They are in my some-are-my-best-friends category, public-school teachers. But . . .

Hat tip Bill Ranieri

Running for governor, he says nuts to the usual debate arrangements:

“Typically, Republican statewide candidates fall prey to the trap of debates that are effectively a two against-one matchup, in which the mainstream media, who moderate the debates, are unpaid advocates and ideological allies of the Democrat candidates,” he said.

Says he and his opponent can work something out that confronts and negates the usual palsy-walsy Dems-and-tee-vee-buddies shows meant to satisfy lefties while cutting down the right.

Mastriano, a state senator who represents Gettysburg, wrote in a letter to Shapiro, the state’s attorney general, “I challenge you to two 90-minute debates in the month of October, one at a location of your choosing, and one at a location of my choosing.”

He suggested that each debate have two moderators, “again, one of your choosing and one of my choosing — who will be allowed an equal number of questions asked of each candidate. The topics for the debates can be open-ended with no limits.”

An equal-opportunity tangle. Should break viewing records.

Peddlers of Covid panic ‘fess up.

Same priest, a Carmelite, had cost the Los Angeles archdiocese very much money.

Another case against Boley, in which a woman accused him of abusing her as a child while he taught at Los Angeles’ St. Raphael Parish in the 1980s, was one of hundreds of abuse claims settled by the Archdiocese of Los Angeles in 2007.

The Archdiocese of Los Angeles’ $660 million payout to settle the Boley abuse claim and more than 500 others remains the largest-ever settlement in the Catholic Church’s decades-long sexual abuse scandal.

When asked whether the Archdiocese of Chicago was aware of abuse accusations against Boley upon his arrival at St. Clara-St. Cyril in 1987, [spokesman] Gonzales directed Block Club to the Province of the Most Pure Heart of Mary.

Yes or no. Question is whether A knew, A says ask someone else.

Polls of the U.S. public continue to show that up to twice as many Americans have lost a household member.

Polls of the U.S. public continue to show that up to twice as many Americans have lost a household member to a Covid vaccine injury as have lost one to Covid.

The pooled results of five surveys of the American public, now totalling over 2,500 people, show that while 4.4% of respondents reported that someone in their household had died from COVID-19, 8.9% said someone had died as a result of Covid vaccination.

Twice as many.

A rich lode here. Read on.

Neither man Catholic or church-loving.

Friedrich Nietzsche, Die fröhliche Wissenschaft, 5.358 (tr. Walter Kaufmann):

He [Luther] gave back to the priest sexual intercourse with women; but three quarters of the reverence of which the common people, especially the women among the common people, are capable, rests on the faith that a person who is an exception at this point will be an exception in other respects as well.

Samuel Butler, The Way of All Flesh, chapter 26:

I have often thought that the Church of Rome does wisely in not allowing her priests to marry. Certainly it is a matter of common observation in England that the sons of clergymen are frequently unsatisfactory.

Joe Biden is an errand boy, a figurehead, and he has outlived his plausibility, says Roger Kimball in Spectator World, and Obama man David Axelrod signals it.

Axelrod’s breathtaking admission [on CNN] was part of the next step in resetting the political chess board.

It was another stage in the emergency effort at damage control that the shadowy cadre of people who actually run the United States have been undertaking ever since the full magnitude of Joe Biden’s incompetence became manifest.

Why did it take so long? Kimball asks.

How a superman does it:

Detailed account.

ICKSP (Institute of Christ the King Soverign Priest) Clergy and faithful in adoration outside their Chicago church, July 31, 2022.

Keith Armato, a prominent Chicago Catholic layman involved with the Institute,

. . . had read the letter of Cardinal Cupich announcing the suspension of the ICKSP priests as of August 1 [and had] explained to LifeSite that the reason for this suspension is that the Institute could not, in their conscience, sign a document presented to them by Cupich.

In that document, which contains several points, the ICKSP priests were asked to sign that the Novus Ordo Mass is the only true expression of the Roman rite, thereby rejecting the traditional Roman rite.

Among other things, the priests were also asked to accept that they would have to ask the archbishop for permission to celebrate the traditional Latin Mass, and that this permission would be limited to two years and could be revoked at any given time.

Armato had told LifeSite that the Institute could not sign this document because it goes “against their charism.”

Hell, it could go against their status as people who can’t bring themselves to sign under pressure. And what kind of church or any other kind of leader would take seriously any such signature?

Unless he wanted them to go away, period.

You’d think he was a Roman emperor. Heavy, heavy hangs the hand.