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Obviously the role of the bishop is to shepherd the faithful through crises like “The Last Jedi was too feminist” and to stay out of distractions like “we don't have Catholic Relief Services anymore”

“In hard times, don’t make your ability to understand God’s ways the condition for trusting him.” – Michael Reeves

I’m very familiar, I grew up covering that stuff, but I think people don’t understand how different this is - we’re not talking about local book bannings or even yanking of art grants for atheists or anything like that. There may be an equivalent instinct to censor in some circles but the sheer scale of laws like the DSA or NetzDG ot the…

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The President and the Pope

Our whole stupid fallen world is bent on praising your fallen nature and demonizing the struggle you must engage in if you are to be happy. “You be you” is bad advice because you are an idiot. Rather, put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to gratify its desires.

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Today I start using Substack

I used to like Twitter but always felt very constrained by the 144 limit

This brought problems for the irony-challenged, who misunderstood a lot of what I was trying to say

This is a particular problem for me because I seem to be regarded as ‘on the left’ by people on the right, and' ‘on the right’ by people on the left

Apparently this makes me controversial, and therefore box office poison