
Politically Incorrect Guide to Catholicism
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- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Chapter 1: The Church: What It Says about Itself, the World, and What Will Happen to You When You Die
- Freak of Nature or Piece of Supernature?
- It Started with Sin
- Remnant of Israel, People of God
- The Mystical Body of Christ
- A Conversation You're Not Supposed to Have: Why Should We Believe Any of This Stuff?
- Chapter 2: The Pope, the Other Bishops, and When and Why Catholics Have to Believe What They Say-and When and Why We Don't
- Why Popes? Because the Buck Has to Stop Somewhere
- The Magisterium: A Backstop against Creeping Unitarianism
- The Law Written on the Human Heart
- There Is No "Catholic" Ideology That We Have to Believe In
- Does God Pick the Popes and Put Words in Their Mouths?
- Cafeteria Catholics . . . and Feeding Tube Catholics
- A Conversation You're Not Supposed to Have: The Pope Is Not an Oracle
- Chapter 3: One, Holy, Catholic, and Thoroughly Splintered Church
- Vatican II: Pope John XXIII's Fragmentation Bomb
- The "Spirit of Vatican II" vs. the Texts of the Council
- Chapter 4: How Birth Control Tore the Church Apart
- The Church and the Pill
- Chapter 5: Progressive Catholics and Their Permanent Revolution
- Everybody's a (Biblical) Critic!
- Camel Finding It Really Difficult to Get through the Eye of That Needle
- The Priest (and Nun, and Lay Catholic) Shortage
- Progressive Politics as a Substitute Religion
- Chapter 6: They Kept the Faith: The "Orthodox" and Traditionalist Response to Post-Vatican II Chaos and Dissent
- The Catholic Folk Resistance: The "Orthodox Catholic" Subculture
- Tradition, Tradition!
- How the Catholic Church Became a Subculture
- The Rest of Us
- Chapter 7: The Church and the Free Market
- Catholicism or Socialism: Pick One
- Money Is Not the Root of All Evil
- Economics for Catholics Who Are Bad at Math
- The Just Price Is the Market Price-as Thomas Aquinas Taught
- Subsidiarity: The Catholic Church's Tea Party Principle
- Solidarity: More than an Anti-Communist Labor Union
- Solidarity Perverted
- But What about Dorothy Day?
- "God Bless Castro"
- Chapter 8: Amnesty Equals Abortion
- The Church's Teaching, Distorted by Our Shepherds
- What the Church Actually Teaches on Immigration
- "To the Extent They Are Able"
- "Immigrants Are Obliged to Respect with Gratitude the Material and Spiritual Heritage of the Country That Receives Them"
- "To Obey Its Laws and to Assist in Carrying Civic Burdens"
- Mass Immigration as a Mode of Conquest and Plunder
- Visible and Invisible
- Cash Cows and Canon Fodder
- Chapter 9: Is the Catholic Church a Global Gun-Free Zone?
- Don't Try to Compete with Jesus
- Gun Rights Are Human Rights
- Eternal Vigilance Is the Price of Liberty
- The Death Penalty: Confusing Mercy with Mushiness
- Why Some Christians Oppose the Death Penalty-but Shouldn't
- The God of the Happy Moments
- St. John Paul II on Capital Punishment
- The Church's Timeless Teaching on Self-Defense Assailed by Peaceniks at the Vatican
- But What about the Crusades?
- A Conversation You're Not Supposed to Have: Why Not Use Violence against Abortionists?
- Chapter 10: Is the Church Anti-Science?
- Did the Church Quash Education, Scientific Research, and Technological Development?
- Galileo: Self-Aggrandizing Jackass
- Will the Vatican Start an Infallible Weather Channel?
- The Climate Changes-That's One of the Things It Does
- Limiting Carbon Emissions: A Preferential Option for the Rich?
- The Real Threat to Science Is Not the Catholic Church, but a Competing Religion: Scientism
- Chapter 11: Sex, Sanity, and the Catholic Church
- Abortion: The American Gulag, Holocaust, and Ukrainian Famine All Rolled Up in One
- Replacing the Sexual Gold Standard with Monopoly Money
- The Least Binding Contract You'll Ever Sign-How Marriage Became Much Less Sacred (and Eternal) than Student Loans
- The Catholic Church's Alternative to the Chaos: Same as It Ever Was
- Chapter 12: Temptations and Opportunities for the Church
- Putative Pro-Lifers and Verbal Pacifism
- "Celibate" Gay Catholic Wedding Ceremonies in Church?
- The "Benedict Option": Hiding Our Light under a Bushel in the Vain Hope the World Will Leave Us Alone
- When Christians Give Up on Freedom
- The Stench of Corruption: Child Abuse
- Signs of Hope and Opportunity for Catholics
- Core Principles We Can Cling To
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Index
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