by Micah Murphy | Sep 2, 2021 | Archive, Pontifications (Blog)
The other day, I published Purchasing the Seal: Confirmation and the Sin of Simony. I received a number of responses, mostly “you tell ‘em!” in one way or another, but some were more skeptical. So consider this post 1.5 in my sacramental catechesis reform series,...
by Micah Murphy | Aug 31, 2021 | Pontifications (Blog)
This is the first post in a four-part series on a broad-reaching problem in modern catechesis. When Simon saw that the Spirit was conferred by the laying on of the apostles’ hands, he offered them money and said, “Give me this power too, so that anyone upon whom I lay...
by Micah Murphy | Aug 12, 2021 | Pontifications (Blog)
Now that the first episode of the much anticipated What If? has dropped on Disney+, it seems the Marvel multiverse is full steam ahead with a question that’s sure to please the moderns and tick off many of the trads, both in Marvel circles and Catholic ones: what if...
by Micah Murphy | Jul 27, 2021 | Pontifications (Blog)
It’s been a few months since TGC’s redesign and I want to give a shout-out to my Superfans. Some of you are newcomers, others have been with me since 2015, when I first started drawing some horrible scribbles in ink. TGC has grown consistently but slowly, even for a...
by Micah Murphy | Jul 21, 2021 | Pontifications (Blog)
“We are told to hide our blemishes because bad news doesn’t evangelize. However, hiding blemishes isn’t evangelization, it’s marketing.”Eric Sammons, Is the Catholic Church a House of Cards? Eric Sammons and I don’t agree on everything, but this we...
by Micah Murphy | Jul 16, 2021 | Pontifications (Blog)
Traddeus is having a bad one. As many of you have probably heard, Pope Francis today released a motu proprio severely limiting the celebration of the Extraordinary Form of the Mass, who may celebrate it and where it may be celebrated. This was done for the stated goal...
