Taking it to NC Reporter, a.k.a Fishwrap or National Schismatic Reporter.

Hmmm.

via Fr. Z’s Blog

What did the expert say about their Helsinki press conference?

“If the [UK prime minister] May/Trump summit looked chilly, this Trump/Putin meeting looked buried under a thick layer of perma-frost.

“Both men arrived performing the kind of alpha posturing you normally see in a boxing ring, swaggering with puffed chests and in Trump’s case a mouth clamp plus what was bordering on a scowl to camera as both pulled at their jackets in what is commonly a ‘prepare to fight’ ritual.

“In the room for the photo-call though they looked more like a sullen, divorcing couple at crisis counseling.

“Putin was especially sphinx-like, returning little of the sparse eye contact he received from Trump and maintaining a poker face even after Trump’s ‘soccer’ flattery was being translated for him.

“Trump sat in his usual ‘Trump Slump’ pose with his legs splayed and his fingers in ‘downward steeple’ position to register macho dominance but this time his fingertips tapped together throughout which is a sign of impatience.

“Putin adopted a more elegant power pose, sitting upright with one elbow on the arm of the chair

——————– (two gladiators sitting) —————

——————– (two gladiators sitting) —————^^^^^^^^

but as Trump spoke Putin’s other hands clasped the lower strut of the chair arm as though irritation could have been making him keen to go.

Not happy campers, the lady is saying.

via Express.co.uk

What’s he up to?

I do not know but am not panicking. For one thing, he has not got rich by being a patsy. I mean really rich.

Am staying tuned, as always.

Later, alligator. (When music was music and dancing was dancing.)

Headline story via Daily Mail Online

What’s going on at this Jesuit-run institution?

via Instapundit » 

More on Tebow.

via Instapundit

Heading for the bigs, Christian faith and all.

Defining religion down.

The group has taken issue with section 88 of the new document, which states: “Thus to have kept her body in perfect continence or to have practiced the virtue of chastity in an exemplary way, while of great importance with regard to the discernment, are not essential prerequisites in the absence of which admittance to consecration is not possible.”

The USACV said it was “shocking to hear from Mother Church that physical virginity may no longer be considered an essential prerequisite for consecration to a life of virginity.”

“The entire tradition of the Church has firmly upheld that a woman must have received the gift of virginity – that is, both material and formal (physical and spiritual) – in order to receive the consecration of virgins,” the association added.

Part of an ongoing project in the age of Francis whereby “discernment” is the thing, get it?

In this case, when is a virgin not a virgin? When “discernment” makes it so. Put another way, when Francis’ reformed curia says so.

Age of Aquarius has come and gone. A new one is here, in which It Don’t Mean A Thing If It Ain’t Got That Swing discernment.

more more here via CatholicHerald.co.uk

Who’d a thunk it?

The Times review doesn’t acknowledge it, but people were and are stressed, even “acutely” stressed, under Communism and socialism, too.

Maybe the issue isn’t “neoliberal ideology” – which goes undefined in the review and can mean a lot of different things — or “capitalism,” but human nature.

Trouble is, stress is always with us.

via The Future of Capitalism

Geez, she some kind of outlaw or something?

She “ignored his advice by opting for a soft Brexit strategy,” says Sun.

Another speak softly-carry-no stick-performer taken to school.