A. MONTES POLITICAL PAPIST COLUMNIST For several years now, the Golden State’s number of homeless residents has been under scrutiny. The issue stole the limelight even more than usual whenContinue Reading
A. MONTES POLITICAL PAPIST COLUMNIST TikTok, that ever-popular video platform and source of the world’s stupidest dances, is currently awash with memes about World War III. Some of them are funny, mostContinue Reading
A. MONTES POLITICAL PAPIST COLUMN If you’ve looked at the news at all recently, you’ve probably seen something about the attempted impeachment of President Trump by some members of theContinue Reading
A. MONTES POLITICAL PAPIST COLUMNIST I grew up watching Disney’s anthropomorphic, animated “Robin Hood” movie, a pure, timeless classic. I used to imagine myself as one of Robin’s Merry Men, living in a beautiful forest, wearing a stylish leather jerkin and green tights and sneakingContinue Reading
A. MONTES POLITICAL PAPIST COLUMNIST When I studied abroad, I travelled to Galway, Ireland, for a couple days with two close friends, staying at a bed-and-breakfast run by an abrasive oldContinue Reading
A. MONTES POLITICAL PAPIST COLUMNIST If you follow any Gen-Z bloggers, Instagram or Tumblr accounts or Twitter profiles, you’ve probably seen complaints about the “rich white men” who run theContinue Reading
A. MONTES POLITICAL PAPIST COLUMNIST Why, hello there! This is the Political Papist, a column about Catholics in politics. If you’re anything like me, you probably think politics is difficult, dishearteningContinue Reading