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The War on Drugs is a war on us.

Sometimes, we forget how bad things have become.  This graph shows the number of Americans in jail.  This year, about 1,600,000 of our neighbors have been put in cages.  Many are serving LWOP, which stands for Life Without Parole.  Maybe, a third are in because they are vicious criminals.  Most are jailed as the result […]
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Letter #22 from a Protestant minister.

Pastor Pitstop is very concerned.  He feels that God made us all in His image.  He has developed the theory that all of us are equal.  He is somewhat upset that Catholic priests are more respected than Protestant clergy.  That, he lets us know with great feeling, is wrong. Dear Catholic Fundamentalism: It just sickens […]
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Two thousand years of history in a page

A Christian Monarchy, exemplified by Ferdinand and Isabella in Spain, is best for saving souls.  The devil didn’t think it was fair.  “If everybody has to obey the King, and his laws are good, then fewer people have the opportunity to sin.  When fewer people sin, I get fewer souls.  It isn’t fair!” After Europe […]
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Letter #21 from a Protestant Pastor. “We are not zombies!”

This is the second letter this week from our dear friend, Pastor Pitstop.  Now, Pastor Pitstop wants to let us know that he feels very insulted.  Some Catholic woman mentioned to him that she thought he was a “zombie”.  He is upset. Dear Catholic Fundamentalism: Some rude, insulting Catholic woman has hurt my feelings.  I […]
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Jesus’ “Least Commandments” aren’t all obvious, but should be obeyed.

The Catholic Church encourages obedience to all of Jesus’ “least commandments”.  Protestants obey some of them.  Even agnostics and atheists follow a few.  Why is it important to obey His “least commandments”? Jesus fulfilled the prophecies that had been made about Him, and preserved, for the preceding thousand years.  He, who brought reality to God’s […]
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Letter #20 from a Protestant minister.

One of the oddest letters we’ve received from Pastor Pitstop concerns his soul.  Suddenly, he is very worried about getting into Heaven.  He is questioning his decades as a minister with some real soul-searching.  In the process, Pastor Pitstop has invented the most bizarre theory we have ever heard about how non-Catholics and Protestants may […]
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Some understand and become Catholic. Others do neither.

We are encouraged to believe scientists.  Fears and dangers, no matter how imaginary, help governments seem to be important.  “Scientists have discovered a great danger.   We have to keep our people safe.”  Spokesmen for government agencies make such announcements many times a day. Science that provides evidence, false or not, for the necessary fears and […]
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Letter #18 from a Protestant minister.

We received a letter from Pastor Pitstop.  He has enclosed an email that he received from Minister McMacMack, whose massive mega-church is destroying Pastor Pitstop’s much smaller church.  Now, it appears that their conflict is growing. Dear Catholic Fundamentalism: You know that I don’t like you Catholics very much.  Always going on and on about […]
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Catholic Fundamentalism begins with two principles.

Encyclopedias and libraries are filled with knowledge that increases too rapidly to assimilate.  We swim in a sea of confusing, conflicting theories about everything there is. Theories, from Scientology to agnosticism to Protestantism to Catholicism have been put forward to help us make sense of things. Catholic Fundamentalism begins with two principles.  Principle # 1: […]
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Helping non-Catholics.

Helping non-Catholics.  The classic way: “For thousands of years, prophets were inspired by God to write down specific things about the Messiah.  Some of the 300 separate prophecies about Him predict that He would be born in Bethlehem of a virgin in the House of David.  His birth would be followed by a slaughter of […]
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