The Practical Parson

 This Past week, a member of the Kansas City Chiefs' (American football) team was invited to give a commencement speech at Benedictine College in Kansas.  Speaking to fellow Roman Catholics in the graduating class and gathered, he addressed what he saw as problems with society today; which reflect his beliefs and the values which the Roman church has always held.   While at any point in history prior to 2008 this may have gone unheralded and of no great importance; suddenly to the leftist agitators in the United States, Harrison Butker has become the icon of everything wrong with the Christian faith and conservative values, almost overnight.  The most disheartening part of the entire ongoing saga is not so much the reaction to anything the man actually SAID in his speech; but that the entire "progressive" world is loosing its collective mind over what media outlets have proclaimed he MEANT by what he said.   In short, those screaming "racist, misogynis...

 Today as many 'woke' college students across the liberal university system in this country staged a walkout to demand a ceasefire from Israel; we saw an episode which could have been torn from the pages of Anne Frank's own diary, or indeed from any number of holocaust-based films.  At Cooper Union College in NY,  While the woke elitist mob "protested", Several Jewish students were rushed into the school library and locked inside for their own safety.  Why you might ask?  *Cue the footage of the liberal Nazis attempting to break into the library to get the Jews, while chanting that popular slogan "Free Palestine!"   Because obviously in their twisted minds, killing all Jews is the way to prevent genocide, yes?  This blatant act of antisemitism and terrorism is yet another mark against the party of alleged "love and understanding".   Anyone who supports this act or any of the other hundreds of assaults being committed against Jews across ...