostly to abandon the coveted golden calf of a federal ban. But hey, at least they get the satisfaction of making life demonstrably worse for the less than 0.005% of the population that identifies as transgender...
February 20, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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February 13, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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Mr. Fault goes to Washington
January 25, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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Feel like there’s a pretty big Gaza-shaped hole in this argument
January 18, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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Archbishop Sample not beating the vampire allegations.
Archbishop Sample at USCCB Convocation, sporting a gray beard Father Paul from “Midnight Mass” (2021), old and bearded. Old Father Paul holding up a lit match in the dark, facing a vampire—er, angel.
November 14, 2024 at 8:25 PM
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In the dizzying wrath and revelation of Election 2024, one thing is clear: when it comes to the core project of the institutional US Church, the Gospel is no longer a mere trifle; it's apostasy. We've long since descended from deniability and hypotheticals: we know how this false prophet greets the stranger, have no doubt who goes hungry and thirsty, are all too familiar with his grim visitations upon the prisoner. We have experienced the Gospel of Donald Trump - in visceral, excruciating definition. Are we now to doubt what to expect from his resurrected reign? Where peacemakers be damned, and the god of mammon sneers upon creation?
November 11, 2024 at 3:12 PM
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I think the biggest story in that regard is the sheer irrefutability. Christians know what Trump is about explicitly, and are by and large embracing it without hesitation.
In the dizzying wrath and revelation of Election 2024, one thing is clear: when it comes to the core project of the institutional US Church, the Gospel is no longer a mere trifle; it's apostasy. We've long since descended from deniability and hypotheticals: we know how this false prophet greets the stranger, have no doubt who goes hungry and thirsty, are all too familiar with his grim visitations upon the prisoner. We have experienced the Gospel of Donald Trump - in visceral, excruciating definition. Are we now to doubt what to expect from his resurrected reign? Where peacemakers be damned, and the god of mammon sneers upon creation?
November 11, 2024 at 1:11 AM
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Wrote this on Friday night. Rectified. We press on.
I wish I had better whiskey. At the moment, all I've got is Maker's, which, I'm sorry, is more of a mixer. A party drink. Snobbish, I know, but I could do with a touch of existential verve. The sort of thing you sip in slouched, sighing requiem before the morrow's heave and toil. Out in the yard, the two-log fire strictly ornamental against the crisp flagellation of a mid-autumn's eve... Woodford, neat. Make it a double. Bottle of Basil Hayden next to a poured glass
November 11, 2024 at 12:52 AM