The Catholic Geeks

Sometimes, it seems like Catholics forget that while Christ told us that we should not be “of the world,” we still have to live in it.  “I pray not that thou shouldst take them out of the world, but that thou shouldst keep them from evil” (John 17:15).

That’s why articles like this one make me so exceptionally angry.  People who spout this kind of extremism and then wrap it up in phrases like “Traditional Catholicism” are, in my opinion, more of a problem than the Nancy Pelosi brand “catholics” of the world.  They aren’t keeping themselves from evil; they’re retreating from the real world into a mystical Utopia that doesn’t exist, and making the rest of us look completely deranged in the process.

So, for your reading pleasure, I give you another fisk, this time on a blog post pointed out to me by fellow Catholic Geek, Matthew Bowman.  Alas, he couldn’t do his own fisk on the subject; apparently (according to various Facebook commenters), he’s not allowed to have an opinion on the topic because . . . he’s male.

As if that made sense.

But he didn’t ask me to fisk this particular example of hysterical absurdity.  He didn’t have to.

So, from “Traditional Catholic Femininity,” I give you “Stages of a Traditional Catholic Courtship.”

As per the usual fisking procedure, the original text is in italics and my commentary is in bold.

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