Paladin of Tolerance caught in the act of a peculiar brand of tolerance

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Conscience of the SuperPopes: How dissenters defend the indefensible

Recently two nuns of the Sisters of Loretto poo-pooed Bishop Chaput’s efforts to defend life and appealed to, you guessed it, primacy of conscience. While we wait for the Tick-Tock Solution (as Fr. Phillip puts it) to rectify this, I recall a recent book, Father Thomas D. Williams: Knowing Right from Wrong: A Christian Guide [...]

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The food cults

When society abandons absolute moral norms, it leaves a gaping hole and we attempt to fill it with a poor substitute. The substitution usually means taking a non-absolute norm and giving it a field promotion. Few examples of this are as glaring as the concern for health and our relationship with food. The Catechism warns [...]

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If you are going to cry “slippery-slope!” regarding same-sex marriage…

…make sure we haven’t already slipped there:
Liberals have a different problem. Most of them want to say that sex with your dog is wrong, but sex with a human of your own gender isn’t. The trouble is, Singer explicitly connects the two practices (both are non-procreative), and people who advocate sex with animals—”zoophiles,” as they [...]

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Canadian Human Rights Bullying-Racket Imploding

Mark Steyn reports here:
Since deciding to clobber me and Ezra Levant, alas, the “human rights” party has gotten all fractious: the lobby groups have scoffed that the CHRC is full of talentless mediocrities not up to the job; the CHRC and Richard (Lucy) Warman have wound up in court, and for once on opposite sides; [...]

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It’s not bank-robbing, it’s an alternative expression of property rights.

When I hear the oft-repeated charge that the Church is obsessed with pelvic issues I reply that if there ever is a Theives’ Pride Parade, we will see more Catholic commentary on the wrongness of stealing.
I repeated this at AmP, when Christina of The Northern Cross blog, picks up the cue and plays on it [...]

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“There is no such thing as a secular Mass…except perhaps the Leonard Bernstein atrocity.”

That was a quote from my old music history professor. One of the high points on my musical resume is that I used to sing in the choir of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra when it was under David Zinman. With a professional orchestra I was blessed during that time to perform such things as the [...]

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Taxing Truth

The past few days and in several places where I have encountered complaining about bishops like Martino, Chuput et al actually shepherding their flocks, I have heard threats about the IRS. It amounts to, “I’m telling mommy!” Father Phillip however envisions a backfire worthy of Willie E. Coyote:
The irony here, of course, is that several [...]

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Europe Vs. Italy

Hat tip Fr. Phillip

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Bye bye iTunes

Apple donates $100,000 to fight Prop. 8

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