Catholic American Thinker, for the return to Critical Thinking

Catholic American Thinker
Mission Statement

Vic Biorseth, OWM; https://www.catholicamericanthinker.com

The Catholic American Thinker is, essentially, an attack site. It's existence is in response to the on-going and unrelenting attack of secular culture on the Judeo-Christian foundational ethos that underlies, not only America, but all of Western Culture. The overall emphasis is Catholic because the author is Catholic; the hope is that believing men of Jewish, Catholic and Protestant faith will be moved to join in, contribute to the fight, and perhaps open other WebSites in a similar vein.

The secularist and secularizing cultural targets in the sights of the Catholic American Thinker are not mere straw men; they are quite real. The Call to Holiness is a call to change culture, not surrender to it. Any theology that has to modify itself to suit cultural fashion is irrelevant, and any theology that does not directly engage current culture is dead. Catholic, Protestant and Jewish ministers must, at some point, engage culture; and every bit of culture needs to be engaged, not just some parts of it. Secular culture does not hesitate to challenge religion, and that engagement takes place on a two-way street.

It must be remembered that atheism, no matter how highly visible it makes itself, no matter how loudly it shouts, in truth represents a tiny minority, not only here, but everywhere else on Earth. No tiny minority should ever in good justice be dictating its rules to the majority in any truly representative Democracy.

The Catholic American Thinker examines the Ideologies that sprang from Modernism that initially caused (and continuously exploit) the splitting of philosophy into the two separate and increasingly irreconcilable fields of Material Science and Theological Science. Today, material and natural topics predominate in the public discussion in print and on the airwaves, while topics involving theology - any theology - are on the back burner, or invisible. That's not the way it ought to be in a Western Culture. Our collective ethos, our morality, which springs from our religion, should be driving the public dialogue bus.

Differences between Catholics and Protestants, and differences between Christians and Jews are not trivial and should not be brushed aside, glossed over or not addressed head-on. For a Catholic American Thinker treatment of those differences, visit the ethos page. As you will see, those differences (at least the major ones) are, strictly speaking, theological. They pertain the first few Commandments, summarized into the First Great Commandment, addressing man's relationship with God. Our religion; how we worship; the rules of our faith.

But the last group of Commandments, summarized into the Second Great Commandment address man’s relationship with his fellow man. Our morality; our ethos; our cultural standard. In this area, Jews, Catholics, Protestants and Greek Orthodox do not differ. These are the rules that apply when we step out of our churches and synagogues and into the public square. These rules spell out how we deal with each other, and how we collectively deal with outsiders, or non-Westerners. This is the area in which the Catholic American Thinker serves as a rallying point for Western thinking men of good will.

I submit that arguing with each other about theology, as gentlemen, is a good thing, for those who are comfortable with it. In these arguments, I may be expected to always take the Catholic side. But if anyone attacks a Jew for being a Jew, or any kind of Protestant for being a Protestant, I will stand with the one under attack. The Catholic American Thinker stands with belief, and against unbelief. The atheist, who denies the very concept of sacredness and thus holds nothing whatsoever to be sacred, therefore has no right to even enter into any theological discussion, since he has nothing to offer. Agnosticism, like atheism, does not share our common ethos, and indeed operates in the absence of any guiding ethos, and is therefore randomly oriented, directionless, purposeless, and, really, pointless. Atheists and agnostics are not as predictable and orderly as Christians and Jews because their lives are virtually un-directed; they just drift with the cultural current, and blow with the political wind. They are moved and steered more by cultural trend and fashion and fad and impulse than by any fixed ethos, or the recognition of any eternal truths.

Secularism pro-actively attacks Judeo-Christian belief most successfully by exploiting cultural seams as they expose themselves. Of course, there are the obvious differences between Christians and Jews, and between Catholics and Protestants. There are exploitable seams between the most and the least orthodox Jews; between the most and the least orthodox Catholics; between the various denominations, and even within denominations of Protestantism. Believers are periodically called to remember that these differences are strictly theological and they should have nothing to do with how we collectively get along. Look closely at the one doing the criticizing; how strong is his faith, if he even has one? Remember, the real war here is between belief and unbelief.

Islam is specifically left out of this Western Culture ethos brotherhood because the Koran, the Hadith and the common teaching of Islam is directly at odds with, not only the various and divergent Judeo-Christian theologies, but our common Judeo-Christian ethos, to such a degree that it opposes our ethos, and even seeks our religious, cultural and material (physical) destruction, or subjugation. By the guiding ethos of Islam, intolerance of non-Islamic options is absolute. Complete intolerance of us and our way of life - our free will choices - is what the Moslem brings to the public square. If any ideology is more intolerant than was the Marxism and proactive atheism of Hitler, Stalin and Mao, it is Islam. If anything poses a greater and more immediate danger to Western Civilization than Modernism and Secularism, it is Islam. We believers are called to oppose Islam. The blowing-with-the-wind Atheists, Agnostics and weak-believers, who in the past have said "Better Red Than Dead" may now be expected to say "Better To Be Moslem Than Beheaded." They who are of such pitiful intellect make useless soldiers.

As a religion, Islam is the second largest religion in the world, second only to Roman Catholicism. As an ideology, cultural trend, and military force, the only geo-political forces visible today with enough moral fiber, national will and physical ability to have any hope of successfully opposing Islam are the United States of America and Israel, hopefully with the traditional strong alliances of Britain and Australia. And perhaps some of the Eastern European nations recently freed from the shattered Warsaw Pact and Soviet Union tyrannies. Islam, like all forms of tyranny, simply must be successfully opposed by someone strong enough to do it. And if we believers don't do it, it simply won't get done.

The Catholic American Thinker serves, primarily, as a rallying point for men who seek to fully live the Catholic life, not only talking the Catholic talk, but walking the Catholic walk. Which means becoming more of a thinking Catholic.

A secondary purpose is to prod all American men, of whatever faith, away from the demoralization of Secularism and more toward the ancient Judeo-Christian moral norms born of Western Civilization. Which means a return to critical thinking.

This site opposes all Leftist-Marxist ideological notions involving the end of international borders, the end of national sovereignty and the eventual end of the United States of America in favor of the Utopian ideal of a Global Village, Borderless Society, or one-world governance or authority by any other name, to be done by any Leviathan State entity. We likewise oppose all international cross-border efforts by Islam and/or Islamic groups whose ultimate goal is a one-world government by Islamic law, or Sharia. This site vigorously supports the sanctity of national borders and the continued existence of the United States of America, her Constitution and Constitutional government, and the strengthening and restoration of what's left of Western Culture.

The Catholic American Thinker opposes and directly confronts all facets of the political correctness movement, including notions of feminizing the English language, and tolerance of anything and everything, just for the sake of tolerance. Call this position whatever you will, but do not call it lukewarm. All contentious positions are stated in clear language with no Orwellian Newspeak or any of the weasel-words so typical of both evil deceivers and moral wimps.

My goal in the Catholic American Thinker website is to provoke, motivate and move men to thought and action and conversion. The reason for this goal is my arguable opinion that most, although not all, of the moral problems visible in American culture today were brought about by the actions or inactions of men, and therefore men should be in the lead when corrective action is taken, individually and collectively.

So - let the games begin.

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Catholic American Thinker
Ecclesial Mission Statement

Blessed be God forever, and peace be with you.

Let me begin with two definitions up front:

Orthodox: 1) Correct teaching. 2) Traditional teaching. 3) Universally Accepted teaching.

Heterodox: 1) Opposite of Orthodox.

Why even create the Catholic American Thinker website in the first place? I submit that Catholicism is more than a religion; it is also a culture, a way of life, a way of looking at everything, and a way of being. Different Catholics differ from each other these days almost as much as different religions differ from each other. The reason is that the world we all live in has been at war with general Catholicism for so many generations now that many if not most Catholics no longer live the Catholic life or have the unique Catholic vision or sense of mission. The Catholic American Thinker is my attempt to do something positive about that.

So, what can a website like the Catholic American Thinker do about it? While it appears that the world is winning in this particular culture war, appearances are often deceiving. It has often been the case that, by appearances, the Church was in deep, deep trouble. Yet she always survives, and we have it on the very best authority that even the very gates of Hell will not prevail against her. However comforting that knowledge regarding the Church, in America today, Catholic culture is truly on the ropes. Perhaps our culture is not as important as our faith, but the two things truly feed and strengthen each other. My hope is to strengthen both through the Catholic American Thinker website content.

Catholic American Thinker Vs "Official" Heterodoxy

To begin with, thanks mightily to the miss-teaching of legions of priests and bishops, the once obvious public differences between Catholics and non-Catholics have all but disappeared in America. How many times do you see anyone making the sign of the cross in public these days? How many Catholics do you know who still abstain from meat on Fridays throughout the year? The reason that the Catholic American Thinker lays the lion's share of the blame for much of this condition of Catholic invisibility on priests and bishops is that, obviously, laymen didn't just make these things up on their own. Proper catechesis (teaching) is the domain and responsibility of diocesan bishops and their priests. These are little things, granted; individually they are of little importance. But little things ad up, and some things are not so little.

The Catholic American Thinker seeks to provide aid and comfort to those who seek to actually fully live the Catholic life, but that’s just for openers. We should be less interested in appearances than in reality. I personally know, and perhaps you know too, Catholic men who firmly believe that missing mass on Sunday without a good reason is not a mortal sin “any more.” If you ask them the “since when” question most of them will say since Vatican II, although that is clearly a false assumption, and it may not be recognized as false even when pointed out. They might not believe you. The Catholic American Thinker seeks to do something about that.

If American Catholicism has come to the point where a measurable majority of lay Catholics in a diocese do not "feel," and therefore do not believe

• that practicing artificial contraception is a mortal sin in need of repentance and confession,
• and there are thousands of priests who have no real problem with that situation,
• and this simple fact is clear and unavoidably obvious to every single living bishop,
• and pitifully few if any American bishops see fit to take action on it,

then proper catechesis in America is in an absolute shambles. Proper teaching on faith and morals is the sole responsibility of the bishop of the particular church, which means, the diocese or archdiocese.

A diocesan bishop has only three things to do: he is to teach, to sanctify and to govern. If he can't even properly teach the faith that was handed on to him, well then, what is he going to govern us in? Error? And what, exactly, is he going to sanctify us in? Heresy?

Now, your bishop, like mine, may truthfully claim that he personally never taught any such error, and perhaps that the erroneous teaching (or allowance of spreading error) did not occur on his watch, but on that of his predecessor(s). Which is all well and good. But the pertinent question of the moment is, whose watch is it now, and exactly what is he doing about it? Being a Catholic bishop is not a spectator sport, and neither is being a Catholic priest. The Catholic American Thinker will not let them quietly get away with teaching and/or winking-at and allowing heterodoxy in their particular churches; we will publicize their poor leadership and teaching to the maximum.

It may be a little more severe than most, but in the Catholic American Thinker opinion, any diocesan bishop who stands aside while error is officially taught in his name, by his authority, in his Catholic teaching institutions, or who takes no action to correct clear, obvious and wide-spread error in his church, should either step down or be removed by Rome to allow a better man to take his office and properly fulfill the responsibilities of that office.

The Catholic American Thinker intends to hold American Catholic bishop's feet to the fire. With sites like the Catholic American Thinker as the hammer and our blessed Catechism of the Catholic Church as the anvil, perhaps some of America's bishops will either change for the better, or get the hell out of Dodge.

Catholic American Thinker on Vocations

The worst of it all is how badly vocations have been affected by heterodox official teaching in Catholic teaching institutions. Remember, whatever is taught in any Catholic institution is taught in the bishop's name and by his authority. Teaching watered-down faith and morals as opposed to Catholic orthodoxy removes not only the differences between Catholics and non-Catholics. It even removes the differences between laymen and clerics. Here, too, the Catholic American Thinker will promote tradition and oppose heterodoxy. Catholic teaching in America tends to remove or gloss over the differences between the lay and the cleric, to the detriment of vocations.

If I may make an analogy, consider a United States Marine. It is not easy to become a Marine; we all cannot do it. It is not easy to remain a Marine once one becomes a Marine. It is not easy to retire a Marine; being a Marine is not an easy life.

Now, no United States Marine was ever drafted. You have to want to be a Marine; you have to seek it. So, as a thought experiment, what would happen if the differences between the Marines and the Army were removed forthwith – entry, training, uniforms, everything - and it became just as easy to become and remain a Marine as it was to become and remain a Regular in the Army?

QUESTION, for the young potential enlistee: Why be a Marine?

ANSWER: There is no longer any reason to be a Marine.

The Marines call themselves the “few” and the “proud” for a very good reason: they are different; they are set apart; they hold themselves to a higher standard, and they will not lower the bar. The Marines have never, in all of our history, had a serious or lingering problem with recruitment. Traditionally, many more apply than are needed. I submit for your consideration that if there were no difference between Marines and other forces, the United States Marines would immediately encounter their very first serious and lingering recruitment problem.

Now let us consider the local Catholic Pastor. If he is of the variety semi-common today that always removes the collar as soon as he can, who doesn’t often dress the part, who insists to all around to “just call me Larry” and who encourages all sorts of lay “ministries” (as opposed to administrative functions) then, where’s the difference between him and us? Why should a religious young man seek to become a priest? What’s the difference?

The Catholic American Thinker position is that an ordained priest is forever a priest, different from the rest of us and set apart, not just in this life, but for all eternity.

Consider the decline of the orders of nuns, which if anything is worse than the decline in priests today. In a similar manner, many of the orders have become almost laicized in practice and appearance. They no longer wear the habit, they no longer live in community, they follow no discernable order, they live out in separate apartments or houses of their own, and on and on. Why should a religious young lady want to be one of them? What would be different in her life? You can see the effects right now, clear and measurable. If the average age of the members of an order is in the seventies, and if the youngest member is well into her fifties, obviously that order is cruising right straight into extinction.

But the Catholic American Thinker can see and point out dioceses in America where there are no shortages of priests, and orders of nuns that are strong, vibrant and growing. What’s the difference? In a word:

For graphic examples and eye-witness accounts of such teachings from an official Catholic teaching institution in the archdiocese of Cincinnati, see the following links.

1. For Athenaeum of Ohio LPMP education in pure Catholic dissent, a de-emphasis of the Eucharist, uncritical embracing of the historical critical method, and groundwork for a bright future including Catholic priestesses, visit the Cafeteria Catholic 1 page.
2. For the teaching of a clear dissident agenda along with fuzzy and indefinite Catholic doctrine, visit the Cafeteria Catholic 2 page.
3. For advanced Catholic dissent, official pro-sodomy teaching and ridiculous Scripture interpretation, visit the Cafeteria Catholic 3 page.
4. For Cincinnati-style moral theology, which taught that it's "up to us" to determine what's right and wrong, that Catholic doctrine changes all the time, and that only twice in all of history did any Pope teach anything infallibly, visit the Cafeteria Catholic 4 page.
5. For the quite official teaching that Christ might not have rose again, but He teaches a valuable lesson anyway, visit the Cafeteria Catholic 5 page.

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Catholic American Thinker
Temporal Mission Statement

So that should pretty well cover the territory of the Catholic American Thinker, right? Wrong. The problems with proper Church teaching in America are just the beginning of the problems for the American Catholic.

Catholic American Thinker on American Culture

Problems within the Catholic fold cannot really compare with the problems that originate from without. The Catholic American Thinker has much to address in alternate ethos' promoted as superior by the world. Academia has been greatly affected by the adherents to the religion of Scientism who dogmatically renounce all non-material explanations for anything and everything. Including matter. The Naturalist believes that there is and must be a Natural explanation for all phenomena; the Materialist believes that there is and must be a Materialist explanation for all phenomena. If the explanation doesn’t exist yet, it just hasn’t been discovered yet; that’s the cover story. These adherents have greatly affected the public and even legal definition of “who’s a scientist” to such a degree that alternative voices are religiously censored on campus and in the public square.

Catholic American Thinker Vs. Scientism

Yet, such seemingly simple materialistic questions remain, such as, what is matter? I’m not asking about a certain kind of matter, or about where it fits in the periodic table; I already know that stuff, or I know where to look it up. What I’m asking is, what is matter, where did it come from, and what’s it doing here? Why is there stuff that exists instead of nothing, when and where did it all begin existing, and exactly how? The disciples of Scientism, whom I affectionately refer to elsewhere herein as TTRSTF⁴ not only cannot answer these simple, very natural, very material questions, but they aren’t even smart enough to ask them in the first place.

It goes on and on; this is just the beginning. You could ask a Materialist about life, for instance. What, exactly, is it? How did it begin? How does something that is not alive begin to live? The devout Materialist and Naturalist will answer that these things are "well known" for at least a century now, and so the questions no longer need to be asked. (First you got your basic, fundamental, primordial ooze, see, and then . . . )

DOUBLE QUESTION: Where is the experiment, observation or empirical evidence showing how matter came into being out of nothing, or how something that was not alive ever began to live?

ANSWER: In all the universe, there isn't any.

A mystery is something about which we may only know part, not all. Unlike the Catholic, the Materialist cannot or will not bow before any mystery; the very notion of mystery is unacceptable. Perhaps the Catholic American Thinker can nudge him a little in the right direction.

It should here be pointed out that we have now had multiple generations of university professors that have had critical thinking trained out of them in American colleges and universities. They have been taught what to think rather than how to think. They are largely incapable of doing good critical thinking. They question nothing, particularly from within any of their own heavy Scientistic dogmas. Whatever common sense they entered academia with has been systematically removed by the education system. These are our teachers. Since the Catholic American Thinker champions the return to healthy skepticism, sound argument and critical thinking, it finds itself at odds with general academia today.

Catholic American Thinker and Education

There will probably be a page dedicated solely to education coming to the Catholic American Thinker. With the decline and slow death of the religious orders, both active and contemplative, seemingly keeping pace with the advances of secularism (which I must point out is proactive, aggressive and definitely not neutral) we see two clearly downward trends: Morality, and Education. Once upon a time in America, lots of hospitals were loaded with caregivers who were nuns and monks who took no interest in material rewards. And similarly, once upon a time in America, classrooms were loaded with nuns and monks who took no interest in material rewards. Those days are gone, perhaps never to return. Today our national education system is cranking out ridilin-dependant, tattooed, body-pierced and sound-bite educated little dunces who, collectively, put America in 28th place among the nations with education systems. That means 27 nations have test-ably better educated children than we have here in America. And, we spend far more per capita on education than any of them.

Proving that education quality is not a problem you can solve by throwing money on it. We have a public school system that ranges, in most quarters, between mediocrity and a flat-out national disgrace. Shining examples of educational excellence in America exist, but are all too rare, and obviously not enough to make up for the huge international difference. We have lots of students who cannot read at an appropriate level, who cannot properly sound-out words, who do not know their multiplication tables, who cannot properly work out a long-division, who cannot even point out the Pacific ocean on a map of North America, but who know and can demonstrate how to put a condom on a cucumber. Which, at least at the moment, is not an appropriate skill to put on one's resume, and so we need to wonder why they were so thoroughly taught that one particular skill. Why, exactly, are the tax dollars of devout Christians and Jews given by our theoretically representative government to public schools, in order for them to teach other people's children the mechanics of safe fornication, protected sodomy, and responsible promiscuity? Particularly when these same children are so clearly, obviously and test-ably ignorant in terms of classical education.

At the moment, even considering the clear decline of the last, roughly half-century, Catholic schools still out-perform public schools. But they remain in decline in numbers and thus availability, even where they are not in academic decline. The up and coming superior educational system of the future involves home schooling, and the most current test results, stunning all detractors, show it to be out performing everything else in America at present. I think it's the beginning of a tidal wave. Take a look at Teaching At Home (Opens in a New Window) - A good source of homeschool teaching articles, teaching at home resources, and educational curriculum information. Follow the link; it shows that we ordinary people can still do important things at the grass-root level in this country. If you can't do this, someone in your neighborhood can. Get your kids into a home-schooling program, if not in your house, then in your neighbor's house, and gain some very serious input into how and in what your children will be educated. Only you can stress the importance of critical thinking, so that your children will be taught how to think, rather than what to think. Ranked by shear academic excellence today, home schooling is first, Catholic schools are second and public schools are dead last. You owe it to your children to look into this very carefully.

Catholic American Thinker and Journalism

Journalism has similarly been contaminated by the same academic system. The Catholic American Thinker gives journalism special attention because it has such dramatic affects on the public at large, and on elections, among other things. Main stream media journalists combined with show biz personalities, academics, Liberal politicians and practically a whole political party have morphed into something I call elsewhere herein the SLIMC¹ . It has become their job and their mission to completely secularize – i.e., religiously cleanse – the American public square. Most usually the only religion they seek to cleanse is that of the majority, Christianity, and particularly within Christianity, Catholicism.

But that’s just for openers. The SLIMC¹ is also committed to opposing Capitalism, free markets and even representative government, although they won't clearly admit to it, in favor of anything that might oppose Capitalism, including even the most totalitarian versions of Socialism that ever existed. There will be more on this later, but note that variants of Socialism, unlike Capitalism, involve not only economic systems, but social systems. A Socialist society is Socialistically governed, not representatively governed. In the "ideal" Socialism, the government model and the economic model are one and the same, and inseparable.

The Theological and Political Arguments and Positions

We have seen that the current Western Culture theological argument is between the Theists, or believers, with their overwhelmingly Judeo-Christian ethos, and the various atheists and agnostics, with their overwhelmingly obvious ethos of BMDFP¹⁰ , Darwinists, Marxists and Freudianists. The front-line shock-troops attacking Western Culture from the atheist side are the Secularists, who openly attack all public and even private religious expression that is Christian in general, and Catholic in particular.

We have seen that the current Western Culture political argument is between the Left, Liberal, Socialistic position and the Right, Conservative, Capitalistic, Democratic position. Legion are they who have never studied and do not understand the vast differences between these positions. Let's refresh, with some brief, nut-shell explanations. Compare the brief overview given at the Pure Democracy Definition page to the brief overview at the Pure Socialism Definition page. The differences are stark. Some will argue that a compromise position is possible. The Catholic American Thinker agrees with thinkers like Hayek, Mises and others who hold that such a compromise is impossible, without leading inevitably to complete Socialism. A little social planning and control must eventually lead to a lot, because it causes failure of other parts of the system. There are some things that cannot be compromised.

For instance, what would a compromise with an objective reality look like? Hint: something less than an objective reality.

Current Leftist-Marxist thinking, which now dominates in America's Democratic Party, has morphed into something that actually threatens the continued national existence of America itself. Miss-begotten partially from a misplaced sense of revulsion for Nationalism mistaken for Nazi-Fascism today's Leftists dream of and work toward an end to borders, nations and sovereignty, and the achievement of a Utopian, perfect, Global Village, or World-State. Which would mean, of course, an end to Democracy, our Republic, our Constitution and all that goes with it. This is the new Communism, descended from Marxism.

Yes, the Left really is that dumb. We now have a major political Party dedicated to our national end. No more United States Of America, as a political goal.

Precisely at this historic moment, when a resurgent Islam threatens the world with it's insidious international intrigues, incursions, terrorism and plots toward a world dominated by Islamic Law, we have Limousine Liberals, Hollywood Celebrocrats, Rock Stars, the whole SLIMC¹ , most of the Democratic Party, some Republicans and a thundering herd of other silly twits singing the praises of and seeking to advance the Leftist Utopian Ideal of the Global Village and the end of all national sovereignty, local authority and the Rule of Subsidiarity.

While most of these people are just basically ignorant - the term silly twit really does apply - there are those among them who are not so ignorant. When all political power is centralized enough for it to happen, power will be forcibly seized by the one ruthless enough to seize it, whether he be Islamic or otherwise. The brutal and ruthless Stalins and Hitlers of our future work toward, watch and quietly await their opportunities.

Now, there is the newly recognized but long existing third threat to Western Culture, and it is a threat to all existing non-Islamic human cultures, and a threat that is both theological and political, and the Catholic American Thinker addresses it head-on. I speak, of course, of the newly resurgent militant Islam, which openly seeks and continuously works toward eventual world domination by force. If an overwhelming majority of Moslems do not participate in random murder and terror perpetrated among us infidels, they still overwhelmingly support the activity of the terrorists. Which is why they celebrate and dance in the streets when we die and suffer.

The Catholic American Thinker has much more to say on these topics, in many other pages.

Catholic American Thinker Rules Of Engagement

Within the Catholic American Thinker website will be found everything that touches the Catholic in life; economics, politics, alternatives to the Catholic ethos, explorations of systems deemed "superior" to Western civilization, history, culture, tradition, mores and more. Apologetics is only a part of it. Like general Patton, the Catholic American Thinker prefers attack to defense. An ancient, fundamental rule of war that has been in play for thousands of years says that he who defends may only survive, but he who attacks may win. Many are they who openly and publicly attack Judeo-Christian morality in general and Catholicism in particular. Since my own ethos is so regularly and consistently under attack by others, I feel absolutely no compunction or even hesitation regarding direct frontal assault on any opposing ethos.

Anyone who attacks Western Culture or Judeo-Christian moral norms is subject to the heated scrutiny of the Catholic American Thinker. If you challenge my ethos, I'm coming after yours. Fair enough?

(My personal ethos is laid out in crystal clear language, and in one short paragraph, in the Catholic Culture webpage.)

So, here, I think, I have laid the groundwork for the Catholic American Thinker website. I intend it to be a weapon with which to do battle with the people and the ideas that stand opposed to Catholic faith, morals, culture, tradition, life, critical thinking, and way of being.

There are a whole lot of different and divergent essays coming to the Catholic American Thinker; some of them will get their own permanent web-page and navigation-bar-button, and some of them will just be sort of editorials appearing in the strategic center web-log, or "Blog," to use the current terminology. If you want to argue about anything, go to the Publish Your Thoughts page, enter your thoughts, and lets get it on. I love a good argument. Or, use the link if you just want to publish your thoughts, whatever they are, whether pro or con.

I hope you enjoy the Catholic American Thinker; and I pray that you may please God and live forever.

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Sarcastic Acronym Hover-Link Footnotes: For the convenience of those readers using devices that lack a mouse, these footnotes are provided for all webpages, in case any webpage contains any hover-links. (If you don't have a mouse, you can't "hover" it over a link without clicking just to see the simple acronym interpretation. Click any footnote link to see the acronym and a detailed explanation; "Hover" the mouse over it just to see the simple interpretation.)

SLIMC¹ Secularist Liberal Intellectual Media Complex
GESGOEAEOT² Gradually, Ever So Gradually, Over Eons And Eons Of Time
PEWAG³ Punctuated Equilibrium's Wild-Assed Guess
TTRSTF⁴ Them There Real Scientifical-Type Fellers
TTRSPTF⁵ Them There Real Smart Perfesser-Type Fellers
TTRSJTF⁶ Them There Real Smart Journalistical-Type Fellers
SNRTACBT⁷ Surely No Right Thinking Adult Could Believe Today
STNSEACPB⁸ Surely Today No Serious Educated Adult Could Possibly Believe
WDN⁹ We Don't Know
BMDFP¹⁰ Baboons, Mongrel Dogs, Filthy Pigs and ...
HBAACOTE¹¹ Human Beings Are A Cancer On The Earth
ACLU¹² Anti-Christian Litigation Union
FLORMPORIF¹³ Flagrant Liar, Or, Mindless Parrot, Or, Innocent Fool
MEJTML¹⁴ Marxist Ends-Justify-The-Means Liar
IEJTML¹⁵ Islamic Ends-Ends-Justify-The-Means Liar
MPAV¹⁶ Marxist Principles And Values
WBESSWG¹⁷ Wise, Benign, Elite, Super-Scientific World Governance
TRMITM¹⁸ The Reason Man's In This Mess
IYI¹⁹ Intellectual Yet Idiotic
TTRSCBTF²⁰ Them There Real Smart Catholic Bishop Type Fellers
IACMPVND²¹ Illegal-Alien-Criminal Marxocrat-Party-Voting Nation-Destroyers
PEJTML²² Palestinian Ends-Justify-The-Means Liar
PSYOP²³ "Psychological Operation" Mind Trick
CDC²⁴ Covid Developmentally Challenged
LGBTQ+ Every Letter Represents A Serious Psychotic sexual Identity Disorder
HEJTML²⁶ Hedonist Ends-Justify-The-Means Liar
SEJTML²⁷ Scientistic Ends-Justify-The-Means Liar

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Date: Thu Jul 22 18:32:19 2010
From: Peter Yzaguirre
Email: petrus.51051@gmail.com
Location: St. Marys, KS
Comment:

Vic, do you have annulment figures for 1990-2009? Great site. Thanks. Peter

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Date: Fri Jul 23 16:56:22 2010
From: Vic Biorseth
Comment:

Peter:

No; when I Google “annulment rate figures 1990 -2009” I get some 281,000 hits, and the first hundred or so do not seem to give me a very precise cut at it.

It does tell me that Maine has such a high rate that it got the unfavorable attention of the Vatican, and that the US at some point hit a rate of 60% of all annulments world-wide, with only 6% of the world’s Catholics, and other neat factoids like that.

Most of the internet search-engine results are somewhat questionable; it cannot replace old fashioned scholarly research, which I am not too good at these days.

For numbers up until 1990, see the Catholic Marriage Annulment page.

Regards,

Vic

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Date:   Fri Jul 04 2014
From:  Vic Biorseth
Comment:  

Changes pursuant to changing the website URL and name from 
Thinking Catholic Strategic Center to
Catholic American Thinker.

Pulled the trigger on the 301 MOVE IT option June 1, 2014. Working my way through all the webpages.  . 

Regards,

Vic

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Date:  Sun Nov 13 10:31:54 2016
From:  John
Email:   johnjanney@yahoo.com
Location:  East Wenatchee, WA USA
Comment: 

I stumbled across your website and am very grateful for the wealth of information. Did you discontinue it? For some reason, the last posts I'm seeing are from 2013. God bless.

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Date:  Sun Nov 13 2016
From:  Vic Biorseth
Comment:  

John:

You probably are looking at Thinking-Catholic-Strategic-Center.com webpages.  It now exists and is quite active as CatholicAmericanThinker.com.  Only the name has changed; same old site.  The old one is left out there just to link to the new one.  Will send an email, because you might not see this update if you're looking at page under the old name. 

Regards,

Vic

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