Year-old news, for which I apologize, but Fr. Z. did so well rebutting this absurd complaint which I ran across while looking for something else, that had to “share” it, as they say — vs. the old, quite useful “tell you about it.”

Within his rebuttal, rambling at times but so what? was this neat capsule:

A couple days back, at the Fishwrap (aka National Sodomitic Reporter [ouch]), the Wile E. Coyote of the catholic Left, Michael Sean Winters, attacked converts.

“At Al Jazeera, Austen Ivereigh debates Matthew Schmitz from First Things. I am so tired of converts telling us that the pope is not Catholic.”

Then the neat wisdom slice:

What a snotty thing to say. Typical Fishwrap.  Liberals have a streak of moral superiority which leads them to all sorts of  humorless, condescending lapses.

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. . . Wyoming loved its women.

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In his acceptance speech, Kavanaugh . . .

. . .  stressed judicial independence, and fidelity to statutes and the Constitution, interpreted as written, not as imagined. . .

. . . or deduced from a cloud of circumstance.

via Glenn Harlan Reynolds in USA Today

Chalk one up for common sense.

An uncommon virtue in gun matters.

But there’s a catch.

Fortworth, Texas, Jul 7, 2018 CNA/EWTN News.- The Diocese of Fort Worth is removing signs notifying people that concealed and open carry of firearms are both banned on church property – but the policy against guns has not changed. [?!]

Removal of the signs was recommended by a security team whom the diocese hired as consultants after a mass shooting at a Baptist church in Sutherland Springs last November, NBC reported.

Tony Perez, a parishioner at St. Patrick’s Cathedral, has a license to carry firearms, . . . told Dallas-Fort Worth’s NBC affiliate that the signs were “effectively advertising a gun-free zone,” which notified individuals seeking to do harm that the location was vulnerable.

The catch:

Instead of posting signs near the entrances of churches throughout the diocese, notification of the gun ban will be included in weekly Sunday bulletins, NBC said.

It’s called having cake and eating it. Impossible, you say? Nah. Happens a lot.

They will have their bans, won’t they?

Published 7/9/2018

Signs of blossoming fascism in our land.

Reminds of Nazi street squads of ’30s. Bad, bad.

The man knows how to argue. Keeps his eye on the ball, rarely misses.

Argument here for K. as a strong pick.