Reacting to recently enacted LGBT+ inclusion policies of the Boy Scouts of America, Fr. Let’s dig in (while the body’s still fresh).įirst, a little recent history: back in 2013, two months after Catholicism began receiving uncharacteristically positive media coverage (and history) for electing the first Pope from Latin America, the pastor of a conservative parish serving military families in Washington State made a showy gambit to reclaim the Church’s bigoted bona fides. The irony being, of course, that neither the Church nor the mythologized “West” need some outside incursion of “woke pluralistic moralism” or sub-equatorial migration to seal its ignominious fate-it’s doing a bang up job all on its own. I’m loathe to give undue oxygen to the racist, pseudo-literary ramblings of one of white God’s favorite idiots (who earlier brought his aggrieved revival act to the National Conservatism Conference with the more bluntly titled, “ Catholicism and the Necessity of Nationalism ”), but Pinoski’s brand of retrograde cultural incitement is increasingly the cause célèbre not only among rightwing Catholics writ large, but the Catholic hierarchy itself. In a Worst Things column entitled “ Spiritual Death of the West ,” Pinoski laments “the West’s” imagined ideological oppression at the hands of the “non-Western ‘other’” (his actual rancid words), offering dimwitted turds of insight on “multicultural progressivism’s…subjugation and destruction” of what he deems “traditional forms of life.” (Don’t worry, he assures us, none if this is racist: the novel in question merely “emphasizes vulgarity by providing lengthy descriptions of their crudeness, sexual promiscuity, and repellent hygiene.”) This is certainly the case with Catholic “thinker” (I use the term as loosely as possible) Nathan Pinoski, who this month penned over 4,500 words in defense of an ignominious, rightly forgotten French novel about the spine-chilling horrors of welcoming immigrants. (On second thought, maybe it’s better they stay out of it. You’d think the “respect life” Catholic intelli-dense-ia might have something to say about living in a world where we just get to kill people now, but as usual they’re too busy Scooby Doo-ing their acolytes away from the spooky secular world to actually give a shit what’s happening to the people living in it.

Just when I’d been relieved to learn that the violent assault on 16-year-old Ralph Yarl’s life hadn’t resulted in his death (according to his aunt he is currently recovering ), another white man decided to place 30-year-old Jordan Neely in a fatal chokehold for being loud, Black and unhoused on the New York City subway.

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