Outside The Asylum

African Bishops hold that divorce and remarriage could be harmful to the church's ability to evangelize to polygamous cultures. The economy of salvation also takes some strange turns. I was recently banned from posting in certain Jesuit blogs as well because of my doubt that certain Jesuits actually still cared about the teachings of the Church. Apparently, Truth is no longer economical either.

It's been a while since I posted. To be honest, I feel very beat up by the past week in the culture wars. It is time to concede the secular culture. Catholicism can't affect it anymore. The democracy has spoken- subjectivity has spoken and won out over objective truth. Which is why I'm at a very curious point in my reading of Papal Economics . I'm in the middle of a chapter discussing Sollicitudo Rei Socialis , the social concern of the church, in which Pope John Paul II took the opportunity of the 20th anniversary of Pope Paul VI's Populorum Progresso to strongly criticize the very form of central planning recommended in the previous document. The central planning of progressive socialists, it is argued, is inherently destructive of the natural subjectivity of the actors in the marketplace- by replacing organic consumer action with central planning based on objectivity instead. I for one find it a bit strange that the very democracy I'm struggling to und...

Does anybody have a pre-paid cell phone and a square account to donate to this entrapreneur?

But dealing with an odd economic situation of my own. When I filed my taxes last week, they were rejected by the IRS- because apparently, my wife had already filed her taxes. This was news to her, as we had been waiting on Schedule K forms (death in the family and an estate to deal with) to be able to file at all. I'm working my way through the fun "this might be identity theft" process with the IRS, and that is eating up all my spare reading time.

The real and rather interesting non-religious argument against contraception: Oddly enough, Pope Paul VI, author of Populorum Progresso predicted exactly this in Humanae Vitae . Going back to Papal Economics , Fr. Zieba claims that Pope Paul VI was disconnected from reality on economics in his encyclicals. I put forth that he was in fact *very* attached to the reality of the law of supply and demand- and could see coming that human beings were losing out to the impersonal equation dictating price- is exactly why Populum Progresso looked to the State for some sort of balance in enforcement of morality, and in Humanae Vitae, called for an end to contraception to reset the high price of sex.

But I guess this is as economic related as it is socially conservative. A co-ed blogs about the crappiness of her latest hookup , which apparently cost ~$276 for what was supposed to be a OKCupid internet date. BTW, I'd assume artisanal ginger ale, is the type of thing you might find at a farmer's market in New York City. Just guessing though. I am impressed by how various companies profited from this young woman's foray into the Valley of the Culture of Death though. I thought Planned Parenthood did STD testing and Plan B for free.

You can consider this a declaration that this blog will now be switching again from social conservativism to Papal Economics. Due to an article I read today , and a promise elsewhere to read Papal Economics , I'm kicking off with this post. But despite my own history of reading Papal Catholic Social Teaching encyclicals, I'd like to start with something a bit more basic in light of current debate on the minimum wage: Matthew 20:1-16 “1 For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire workers for his vineyard. 2 He agreed to pay them a denarius[a] for the day and sent them into his vineyard. 3 “About nine in the morning he went out and saw others standing in the marketplace doing nothing. 4 He told them, ‘You also go and work in my vineyard, and I will pay you whatever is right.’ 5 So they went. “He went out again about noon and about three in the afternoon and did the same thing. 6 About five in the afternoon he went out and found st...

to deny the existence of God is amazing to me. A mathematician sees proof of God, but decides that the universe is a simulation created by a very advanced programmer. Gee, I'd call that God, wouldn't you?

Let's see if I've got this straight: The government that we don't trust to spend our taxes wisely, who can't be trusted to keep a prisoner safe and locked away from society due to some court decisions against cruel and unusual punishment, is the same government you trust not to execute you when it becomes convenient for them?

War is Hell, they keep telling us. And demons from hell use war . I have to wonder if I would have fallen into sexual and gluttonous sin as easily, had my condition been understood at a younger age. As it was, I was in my mid 20s by the time Asperger's was included in the ICD-10 coding which, after 20 years of comments, is becoming mandatory in the United States for insurance coding October 1, 2014 , in the CM and PCS revisions. It was first included in the DSM-IV in 1994- I was already 23. I wasn't diagnosed until I was 30, and I've spent the last 10 years of my life analyzing myself and dealing with the effects. I have a ways to go, especially in the area of gluttony- I'm currently more than 120 lbs overweight. Many of the material effects of what some in an earlier age would have termed a Spiritual Truth about me, are hard to deal with- it is as if there is a portion of my brain I can't control; and for many years, refusing to acknowledge this truth did gr...

We have been demonically ignorant of what goes on in the womb for quite some time as human beings. And we have done great harm because of it.

Could ordinary, everyday agnosticism be a sign of demonic posession? It would explain a lot to me. It would explain why people who plead for tolerance for their own sins, are so incredibly intolerant of the sins of others. It would explain the spread of divorce and abortion following the invention of easy contraception. It would explain why men concerned only with business abandon family and friendship in pursuit of profit. And it would explain, once and for all- why I can't understand.

A fanfic- a "Previously unknown" Letter from Screwtape to Wormwood on how to tempt mothers

Only gays are allowed to be angry. Your church is vandalized and your parishoners physically threatened and your priests attacked by naked femen for not enthusiastically embracing gay marriage? Forget it, it is only what you deserve.

And I raise you a John Paul The Great.

And 100% of the time, finds out that the human race should stop being heterosexual. And for some reason, nobody seems to think there's anything wrong with that picture.

I'm not sure why he calls this Wookie Base, but that's what he calls it.