The issue is more that he has the Dominicans doing casuistry for him as their special little boy that I would question (with an openness to correction) their willingness to extend to random parishioners.

Really good essay, see below for two passages that stuck out to me: open.substack.com/pub/lindsayt...

Amazing essay by Katie Baker (who I learned is exactly two weeks younger than me) with this quote from Zohran:

Just walked by Schlossberg campaigning. Only in New York baby (I am voting for Bores).

That was an extremely unimpressive affair, especially for a bishop to expend authority on in the current political climate, and betrayed a cramped vision of higher education in which getting in line or keeping one’s mouth shut are the main options for certain persons.

Condescending while trying to validate: the J.D. Vance promise!

“Tonal arguments are ways of, frankly, policing working class ways of communication, and covering them in elite preferences”

Condescending while trying to validate: the J.D. Vance promise!

> be a world power > lose a war you started for unclear reasons > sign a treaty at versaille > owe hundreds of billions in reparations

"So ... so I said ... why not sign your treaty here, at Versailles?"

This is characteristic of the seething resentment of Trump-supporting Catholics for Pope Francis especially because he wouldn’t validate their theological-political project.

This is the effect of urban-rural sorting where people like Hawley think they’re freed by undemocratic mechanisms from having to pretend to share a country with cosmopolitan urbanities.

oracle of delphi voice

Brains of the operation.

Ol' Nothing-Bad-Happened-Involving-Guns-When-He-Was-A-Kid Bobby, they call him

These guys are going to be so obnoxious about this. MLB decided not to fine them even though they could have, and instead put out a generic reminder/warning about uniform rules, and right-wing doofuses are doing the victim crap again.

They hate gender studies for the same reason they hate legitimate journalism: They don’t like people pointing out what they’re doing.

Line around the block for Knicks merch. #RIPModells

Contrast all of this with our baseball-and-basketball fan, peace-loving pope.

The second sentence is a contemptible rejection of what are supposed to be American ideals.

The combination of analytical tone with barely-disguised celebration is completely characteristic of how this segment of the intellectual right has comported itself in the Trump era.

I have to actually read (ok, skim) this thing for a book chapter I’m trying to finish.

NPR is comparing a trans woman fleeing Texas for her personal safety with a conservative fleeing Seattle because he was annoyed with his neighbors. This is honestly insane both sides framing to a degree that is just blatant lying by omission.

J.D. losing trad vote with this soy ecumenism.

I think Vance is running into a problem many have been pointing out for a while: He’s signed up for an ideology that wants the Catholic Church to take on a more public role in support of right-wing postliberalism, but the actually existing Catholic Church rejects that project.

anyway, AOC 2028 - for what's good about this country

Wrecking ball or nothing. Everyone should feel ashamed to have ever supported (or soft-pedaled opposition to) any of this.

Even very thoughtful people in these settings often settle on an anti-anti-Trump position thanks to the cognitive dissonance between an accurate perception of reality and what it takes to avoid themselves and their children being treated as pariahs by neighbors and colleagues.

He is an unserious person who is high on his own supply due to conservative intellectuals making him into their savior.

Not limited to media. This has been regular behavior of people in conservative milieus who want to appear reasonable but avoid any risk of opprobrium from their neighbors and colleagues.

This is the “nice family man” who delusional conservative Catholics tell themselves gives hope for a post-Trump conservatism.

Every time J.D. opens his mouth on this stuff he shows how gullible he thinks his conservative Christian audience is.

The juxtaposition of the Knicks win/celebration and what’s happening in DC couldn’t be more distinct. Diversity, community, spontaneity, populism vs. tax dollars spent on Trump’s allies, friends and business partners.

Rep. AOC posts new photo on Instagram celebrating the Knicks alongside Mayor Zohran Mamdani

A new era in NYC.

Real heads wanted one more point.

“I want a man like me in New York.” - @dapope.bsky.social

ICYMI: my column looking at the “internal” reform dynamics of Magnifica Humanitas:

Emile Mersch on the Mystical Body:

open.substack.com/pub/gorebuil... My latest explores the internal reform dynamics of Magnifica Humanitas:

open.substack.com/pub/gorebuil... My latest explores the internal reform dynamics of Magnifica Humanitas:

Get Eddington back in theaters now!

Trying to do my part in going to weird Off-Broadway theatre.

Always a fun conference! Join us next year in Latrobe!

Quoted in NCR:

This is why the anti-authoritarian projects inside and outside the church are so closely related, as I am presently writing about.

Interesting that today is Stevie Nicks' birthday one day after the New York Knicks— (shot by an arrow)

That line in the encyclical combined with Fernandez apologizing about Jon Sobrino’s treatment by CDF is quite significant.

There are a few threads in the encyclical if you’re looking for development of doctrine stuff, but phrasing this differently would have overwhelmed the discourse. The absence of a “gender ideology” aside combined with positive appreciation of women’s rights is the more noteworthy point.