
Stands to Reason


โJohn the Baptist didnโt have a cushy office set-up at the Temple. He preached in the wilderness, but this did not make him the schismatic separatist. They were all back in Jerusalemโ (Papa Donโt Pope, p. 69).
โThe faithful Roman Catholic is told that he cannot interpret the fixed Bible without the aid of non-stipulated, non-fixed magisterium. It is like being told that you cannot read the map rightly without being given the keyโbut then the key is hiddenโ (Papa Donโt Pope, p. 63).
Introduction: A couple years ago, I wrote a post entitled The 9 Pitfalls of Homeschooling. At that time, in a fine display of even-handedness, I promised that there would be a follow up post outlining the pitfalls of Christian schools. I said: โPlease allow me to say that there will be a follow-up and parallel …
โThere is a vast mountain of teaching and conflicting voices to sort through, and one thing the magisterium has not done is give us a table of contents to identify the precise boundaries of that magisterium. Where can I go and get a leather-bound set of all the infallible determinations of the Church?โ (Papa Donโt …
You Say You Want a Revolution I apologize that this comment is somewhat removed from the article to which it is attached, but I have been considering a related question since Cuomo signed this atrocity. You may recall that toward the end of Lewis’ Perelandra, Ransom comes to the revelation that his possessed enemy, Weston, …
โBut reason is an eyeball, and not a source of light. God created us with a faculty for rational weighing and sifting of evidence so that we could submit to light from outside. Every form of religion and secularism that tries to make the eyeball shed light is therefore doomed to failureโ (Papa Donโt Pope, …
The meltdown that is Democratic Party politics continues apace. So what happened this last weekโfueled in large measure, as you all have no doubt surmised, by Trump Derangement Syndromeโwas something like this. In anticipation of Trump possibly getting a third Supreme Court appointment in his first term, certain states like New York and Virginia have …
The Abolition of Man: Okay, I should probably acknowledge something right at the front end of this short review. And that is that I have read The Abolition of Man by C.S. Lewis at least nine times, and I have quoted from it times without number. It is one of my โgo toโ books, and …
โโBrethren! These divisions are disgraceful! Our proposal for eliminating them is for everyone to stop being obstinate and join us!โโ (Papa Donโt Pope, p. 54).