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December 2011

December 05, 2011

Bayer Corporation Are Bastards

bastard [bas-terd] 2. Slang. a vicious, despicable, or thoroughly disliked person: Some bastard slashed the tires on my car. Those of you who follow me know I have some...

December 04, 2011

In Which I Occupy Wall Street

Haters gonna hate.

December 04, 2011

Two Lesbians Raised a Baby and This Is What They Got…

"...what's the reason for opposing this again?" says moveon.org, promoting this video in which gay marriage...

November 2011

November 21, 2011

Your Weekly Fix of Catholic Art – Audrey Assad

I know a girl who was abused by a boy she was in a relationship...

November 18, 2011

Walker Percy Interviews Himself

The whole thing is priceless, but have my favorite part: Q: What kind of Catholic...

November 11, 2011

5 Things No One Knows Are Ridiculously Catholic, But Should.

As Catholics, we try not to be smug. We really do. But the world makes...

November 10, 2011

Totally Consecrated

Guess what I'm doing right now? I'll tell you: The Total Consecration To Jesus Christ...

November 09, 2011

Meaningless Art

I have a new hero. He is a janitor at Dortmund’s Museum Ostwall, and he's in...

November 07, 2011

In Case You Needed Another Reason to be Catholic…

...we have an official beer blessing. V. Our help is in the name of the...

November 07, 2011

Occupiers, Wayseers and the Catholic Church

G.K. Chesterton, in his noble goal to make the life of a Catholic blogger unbearably...

November 05, 2011

FUS, Represent!

Gotta love my school. Franciscan Students For Life getting a pro-life flash mob on in...

November 05, 2011

The Wages of Sin

Abstract, spiritual truths have extremely practical, daily effects. For example, the arguably abstract concept that we...

November 04, 2011

Incredible.

Fog in Rio. It's moments like these that blow my mind. Because the average Christian...

October 2011

October 28, 2011

Your Weekly Fix Of Great Catholic Art – Josh Garrels

Convinced as I am that the only way to save the world is by way...

October 26, 2011

Nude Beauty for Porn Addicts

With all due respect - which I understand to be a statement that allows you...

October 24, 2011

Herod the Abortionist

Herod's Slaughter of the Innocents is one of the few ways a man can get...

October 23, 2011

Why Facebook Is The Devil

I was writing fiction, and when I seriously considered describing my character's feeling of anxiety...

October 23, 2011

In Defense of Stupid Conversions (God Exists!)

The New Atheist gets all grumpy about 'stupid' conversions to the faith. Francis Collins -...

October 21, 2011

Beauty Is Objective

Is beauty subjective or objective? Is it a thing defined by us, or a thing...

October 20, 2011

Puritanism, Hedonism, and Nudity

After writing about the naked body I got a colorful variety of responses, some in...

October 16, 2011

The Problem With Christian Radio

I wrote this for another blog, which is becoming a podcast (more on that eventually)...

October 12, 2011

What Steve Jobs Isn’t Remembered For

"You know, there's a porn store for Android. You can download porn, your kids can...

October 10, 2011

The Atheist’s Self Help Blog or How To Save an Ideology While Getting Girls To Like You! Part II Being – Practice What Ye Preacheth

Its an assumption we might as well take for fact, that if one were to...

October 09, 2011

Distraction By Cuteness

Perhaps this is a distraction unique to the solemnly-stodgy liturgical denominations, those in the odd...

October 09, 2011

The Glory of Being Shut Up

"Christ prophesied the whole of Gothic architecture in that hour when nervous and respectable people...

October 04, 2011

Like, Relativism, You Know?

Our language is wedded to our culture, in sickness or in health, for better or...

September 2011

September 26, 2011

Contraception Uber Alles!

I received this message from a friend last night. I'd been following the issue, but...

September 24, 2011

What’s It Like Being Catholic?

I'm often asked this question. And while I am under the blissful delusion that I...

September 23, 2011

God Hates Gays…

...so claims, not only the Westboro Baptist Church member picketing a funeral (may he be...

September 22, 2011

My First Column…

...for Franciscan University's newspaper, The Troubadour. The appalling strength of the abortion industry - in...