Leila Marie Lawler. Also known as Auntie Leila: that friend your kids can't very well call Mrs. Lawler. Recovering the collective memory. I alone am left to tell you. Short (I hope) ramblings, drafted, written, and edited without the use of AI.
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The Overton Window now; SCOTUS and trans; what bishops need to disavow
Show Notes:
The Overton Window (Mackinac Center)
An Introduction to the Overton Window of Political Possibilities (Mackinac Center)
US ambassador to Holy See visits Taybeh day after settler attack on locals, European diplomats (Zeale)...
Fr. Ripperger, silenced
{Please read right to the end before you comment!}
Exorcist Father Ripperger Agrees to One-Year ‘Fast’ From Public Speaking
We don’t have much information on Archbishop James Golka’s request — the word used is “request”— that Fr. Ch...
Catholic teaching on capital punishment, principles and prudence; Fr. James Martin’s deceptions
Show Notes:
Changes in the Catechism on capital punishment:
Original wording
2266: Preserving the common good of society requires rendering the aggressor unable to inflict harm. For this reason, the traditional teaching of the Church...
AI: Man can’t make consciousness; Vatican in denial as lavender mafia has its way; and more!
Show Notes:
Religious Scholars Met with Anthropic. What They Heard Stunned Them (New York Times) (archived here)
A warning about ‘model welfare’ (Mustafa Suleyman, Substack)
10 Years After Amoris Laetitia, Bishops to Discuss Challenge...
Grandparents kill their way out of gender ideology; Pope Leo in France; the Cornell 7: how about basic decency? and more!
Show Notes:
Pope Leo in France: highlights
Pope Leo’s in-flight presser: “So, I would say, if that’s politics, I did that, but it was not to get involved in French politics. It was to teach what the Church really believes.”
The insani...
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Married to Phil Lawler, mother of seven, grandmother of a score of grandchildren and praying for more. Kitchen sink philosophy. I alone am left to tell you. Content written and edited without the use of AI.
Catholic journalist/editor for 40+ years. Author of books including: The Faithful Departed, on the decline of Catholic influence in Boston; Lost Shepherd, a candid appraisal of Pope Francis. Most recently, his first novel, Ghost Runner.
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