The politically incorrect guide to Catholicism

The politically incorrect guide to Catholicism

John Zmirak

Book - 2016

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Subjects
Catholic Church > Controversial literature.
Catholic Church > Doctrines.
Catholic Church > History.
Published
Washington DC : Regnery Publishing, a division of Salem Media Group [2016]
Language
English
Main Author
John Zmirak (author)
Physical Description
370 pages ; 23 cm
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN
9781621575863
  • Chapter 1. The Church: What It Says about Itself, the World, and What Will Happen to You When You Die
  • Freak of Nature or Piece of Supernature?
  • It Started with Sin
  • Remnant of Israel, People of God
  • The Mystical Body of Christ
  • A Conversation You're Not Supposed to Have: Why Should We Believe Any of This Stuff?
  • Chapter 2. The Pope, the Other Bishops, and When and Why Catholics Have to Believe What They Say-and When and Why We Don't
  • Why Popes? Because the Buck Has to Stop Somewhere
  • The Magisteriuin: A Backstop against Creeping Unitarianism
  • The Law Written on the Human Heart
  • There Is No "Catholic" Ideology That We Have to Believe In
  • Does God Pick the Popes and Put Words in Their Mouths?
  • Cafeteria Catholics...and Feeding Tube Catholics
  • A Conversation You're Not Supposed to Have: The Pope Is Not an Oracle
  • Chapter 3. One, Holy, Catholic, and Thoroughly Splintered Church
  • Vatican II: Pope John XXIII's Fragmentation Bomb
  • The "Spirit of Vatican II" vs. the Texts of the Council
  • Chapter 4. How Birth Control Tore the Church Apart
  • The Church and the Pill
  • Chapter 5. Progressive Catholics and Their Permanent Revolution
  • Everybody's a (Biblical) Critic!
  • Camel Finding It Really Difficult to Get through the Eye of That Needle
  • The Priest (and Nun, and Lay Catholic) Shortage
  • Progressive Politics as a Substitute Religion
  • Chapter 6. They Kept the Faith: The "Orthodox" and Traditionalist Response to Post-Vatican II Chaos and Dissent
  • The Catholic Folk Resistance: The "Orthodox Catholic" Subculture
  • Tradition, Tradition!
  • How the Catholic Church Became a Subculture
  • The Rest of Us
  • Chapter 7. The Church and the Free Market
  • Catholicism or Socialism: Pick One
  • Money Is Not the Root of All Evil
  • Economics for Catholics Who Are Bad at Math
  • The Just Price Is the Market Price-as Thomas Aquinas Taught
  • Subsidiarity: The Catholic Church's Tea Party Principle
  • Solidarity: More than an Anti-Communist Labor Union
  • Solidarity Perverted
  • But What about Dorothy Day?
  • "God Bless Castro"
  • Chapter 8. Amnesty Equals Abortion
  • The Church's Teaching, Distorted by Our Shepherds
  • What the Church Actually Teaches on Immigration
  • "To the Extent They Are Able"
  • "Immigrants Are Obliged to Respect with Gratitude the Material and Spiritual Heritage of the Country That Receives Them"
  • "To Obey Its Laws and to Assist in Carrying Civic Burdens"
  • Mass Immigration as a Mode of Conquest and Plunder
  • Visible and Invisible
  • Cash Cows and Canon Fodder
  • Chapter 9. Is the Catholic Church a Global Gun-Free Zone?
  • Don't Try to Compete with Jesus
  • Gun Rights Are Human Rights
  • Eternal Vigilance Is the Price of Liberty
  • The Death Penalty: Confusing Mercy with Mushiness
  • Why Some Christians Oppose the Death Penalty-but Shouldn't
  • The God of the Happy Moments
  • St. John Paul II on Capital Punishment
  • The Church's Timeless Teaching on Self-Defense Assailed by Peaceniks at the Vatican
  • But What about the Crusades?
  • A Conversation You're Not Supposed to Have: Why Not Use Violence against Abortionists?
  • Chapter 10. Is the Church Anti-Science?
  • Did the Church Quash Education, Scientific Research, and Technological Development?
  • Galileo: Self-Aggrandizing Jackass
  • Will the Vatican Start an Infallible Weather Channel?
  • The Climate Changes-That's One of the Things It Does
  • Limiting Carbon Emissions: A Preferential Option for the Rich?
  • The Real Threat to Science Is Not the Catholic Church, but a Competing Religion: Scientism
  • Chapter 11. Sex, Sanity, and the Catholic Church
  • Abortion: The American Gulag, Holocaust, and Ukrainian Famine All Rolled Up in One
  • Replacing the Sexual Gold Standard with Monopoly Money
  • The Least Binding Contract You'll Ever Sign-How Marriage Became Much Less Sacred (and Eternal) than Student Loans
  • The Catholic Church's Alternative to the Chaos: Same as It Ever Was
  • Chapter 12. Temptations and Opportunities for the Church
  • Putative Pro-Lifers and Verbal Pacifism
  • "Celibate" Gay Catholic Wedding Ceremonies, in Church?
  • The "Benedict Option": Hiding Our Light under a Bushel in the Vain Hope the World Will Leave Us Alone
  • When Christians Give Up on Freedom
  • The Stench of Corruption: Child Abuse
  • Signs of Hope and Opportunity for Catholics
  • Core Principles We Can Cling To
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Index

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