Drone Synodality, Inflatable Churches, the "Pride Pilgrimage", and "Extraordinary Child Ministers"
The Daily Anathema from Irkutsk Ice Truckers (9/16/25)
The Daily Anathema is a new section of Irkutsk Ice Truckers dedicated to summarizing all our work, sharing with you some of our wilder ideas, and, well, anathematizing a few things along the way.1
Think of this as a table of contents, a daily, err weekly, err… semi-regular look inside my mind and what’s been cooking here at Irkutsk Ice Truckers News, your trusted source for the finest in Catholic satire.
There is a little more political stuff this week. Please let us know if you mind of what you think about these “roundup” columns and what you’d like us to include or leave out.
Things we laughed at
In This House We Believe…
…in the 24 Thomistic theses. Seriously, I actually do want to make one or both of these in real life
Even Drones Are Synodal Now
The 3rd annual “World Meeting on Human Fraternity”, a synodal experience inspired by Pope Francis’ encyclical Fratelli Tutti but sponsored for the last three years by Disney+, Citibank, and ExxonMobil, is open to everyone. Yes, that even includes drones.
“The Liturgical Movement”
Is Fr. James Martin A Secret Rad Trad?
No, one single ad orientem Mass does not a traditionalist make.
Inconsistent…
Miami Church Aesthetics Graphed
Unfortunately, we could not find sede Churches/homes to place on this graph.
Charlotte Diocese Takes Another Step Toward Fulfilling Synodality
What’s next, babies? Robots?
Beware the “Creasters”
You mean Church isn’t a one-time thing?
Dealing With Vatican II in One Image
“it wasn’t dogmatic, it was pastoral…”
Reverse Switzerland
Popesplaining?
Arguing With Orthobros…
“WE AREN’T IN SCHISM WITH MOSCOW, WE’RE JUST NOT IN COMMUNION AND DON’T LIKE THEM NOR LISTEN TO THEM.”
Jihadi to Professional Manager
Abu Mohammad al-Jolani may have once been a terrorist affiliated with al-Qaeda. But it’s ok, he wears a suit now, and he’s an expert when it comes to “renovating” urban environments and “altering” health.
Things we wrote
covers how the James Martin meeting and the 
On the satire front,
covers “Cardinal Arnold Robleche’s” ideas for making the Mass faster.
He also covers the wild possibility that maybe we’ve been getting Fr. James Martin all wrong after photos surfaced of him celebrating Mass ad orientem.
Everett also covered the story of the Vatican hip hop/rock concert and drone show and where things like this might be headed:
also covered the tale of the books that “they” don’t want you to read here…
Things We Like
Medieval Monasteries (Western Only)
How Many of Us Feel This Week
Responding to Scrupulosity
There’s also a sede version of scrupulosity as well.
Things We Anathematize
The “Pride Pilgrimage”
No more needs to be said…
Neutral Term for Heaven
The Inflatable Church
Discovered via Eccles is Saved
The “Church of the Rock” in Helsinki
Is this an IKEA lampshade?
We’re still swamped here at IIT between the work commitments of our chief editor, our serious writing over at Grain of Wheat, and putting out stuff here. But never fear, we have, though release dates will be more sporadic, at latest count, 150 more articles in the pipeline, and we have some larger collaborations still to come!
Thanks for reading Irkutsk Ice Truckers!
The IIT Staff:
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We, of course, can’t officially anathematize as none of our staff are priests or bishops, but we can at least say these things ought to be anathematized.
The only thing I can say about the Church of the Rock is that a rock is more beautiful than that.