Category Archives: Catholics

The Tower and the Sewer

Posted on June 6, 2024 by Luke Ford

Mark Lilla writes: Catholic postliberal thinkers opposed to modern liberal individualism are less interested in transforming people’s unhappy lives through the power of the gospel than in jockeying for political power as the vanguard of a conservative revolution… It has … Continue reading →

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How did the Catholics lose Latin America? (1-12-22)

Posted on January 11, 2022 by Luke Ford
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The Pen and the Cross: Catholicism and English Literature 1850 – 2000

Posted on November 13, 2020 by Luke Ford

Richard Griffiths writes in this 2010 book: * The concerns of English Catholic literature on the whole failed to mirror those of its French equivalent. The reason for this lies mainly in the position, and history, of the Catholic Church … Continue reading →

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Catholicism Is Gay

Posted on January 7, 2018 by Luke Ford

Dennis Dale writes: Was the abomination that has become of the Catholic Church inevitable due to its celibate order? Was the abomination that has become of Christianity generally also inevitable due to the preponderance of gay ministers? My impression is … Continue reading →

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LAT: ‘Nearly 100 nuns at a nursing home near the Skirball fire were evacuated. With nowhere to go, staff took them in’

Posted on December 8, 2017 by Luke Ford

Whatever happened to Catholic charity? I can’t believe a group of 100 nuns could find no help from the Los Angeles Catholic community. If these were Jews in trouble, our community would have rallied to help them. Unlike Protestantism, which … Continue reading →

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