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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Save our institutions and our freedom from Woke; the laity vs. the bishops; a book about Lyme disease and biological warfare
Show Notes:
Cambridge chancellor condemns media frenzy after Black professor’s death
How can lay Catholics spur bishops into action? (Phil at CatholicCulture)
Nathan Cofnas (who wrote about Jason Arday, exposing his plagiarism and lac...
Wokeness requires the immolation of its adherents
Jason Arday found dead. “Jason Arday, a former University of Cambridge professor who was at the centre of a plagiarism scandal, has died aged 41. Arday had resigned earlier this month as a professor of sociology of education following the...
Gov. Healey vs. the Church: excommunication or...? Principles and prudence in politics and saying what you mean.
Show Notes:
Governor Healey signs abortion bill (and here on the MA website).
John O’Sullivan reacts to Healey photo on X
The Massachusetts bishops’ polite collapse by Phil Lawler
Excommunication? Not gonna happen by Phil Lawler
Sta...
Saying what you really think: freedom and friendship
Shortly after lockdown ended, a nice-looking lady with a few kids in a wagon stopped me on the little street of a beach town. “I think I know you — are you Leila Lawler?” Turns out I had given a talk on making a little oratory in the home a...
Peaceful assembly underlies all other 1A rights; Florida bishops rightly rebuked on vaccine mandates
Show Notes:
Jeff Childers: “The Constitution’s essence prioritizes individual rights over collective ones, even in “pandemics.” A journalist who intellectually grasped the Constitutional rights hierarchy would at least have acknowledged...
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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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