Links: Great obituary for a great priest

Links: Great obituary for a great priest 

First Things is best ignored, except as a barometer of how wrong the bishops who have sold their offices to the Republican Party are.

Gohmert is a barometer of crazy in the GOP. He also does not know that Pence certifies only Vice Presidential Elector votes. Corruptly calling himself the winner is more then even Pence would do.

May Fr. Foster's memory be a blessing.

After this year, we need a good laugh. It is wonderful graffiti.

Trump loyalists, when compelled to testify, will face the decision to fall on their swords by not testifying, lying or telling the truth. Two out of three are after pardon crimes. Regardless, punishing Trump criminally is not as much fun as his creditors picking over the bones of Trumpworld, with the SDNY taking the rest. Nothing is ignored as surely as financial failure.

If all of high Church Christianity gets one selection, the Cathedral tops the list. I used to live across from the Cathedral and would sit on my stoup and watch it catch the evening light. It holds Mass every week and Ecumenical Patriarch Melios recognizes Canterbury as having valid orders, regardless of the objections of the Western Patriarch. Wanting an explicitly Catholic site is simply identity politics. The Catholic site I would add to the list is the Mission Church with the miracle spiral staircase. It exists with no external support. No one ever caught the name of the carpenter who built it, but it is reputed to be someone named Joseph.

Sadly for the heroes of 1991, Russia has descended into an autocracy led by a KGB colonel. Trump wants to be him. I suspect that Vlad will lose patience with the Donald because the sanctions are still in place and cannot be lifted unilaterally.