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Reflecting on Pope Leo XIV’s recent address on the topic of Catholic social doctrine, it is worth noting that the Pope regards such “doctrine” linked to a substantive body of knowledge and reflecting a process in pursuit of truth. He stated:
“In the case of the Church’s social doctrine, we need to make clear that the word “doctrine” has another, more positive meaning, without which dialogue itself would be meaningless. ‘Doctrine’ can be a synonym of ‘science,’ ‘discipline’ and ‘knowledge.’ Under…
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Otherwise you are making their destiny not brighter but darker.”
— C.S. Lewis
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Great talk today with @VinceCoglianese about Joe Biden’s cancer … I pray for his best possible outcome, that he recovers, so he can confess his many crimes!
Is the diagnosis a cover story? I think so. Biden has much to hide. Details in my Substack Midnight in the Laptop of Good and Evil …
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I'm really good at helping other people sort their shit out.
But terrible at dealing with mine.
You know, when your ideas, interests and notes are all over the show? That's me.
I need a wrapper.
Everyone wants to focus on the strategy. The messaging failures. The tactical faceplants. None of it matters. Not really. Because the problem isn’t the strategy.
The problem is the audience.
You can mock the White House’s response, call it a clown car, call it a panic spiral, call it what it is: A panicked, unraveling cover-up from a regime so convinced of its own impunity it can’t even lie coherently anymore. But the deeper rot? The thing no one in the Beltway wants to say out loud?
It’s working.
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"Because a country that rejects reality will not be saved by truth. It will have to be rebuilt in the ruins of its own delusion."
If it can be rebuilt at all.
Yes. 100%.
If it can be rebuilt at all.
There’s no guarantee that what comes next will be better. History isn’t a pendulum—it’s a fire. Sometimes the things we think are temporary collapses are actually permanent extinctions.