Bishop Robert Barron says he hates the tribalism eating Catholic social media, the scapegoating mobs, the little liberal and conservative teams throwing punches at each other online. He has a point. Anyone who has spent ten minutes in Catholic Twitter knows exactly what he means. But the timing of that complaint, arriving after a year in which Barron himself became one of the more polarizing figures in American Catholicism, deserves a second look. Fifteen years ago, then-Fath

Somewhere along the way, America stopped arguing over whether pineapple belongs on pizza and graduated to something far more absurd. Now we're fighting over cookies. Not whether they're soft or crunchy. Not chocolate chip versus oatmeal raisin. Political cookies. Welcome to 2026! The latest confection to spark national outrage comes courtesy of Hive Bakery in Flower Mound, Texas, where owner Haley Popp has once again found herself in the middle of America's never-ending cultu

I was looking for a book and found a newspaper article by R. Daniel Cavazos, editor of The Monitor, called "Starr: diamond in the rough," written sometime around 1994, mas o menos. A Rio Grande City businessman, Lauro Lopez, gets quoted in it, joking that the new Wal-Mart and H-E-B "SOO-PER" centers were coming because of trade with Mexico, not drugs. Decades later, Rio Grande City still has its Walmart and HEB, along with a Marshalls, a Ross, a Chick-fil-A and three differen

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