Charity For The Bishop

The more I interact with bishops and clergy, the more sympathy I have for them as men. I know, that certainly doesn't come out on this blog, but maybe it will in the future, starting now.

If you haven't read Helen Andrews' The Great Feminization, it is one of the greatest essays of 2025, quite possibly the best. It deals with the pathological femininity that has taken over the West. Here are just a few snippets from it. I can't recommend it highly enough. Read the whole thing.

This cancellation (of Larry Summers at Harvard) was feminine, the essay argued, because all cancellations are feminine. Cancel culture is simply what women do whenever there are enough of them in a given organization or field. That is the Great Feminization thesis, which the same author later elaborated upon at book length: Everything you think of as “wokeness” is simply an epiphenomenon of demographic feminization.

The explanatory power of this simple thesis was incredible. It really did unlock the secrets of the era we are living in. Wokeness is not a new ideology, an outgrowth of Marxism, or a result of post-Obama disillusionment. It is simply feminine patterns of behavior applied to institutions where women were few in number until recently...

Everything you think of as wokeness involves prioritizing the feminine over the masculine: empathy over rationality, safety over risk, cohesion over competition...

Female group dynamics favor consensus and cooperation. Men order each other around, but women can only suggest and persuade. Any criticism or negative sentiment, if it absolutely must be expressed, needs to be buried in layers of compliments. The outcome of a discussion is less important than the fact that a discussion was held and everyone participated in it.

Emphasis mine. That last sentence perfectly encapsulates synodality within the Church. Helen's essay is a perfect summary of the modern Church itself. I don't have time to find it now, but there is a direct quote, repeated in our synod meetings, that says almost that same bolded sentence, verbatim. The conversation is the goal.

It has finally dawned on me that our Church leaders and the AWFLs that populate our diocesan and parish staffs are completely impervious to data that contradicts their devouring mother tendencies. For them, every problem is a baby and every solution is cuddling and nothing can move them off of top dead center. Nothing.

Tens of thousands of white, working class, British girls were groomed and gang raped by gangs of Pakistani Muslims. Nope, doesn't matter. Don't judge. Be nice.

Thousands of young women were seduced into transgenderism resulting in bodily mutilation and irreversible, hormonal poisoning. Affirm them. God loves people of all kinds.

A hundred thousand or more Nigerian Christians have been killed by Muslim paramilitaries over the past few years. Pray for peace.

I wish I could find it now, but Rod Dreher tweeted once that if the gang rapes in England weren't enough to light a fire under the church and drive it to militancy in defense of its daughters, then nothing would.

Nothing will. Not with the bishops, priests and AWFLs who infest the management teams. It's not that they're evil or trying to do bad things, it's that they are operating under rigid, indestructible information filters that don't allow data like what I listed above to penetrate their world view.

There's got to be another angle to pursue, one which I haven't had time to suss out yet. In the meantime, simply pointing out their inability to cope with current events is a waste of time. As long as we are dominated by The Great Feminization, the Church will continue to be totally incapable of a proper response.

Even when they know this happened, they can't interpret it properly.

Sunshine Dog

I've been deep in other projects which I will share later. I didn't want the blog to flicker and go out entirely, so here's a photo of Leah, our sunshine dog. She's an old lady now and things hurt that she cannot tells us. She loves the sunshine, even on the hottest of San Diego days.

There's not much in life sweeter to me than to see her basking in the sun, warming her old bones.

Full Stack Somalis

By now, news of the Somali piracy in Minnesota has spread far and wide.

Our investigation shows what happens when a tribal mindset meets a bleeding-heart bureaucracy, when imported clan loyalties collide with a political class too timid to offend, and when accusations of racism are cynically deployed to shield criminal behavior. The predictable result is graft, with taxpayers left to foot the bill.

If you were to design a welfare program to facilitate fraud, it would probably look a lot like Minnesota’s Medicaid Housing Stabilization Services program. The HSS program, the first of its kind in the country, was launched with a noble goal: to help seniors, addicts, the disabled, and the mentally ill secure housing. It was designed with “low barriers to entry” and “minimal requirements for reimbursement.” Nonetheless, before the program went live in 2020, officials pegged its annual estimated price tag at $2.6 million.

Costs quickly spiraled out of control. In 2021, the program paid out more than $21 million in claims. In the following years, annual costs shot up to $42 million, then $74 million, then $104 million. During the first six months of 2025, payouts totaled $61 million.

Essentially, once the Somalis and their progressive allies had assembled a full stack from political leaders at the top to doctors, clinics and "patients" at the bottom, they went full-throttle and looted the system. Because they had participants at every level, catching and punishing them was near impossible and they were able to run this racket and others like it for years. We're talking 9-figure sums in total and possibly more.

Lesson Learned: If your "migrants" have concentric circles of loyalty like clan, religion, nation of origin and you, the American chump, are on the outside of those rings, you're going to get taken to the cleaners. Which the Americans in Minnesota were, on an industrial scale.

I worked with ChatGPT and we got this map of the Somali stack.

Not all of the slots were occupied by Somalis such as the law enforcement managers in the Community Political Shield section. Some of those slots were dutifully filled by social justice Americans like Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey. He recently won re-election, running against a Somali communist. Dig how Frey gave part of his acceptance speech in Somali.

Mayor Jacob Frey, as he won reelection, spoke almost a minute in Somali then said Minneapolis belongs to Somalia:

“This is a moment for unity where the entire Somali community can come together and say, ‘This is our people, this is our city, we are united behind each other.’”… pic.twitter.com/QiPes8Xonc

— Paul A. Szypula 🇺🇸 (@Bubblebathgirl) November 7, 2025

Well, OK then.

If the Somalis' loyalty is indeed those concentric circles, then we're going to have to fight it in the schools by vigorously attacking those concepts.

Oh, wait, never mind. Our schools have been completely captured by the social justice left. Never mind.

That leaves us with ... what? And it's not just Minneapolis, it's Dearborn, MI which is now majority-Muslim. God only knows what kinds of criminal looting is going to happen in NYC now.

The West in general, America in particular and the Catholic Church as well are all utterly incapable of dealing with this threat right now. We can't even name it because to do so would be judgmental.

This isn't going to end well anywhere.