The DDF’s Strange Fixation – “It is disturbing that a few online trolls could prompt an official statement from a Vatican dicastery— a statement that dismays and offends so many loyal, faithful Catholics …” The Vatican and the trolls (Phil Lawler’s Substack)
Confusion Over Co-Redemptrix Title – “This week’s announcement by the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith that we should not use ‘Co-redemptrix’ as a title of the Virgin Mary has left observers with several questions, among them: ‘Why this?’ and ‘Why now?'” New document about ‘Co-redemptrix’ opens hornets’ nest in Church (Crux)
Holy Relics Map – “A new apostolate brings the ‘saints back into the heart of the Church’s life’ on the feast of the Veneration of the Holy Relics.” Calling All Relic Hunters: World’s First Map of Relics Unveiled by Anthony Di Mauro (National Catholic Register)
The Cult of Liquid Bodies and Empty Selves – “Outside of academia and other sites of rebellious conformity, most people have experienced the trans phenomenon as unprecedentedly weird.” Liquid Bodies and Empty Selves (Fairer Disputation)
Critical Theoretical Games – “The rhetoric birthed by critical theory (‘It is all about power,’ ‘Established institutions are ineradicably corrupt and need to be torn down,’ and ‘Everything you have been told is a lie’) is obviously no longer a monopoly of the left.” How Critical Theory Paved the Way for Nick Fuentes (First Things)
Curious Neglect on Immigration – “Catholic discussions of immigration frequently omit salient facts, most prominently the legal status of the ‘migrant.’” Where the Church’s Immigration Rhetoric Fails (First Things)
Diversity vs. Catholic Identity – “No mention is made of the university’s Catholic identity or the importance of promoting this Catholic identity anywhere on the description of admissions interns.” Notre Dame Admissions: Covering up Catholicism? (The Irish Rover)
A Rainbow Cross – “An Italian bishop has argued in an interview, which many Catholics are likely to find controversial, that he finds nothing wrong with the practise of homosexuality.” Italian bishop defends homosexual love and practice (The Catholic Herald)
Christian Natural Law – And because we have never known a world without a dominant regime of sexual liberalism, we have experienced the evils of the sexual revolution differently than prior generations did.” Passing Social Conservative Values from One Generation to the Next: A Q&A with Nathanael Blake (Ethics & Public Policy Center)
Disembodied Online Catholicism –“When you’re too online (even on Catholic social media) it makes it harder to build community and harder to evangelize.” Catholic social media is killing your Catholicism (Catholic Pat)
New Shroud Museum – “A new museum about the Shroud of Turin will open Nov. 18 on the campus of Christ Cathedral of the Diocese of Orange, California.” Museum about Shroud of Turin, life of Christ to open in California (CatholicVote)
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Regarding “Curious Neglect on Immigration”: Ask Native Americans how open borders worked out.
Regarding “A Rainbow Cross”: I respectfully recommend Bishop Francesco Savino read Romans 1:26-27. I know it isn’t in the lectionary so perhaps he may have overlooked these verses. For those who don’t have their Bibles handy, I include the verses here.
“Therefore, God handed them over to degrading passions. Their females exchanged natural relations for unnatural, and the males likewise gave up natural relations with females and burned with lust for one another. Males did shameful things with males and thus received in their own persons the due penalty for their perversity.” Romans 1:26-27
@ A Rainbow Cross
I began to write another critical comment, as if no one’s aware of the obvious. Crimson tide is a RedNeck Riviera oceanic algae phenomenon U of Alabama adopting it for their football team. Our tide is rainbow colored. I could tiringly add all the names of the process that all of us [mostly] are aware.
What I can contribute to the increasing moral devastation is a call to sanctification. Those suffering in nursing homes and other medical centers are a most worthy means of making a small sacrifice, a simple visit to these folks, many who have no visitors. Prayer, asceticism [best way to lose weight] offering whatever tribulation comes our way, even to go so far as to engage in some undesirable but good task. Above all deepening our relationship with Christ in silent prayer, Christ the source of all good and charity.
On the Curious Neglect on Immigration, the proposed Dignity Act is before the Congress undergoing various committee scrutiny. It is discussed at some length in the CWR first link from CNA on Bishop Seitz’s statement on immigration and endorsement of the Bill.
In the comboxes in that link Crusader positions a difference between immigrant and migrant. The proposed Act seems to embrace the categories for its provisions of reliefs and I do not see that there would be anything intrinsically wrong with that.
Well, this Bill has been in the Congress since 2022.
In the second CWR link, political extremism by Kalb, morganD in the comboxes is complaining about Trump Administration cruelty. Hopefully Trump will pass the Bill into law without too much delay. Biden tried to bring problems under control inherited from Obama and might have prevented an escalation of Obama Administration cruelties -and they were many and overlapping; however, the Biden Administration worsened the influx problems AND didn’t get the Bill passed to boot.
Biden sort of demonstrates a practical lesson about Democrats and himself in general, he lets the party members do as they may and get away with it and if it doesn’t quite get a good pass he lets that flitter out as they get on doing some fix, nobody accountable. Loyalties over laws and laws to punish others. Never in a good mix.
https://www.catholicworldreport.com/2025/11/11/bishop-seitz-endorses-immigration-bill-to-create-legal-protections/
https://www.catholicworldreport.com/2025/11/06/catholicism-and-extremism/
https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/4393/text?s=2&r=1&q=%7B%22search%22%3A%22dignity+act%22%7D#toc-H2F9AF7766A344AEF92E5BC725C2B92A4
Bishop Seitz is a political activist masquerading as a Bishop. And any other of my thoughts on his constant forays into politics would test the moderators’ limits.
It would be interesting to have a private investigator see if he’s compromised by moral turpitude.
Using Reply to add to mine.
The explanation given for President Biden’s Iowa rally said-to-be gaffe at the time, was, is, that he slipped because in fact he had used the same speech many times before elsewhere and had already capably delivered the actual “We choose truth over fiction!”
His “misspoke” that came at the stumps in Iowa; he declared in his Aviators, “We choose truth over facts!” Followed by, “So folks, join me I could use the help!”
Just before that he had said, “Even Trump’s supporters know who Trump is.” Then, “We got to let him know who we are!” Trump the Fact, Biden the Truth.
I think Biden was just having a good time and the declaration “We choose truth over facts!” was deliberate, he threw it out there for everyone to have fun with it, himself included. Behind the Aviators he was thinking “What a great turn of phrase no pun intended!”
This corresponds with his style or method I mentioned in my first post here November 12, 2025 at 9:26 am. More ominously, it develops his own themes, see the second C-SPAN clip where at that time he was insisting “It is a fact” that Catholic institutions are free to reject contraception.
Truth Over Facts!
https://www.c-span.org/clip/campaign-2020/user-clip-we-choose-truth-over-facts/4950874
This Is A Fact!
https://www.c-span.org/clip/presidential-debates/user-clip-biden-fact/4041292
Mid-Priced Aviators Galore
https://www.blenderseyewear.com/collections/aviator-sunglasses?srsltid=AfmBOopLfkmwYwwr3dLHUEFolRBKRQ24h1DId7W9kPqZAHCthcP29Ik2
Originally Bausch & Lomb
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aviator_sunglasses
Good Ol’ Bidey, President Biden, will he make it to confession! “….. if I didn’t say so myself!”
Will it be a good and true confess!
“Curious Neglect on Immigration – “Catholic discussions of immigration frequently omit salient facts, most prominently the legal status of the ‘migrant.’” Where the Church’s Immigration Rhetoric Fails (First Things)”
Nice summary of the problem with the Bishops and their migrant fetishization by John Grondelski. Next up, the curious lack of insistence the limits to immigration, the requirement for gratitude and carrying civic burdens as mentioned by CCC Para. 2241.
But of course the USCCB is an extra-ecclesial bureaucracy.
Again, Curious Neglect on Immigration, it IS true that immigration is NOT an “equivalent issue” to pro-life AND it is also true that pro-life Catholics should and do take immigration issues seriously. To leave the Bill in abeyance is to keep defaulting to moral turpitude and power grab. To not scrutinize the Bill for abortion loopholes would be to give way to abortion which is non-negotiable. To not analyze the Bill for legal irregularities, leaves the way open for a new set of management abuses.
Status quo is neither justified nor supportable.
@ Critical Theoretical Games
Critical theory if applied with counter balance can be productive. There are veiled and not so veiled abuses in the ‘system’. Carl Trueman First Things interestingly words the transference of critical theory from Left to Right a migration. More a recognition of reality than a disease as alluded to by Trueman. His criticism of Tucker Carlson falls in this context.
Radical or recently radicalized Nick Fuentes has taken critical theory to the far end of reality. Tucker, criticized for not taking Fuentes to task suggesting his assent. Although there usually are slivers of truth to the generalized lie. Having followed Tucker Carlson, now a world interviewer given access by the important and controversial, is sometimes zany, alarmed at the improbable, generally goes where few dare. Among the best of commentators jettisoned by Fox out of their own unwillingness to face the truth [how far can one go with the hand that feeds you?].
Tucker’s strategy in interviews is to allow the interviewee free rein, sans retribution, which is what gains him wide access to the world’s shakers and movers [Fuentes not such simply a person of political interest].