Which I intend to do, but first, consider this about the video from a Michael Sean Winters column of last November:

As Jesuit Fr. Jim Martin pointed out in responding to the [Rev. Thomas] Weinandy’s strange account of how he came to the conclusion that Jesus wanted him to write to the pope [a highly critical letter last October]: “If one’s idea of discernment is seeking signs like this, then why would one trust, say, a divorced and remarried Catholic to consult his or her conscience about whether it is permissible to receive Communion? It is no wonder that discernment seems so arbitrary to some people. And so frightening.”

To which I am constrained to ask why Fr. Martin and others, including Winters, would be concerned with what a pope says in the first place.

If discernment opens the way for them to do what they wish, why were they bothered by previous popes who narrowed their options?

via National Catholic Reporter

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.

more more more via Fr. Z’s Blog

. . . Wyoming loved its women.

via Instapundit » Blog Archive » 

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.

Obvious, but good, point.

“This police academy is a shiny object that Rahm Emanuel can point to and say, `I’m all about police reform.’ It’s for political purposes — not functional purposes,“ McCarthy said.

Thing is, I can, perhaps naively, think some of the candidates are capable of having non-political purposes, but not Rahm.

With my first Chicago mayoral vote ever coming up, I find myself eager to participate.

via Chicago Sun-Times

He’s been dipping into Robert Frost lately.

ROME – Closing an ecumenical encounter with Christian leaders from the Middle East, Pope Francis on Saturday said that “truces maintained by walls and displays of power will not lead to peace,” only a concrete desire to engage in dialogue will work.

Seriously, folks, can’t he come up with something not market-tested? OK words abound, do they not?

(Robert Frost? Here. He could do worse, I grant you. Yet and still . . . )

Also, how were them dialogs with Palestinians led (a while back) by the likes of Yassir Arafat and friends? Intransigents all.

via Pope: Truces imposed by force won’t bring peace to Middle East

When in curial appointments, as in its being Italian bishops uber alles.

via MondayVatican