I just saw a port-a-let and for the first time I wondered where does that name come from. And then I realized the "let" comes from "toilet." So now I know, and you do too, if you didn't already.

Editorial in the National Catholic Reporter: "The vice president's comments justifying the death of Renee Good are a moral stain on the collective witness of our Catholic faith. His repeated attempts to blame Good for her own death are fundamentally incompatible with the Gospel."

Minneapolis public schools canceled classes officials after Roosevelt High School said armed Border Patrol officers came on school property during dismissal Wednesday and began tackling people, handcuffed two staff members and released chemical weapons on bystanders www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

I look forward to seeing the powerful, searing statement of a famous Minnesota Catholic bishop with a global audience and large PR machine condemning the shedding of innocent blood in his state, standing up for Catholic pro-life teaching against murder and violence

Everything on the internet marked "oddly satisfying" is really just satisfying. There's nothing odd about being satisfied by, say, watching a lawn mowed perfectly or a cake iced on one of those spinning wheels or whatever.

Silksong update: I've been playing it a lot. Last night I decided to attempt the 5 hour speedrun achievement. I was 3 hours in and stopped before the High Halls gauntlet. I was feeling pretty confident so close to the end of the game.

The Jubilee year ends on Jan 6. Everybody say goodbye to Luce! Gone, but not forgotten.

Happy Feast of the Apostrophe to all those who celebrate!

Can someone show me where in the body of Catholic social teaching that we "embraced the market economy"?

I read the first sentence and was thinking to myself wait why am I following Bishop Barron? 10/10 no notes

They say imitation crab is the sincerest form of crab

Midnight Mass prep

As a Catholic it’s very bizarre to me to see the children (Evangelical, non-denom MAGA Christian Nationalists) yearn for relics, martyrs, and pilgrimage yet find it abhorrent when Catholics do it with our relics, martyrs, and pilgrims. The house is glass.

Wild Boar Piglet by Hans Hoffmann, 1578.

"Three Kings" cover illustration by J.C. Leyendecker for 'Success' magazine (December 1900).

An absolute bedrock institution for understanding how the planet works, just civilization-scaled vandalism by the most incurious morons on Earth

Ugh. Neither evangelization nor culture are academic disciplines. CUA (my alma mater too), please don't do this.

I recommend a reusable Advent wreath:

Be sure you rewatch Stephen Colbert's old King of Glory video on YouTube this Advent season, or Santa's bringing you coal.

Hunter is the base game. Learn it or uninstall the game. Beast is how it was meant to be played. Witch is cool, but it's not beast. Shaman is probably good, but I've been focusing on other crests. Wanderer is for players who can't/won't learn new tricks. Reaper is a baby crest, for babies.

People still read Time Magazine?

Someone went there: "It Kind of Seems Like Peter Thiel is Losing It" via @futurism.com futurism.com/future-socie...

Amazing with how cruel and broken this world is, there are people actively seeking to make it crueler.

The shift from “art” to “content” really has been the tech industry’s greatest contribution to the downfall of humanity. God I’m so relieved that we don’t have art anymore. We just have content and content distribution systems. You know, like a trough for barnyard animals. Yum yum.

throwing out offensive (and nonsensical) ai parodies of beloved children's characters to own the libs... Not that anyone would be surprised, but I think this is clear evidence that Don Jr's dad didn't read to him as a child.

"TEMU UNITED STATES" is a great name for this era of American history.

The RSF just attacked a kindergarten, killing at least 33 children in Sudan. Meanwhile, the Trump Admin. continues to sell arms to the UAE, who are aiding these atrocities. Imagine if Trump spent as much time trying to stop the killing, as he did getting the UAE to invest in his crypto coin.

She compares the boat strikes to Jesus breaking the sabbath to heal someone.

NEW info on shipwreck attack. It gets worse. The 2 survivors climbed atop wreckage and waved to overhead. "Some of the people viewing the video thought ... could have been an attempt to surrender" Others "said the most logical explanation was ... signaling for a rescue." 1/

Less Krampus content more Befana content please.

Beast crest is best crest. (If you know, you know.)

Karoline Leavitt read the same canned statement five times today in response to questions about the September 2nd double strike in the Caribbean:

I'm a Pope Francis fan, but I have my complaints. The Italian translation of the Our Father did not need to be softened away from "lead us not into temptation" to "do not abandon us to temptation." It's a perfectly common poetic turn throughout Scripture. We gonna retranslate Psalm 141 too?

Infuriating that our leaders equivocate the 'war' in "the War on Drugs" with actual, declared war. Just another of hundreds of examples of their manipulation of language to fashion a world of chaos.

What a great headline

A story written by the author of all lies, Satan working through the hands of callow men to turn purity and goodness into rotten, festering avarice, terrorizing children until they understand love is a product to be bought under the soulless watch of a cop.

Introduce yourself with four spaceships

Francis was more Mike Shinoda whereas Leo is more Chester

I am playing D&D with five friends via Zoom and we’re all in our fifties and my young teen self knowing this would be happening would be so happy and satisfied.

The greatest country in the world shouldn't have to keep telling you it's the greatest country in the world.

Lo! He comes with clouds descending!

I told a church full of high schoolers today that as of today, it's perfectly fine if they listen to Christmas music. St. Martin has rode in on his white horse! (Well, it didn't quite snow, but it got pretty cold in Mobile, and I'll take it.) @apocrypals.bsky.social y'all know what's up

Real photo from last night in New York. It's like a real life bat signal, and boy do we need it.

Imagine this text on a baptismal font or a baptistry wall 🥹😲

Getting ready for tomorrow's feast day by listening to the Apocrypals episode on St. Martin of Tours: @apocrypals.bsky.social @benitocereno.bsky.social @theisb.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...

At our first birth, we were vessels of God's wrath; reborn, we became vessels of his mercy. St. Caesarius of Arles

This motif is driving me crazy. If I were in a cartoon and got knocked out, these things would be flying around my head.

I've always thought/taught that the title "co-redemptrix" is only true in an extremely narrow/idiosyncratic sense and that to a lesser degree "mediatrix of all graces" also causes more confusion than true devotion so I welcome the clarifications of Mater Populi Fidelis www.vatican.va/roman_curia/...