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January 2017

January 11, 2017

The Communist That Lives With Me Responds: “Your Political Theology is not Radical Enough”

Since this discussion of identity politics began in dialogue with the Leftists, I thought I'd...

July 2016

July 01, 2016

The Weekly Pulp and Platter

Start a tradition with me. Every week I'd like to recommend a book (pulp) and...

April 2016

April 11, 2016

The Radical Reverse Engineering of Pope Francis

"Foolery, sir, does walk about the orb like the sun. It shines everywhere." Pope...

April 11, 2016

The Joy of Love

You ever get that thing where you're asked to review Pope Francis' new exhortation and...

April 04, 2016

Virtual Reality Sucks

NSFW The Internet is weird. It is home, not just to the ability to order...

April 02, 2016

I experienced something and that something was nothing

I'm not trying to be butt about other people's near-death experiences. When I mangle myself...

March 2016

March 30, 2016

The Case for Complicating Sex

My generation’s sitcoms still refer to sex as a fun, healthy, and fundamentally light activity...

March 29, 2016

The Humor of Salvation

The Catholic Church is criticized for sneaking an attitude of "merit" into her followers. We...

February 2016

February 19, 2016

Can a Catholic Feel the Bern?

The question I've been asking myself, watching the 2-year, extra-masturbatory edition of American Idol known...

February 18, 2016

How Paul Simon Reminded Me That Hey, Jesus Is Surprising

I have the misfortune of trying to love philosophy and God at the same time....

February 16, 2016

A Brief Aside On the Broadness of the Heart That Fears Hell

Look, gosh-heckity-darnit, I get the critique: Christianity, by introducing the fear of Hell into her...

February 16, 2016

That Good Ol’, Life-Affirming, Self-Inflicted Violence

I’ve found that, for all the glories of the Church, there are two which almost...

February 11, 2016

Lent in the Age of the Smartphone

I have been listening to NPR segments on the coming revolution in Smart technology. This...

February 05, 2016

Faking It in the Age of Identity

In his article, "The Year We Obsessed About Identity", Wesley Morris predicted that our bright,...

September 2015

September 11, 2015

My Spot on The Vortex

I was featured on Michael Voris' The Vortex yesterday. I'm on at 4:15. Sorry, Michael....

February 2015

February 19, 2015

Worms, foul-smelling liquids, and filthy shreds of cloth

The Christian is hooked on either side and stretched between two disparate statements about his...

June 2014

June 30, 2014

Writing

Son: Why bother with the boring reading, the difficult thinking, the never-ending study and the...

June 21, 2014

Popes Should Resign More Often

There is an tendency amongst many Catholics to view the resignation of Pope Benedict XVI...

June 13, 2014

Notes Regarding Sin, to be Read Sharply and Mockingly to Myself in Times of Desolation

"I cannot pray after so great a sin." And are you too ill to see...

June 11, 2014

Facts, Facts, Facts!

"You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon Facts: nothing else will ever...

May 2014

May 26, 2014

The Difference Between a Hashtag and a Hail Mary

We are more aware of evil than any generation before us. We receive news-stories of...

April 2014

April 30, 2014

Netflix and Good Ol’ American Despair

If freedom is an exploding horizon of possible options and a friendly butt-tap of encouragement...

March 2014

March 22, 2014

Lent is for Everyone

You -- assuming you are a person, not a corporation or a spam-bot -- are...

February 2014

February 10, 2014

To My Readers in Europe

You have better things to do than read my cranial excretions, such as eating Milka...

February 04, 2014

God and gods

It seems apparent to me that, if the atheist wishes to disprove or otherwise snub...

January 2014

January 21, 2014

Coming (Hopefully) Soon…

January 03, 2014

The Harmonium Project

The goal is simple. My friends and I are trying to integrate the impoverished downtown...

December 2013

December 26, 2013

Drawing Stuff on the Pope’s Face

What is really remarkable about Pope Francis is his unremarkable, by-the-books Catholicism -- for his...

December 11, 2013

The Oh Hello’s

There's a band I want to assume things of, oversimplify, and generally deliver as something...

November 2013

November 14, 2013

The Auschwitz Conflation

When I argued that the use of images of aborted people to protest abortion indicates...