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Cloward-Piven Goes to Rome

You just slip out the back, Jack Make a new plan, Stan You don’t need to be coy, Roy Just listen to me Hop on the bus, Gus You don’t need to discuss much Just drop off the key, Lee And get yourself free. Paul Simon, Fifty Ways to Leave Your Lover The pope, too, […]

The Second Coming Of Peronismo

Peronism is the highest level of consciousness reached by the Argentine working class. Statement of the Movement of Priests for the Third World, 1971 We mustn’t pay too much attention to people who talk to us of prudence. We must be fanatical. Eva Perón By whatever varietal name you call it, populist leftism is experiencing […]

Reinhard Marx, Agony Uncle

It is September. Time to slide out of the hammock and get going. But on what? Headlines piled up over August. Every one of them is a depth meter that gives a reading on how far down the rabbit hole we find ourselves, as an electorate no less than a faith community. And that is […]

Until Later

There is a hush over August. Its quietude invites every Jackself to take as one’s own Hopkins’ interior monologue: “Let be, call off thoughts awhile. buy finasteride online https://medicalcoder.io/wp-includes/sitemaps/providers/php/finasteride.html no prescription ” Words, too, need a rest. Only in silence can we hear the psalmist: Be still, and know that I Am God. Until later. […]

A Mess & How It Got There

A man’s being a poisoner is nothing against his prose. Oscar Wilde Every embarrassment is not a scandal. Egg on the face washes off. Scandal, by contrast, does not. It cuts to the core. A Church scandal poisons trust in those we look to for guidance through the thicket of our own caprices. And it […]

Treason of the Clerisy

I foresee churches with their Jesuit bureaucrats open daily from 9-5, closed on weekends. Georges Bernanos Jesuits are blameless here but the point stands. The debacle at Our Saviour is a symptom of bureaucratic conditions more critical than any clash of taste in church décor. Umbrage over “the integrity of the art” is a red […]

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