Lady Gaga and the like have nailed the VP’s wife for teaching in a private Christian school that holds for marriage being only for man and wife.

Ugly stuff. Read it if you can take it.

But who said this on the radio in 2004?

“I’m a Christian, and so although I try not to have my religious beliefs dominate or determine my political views on this issue, I do believe that tradition and my religious beliefs say that marriage is something sanctified between a man and a woman.”

Barack Obama, that’s who.

So why are so many eager to cast the first stone against Mrs. Pence and not Mr. Obama? Because everyone knew when Mr. Obama spoke he didn’t really mean it; his position was taken out of political calculation. Mrs. Pence’s sin is that she really believes what she says.

And she better shut up about it.

Poor Vatican people CANNOT get stories straight.

Buenos Aires, Argentina, Jan 20, 2019 / 12:38 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- In an exclusive report from the Associated Press, the former vicar to Argentine Bishop Gustavo Oscar Zanchetta said that the Vatican had had information about sexual abuse allegations against Zanchetta for several years.

This contradicts a Vatican statement made just weeks ago in which they said that they had only gained knowledge of sexual abuse allegations against Zanchetta a few months ago.

The devil makes them do this.

When spooks meet, strange things happen.

WASHINGTON—U.S. intelligence officials have met with North Korean counterparts secretly for a decade, a covert channel that allowed communications during tense times, aided in the release of detainees and helped pave the way for President Trump’s historic summit last year with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.

And before that, the end of missile testing? An important foreign-policy achievement by this POTUS.

Quite good coverage of this media fiasco.

Meanwhile, the Covington mayor and bishop and school authorities are hanging their heads, we presume.

Here is the Covington Catholic students’ (documented) side of the story of the native American harassed by the students. Not quite harassed, rather harassed themselves in a put-up job by veteran activist and others. School should be proud of these students.

Harsh, accurate, arresting:

The current regime in Rome will damage the Catholic Church. Pope ­Francis combines laxity and ruthlessness. His style is casual and approachable; his church politics are cold and cunning. There are leading themes in this pontificate—­mercy, accompaniment, peripheries, and so forth—but no theological framework. He is a verbal semi-automatic weapon, squeezing off rounds of barbed remarks, spiritual aperçus, and earthy asides (­coprophagia!). This has created a confusing, even dysfunctional atmosphere that will become intolerable, if it hasn’t already.

I go for the latter.

Pope Francis, by contrast [with popes John Paul II and Benedict, who had their
own agendas], is quick to denounce, widening gaps rather than closing them. More often than not, he targets the core Catholic faithful. He regularly attacks “mummified” Christians and “rosary counters.” On many occasions, Francis has singled out doctrinally orthodox priests for ridicule. The same holds for those who favor the Latin Mass, whom he derides as suffering from a “rigidity” born of “insecurity.” Early in his pontificate, his Christmas sermon to the curia recited a litany of condemnations.

more more more

F: Me now pope, forget B.

Pope Francis has a plan to eliminate the legacy and disciples of Benedict XVI. The operation has stirred up the Vatican, which has not by any means significantly opposed the incumbent Pope.

It’s a sort of coup d’etat atmosphere.