Fr. Z. solves a problem.

It often happens, at least to me, that when Pope Francis starts swinging pejorative labels around like so many clubs, it’s hard to know just whom he means to lather.

That said, when Pope Francis uttered the epithet about Self-Absorbed Promethean Neo-Pelagians, I knew right away that that meant catholic libs.

Some years later, he is talking again about “Pelagians” and about new “Gnostics”, though not in the ancient and technical sense of the terms.

At The Catholic Thing, Fr. Thomas G. Weinandy, OFM, Cap. – bane of libs – has set his pen to electronic page to [in]scribe a comment about whom the Pope is really labeling.

Actually, he finds that Fr. Weinandy has solved it, namely whom Francis is talking about when he swings his pejorative labels.

Be careful with this. It has some nicely argued explanations. Read carefully. (Beware also Fr. Z’s witticisms. Dangerous man.)

via Fr. Z’s Blog

Charles Krauthammer

Obama said he’d “set up” the economy for Trump, which is now repeated ad nauseam by his supporters.

Oh?

Mr. Obama might be justified in taking credit for today’s economy if his successor had adopted and carried on his policies.

Instead, Mr. Trump has reversed nearly every Obama rule, edict and law that he can legally overturn.

At its core, the Trump economic strategy wasn’t complicated: systematically repeal Mr. Obama’s “accomplishments”—the tax increases, the regulatory blitz on business, the welfare expansions, the war on American fossil fuels, and so on.

As a result, the economy would pop like a cork pulled from a shaken champagne bottle.

And so it has.

via WSJ