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July 2021

July 13, 2021

The bishop vs the president

My bishop is at it again. Thomas John Paprocki, bishop of the Diocese of Springfield...

July 07, 2021

A most unselfish way of giving pleasure

Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain New York: HarperCollins, 2017 (First Harper Perennial Edition) 312 pages,...

June 2021

June 30, 2021

There is more to a police procedural than catching bad guys

Line of Duty (2012 – ) Created by Jed Mercurio The more I watch police...

January 2021

January 07, 2021

Blood cries out: the Confederate flag in the U.S. Capitol

Take a good, hard look at the photo that accompanies this article. That flag. Carried...

November 2020

November 21, 2020

Dale Ahlquist is on a mission – sadly, it’s the wrong mission

Joe Biden won. Donald Trump, who once mocked the president-elect as “sleepy Joe…hiding in his...

October 2020

October 13, 2020

Begging—and answering—the question

A few days ago I published a piece in which I explained how a Catholic...

August 2020

August 13, 2020

Begging—and answering—the question

A few days ago I published a piece in which I explained how a Catholic...

August 09, 2020

Listen to the Church, not LifeSite, when casting your vote

LifeSite News, the allegedly Catholic pro-life webpage, wants you to vote Republican this fall; to...

July 2020

July 06, 2020

No time like the present for ‘Stranger Things’

WARNING: Spoilers Stranger Things starts with a top-secret government lab at which an experiment goes awry....

February 2020

February 23, 2020

Fr. Frank Pavone’s Satanic Beatitudes

It is common for Christian conservatives to tout the Ten Commandments as their ideal roadmap...

February 12, 2020

Bishop Thomas John Paprocki

Meet Bishop Thomas John Paprocki, ordinary of the Diocese of Springfield in Illinois. He is...

January 2020

January 27, 2020

God commands us to love

The first batch of beer I ever brewed was in the home of a Muslim....

January 18, 2020

Donald Trump in one day

In the morning, I usually see some item about President Trump that looks like it...

January 17, 2020

Christopher Tolkien, rest in peace

I have just a few quick words about Christopher Tolkien, who died Thursday, aged 95....

December 2019

December 07, 2019

Reflections on the readings for the Second Sunday of Advent

Advent is a season of expectation, of waiting, in hope. The most well-known Advent hymn...

August 2019

August 28, 2019

The deplorable state of Catholic journalism

What follows is neither an endorsement nor a condemnation of Planned Parenthood. That’s not the...

August 16, 2019

Gleams of light

Thursday night, Stephen Colbert sat down with CNN's Anderson Cooper for an hour-long discussion (it...

July 2019

July 13, 2019

Archbishop Chaput, I see you

I’ll give Philadelphia Archbishop Charles Chaput one thing: he knows how to cover his tracks....

May 2019

May 21, 2019

A beautiful film

Tolkien (2019) Directed by Dome Karukoski Written by David Gleeson and Stephen Beresford Rated PG-13 (for...

April 2019

April 30, 2019

Repeal the Second Amendment

I published the below post last May. I am republishing it because Tuesday, April 30...

April 18, 2019

James V. Schall S.J., 1928–2019: rest in peace

One of the great joys of editing Gilbert! for fourteen years was editing James V....

April 15, 2019

“Heaven and earth may pass away, but my words will not pass away.”

Jesus' words, from Matthew 24:35, were what first passed through my mind when I saw...

April 11, 2019

How Daenerys should have invaded Westeros (MAJOR SPOILERS)

Season 8 of Game of Thrones premiers Sunday. The anticipation is enough to make any...

March 2019

March 25, 2019

The link between Nazareth and Mount Doom

Today, we celebrate two events, one fictional and one real. The fictional event is the...

March 18, 2019

The press vs the Presidency: old war, new battles

Robert Mueller’s investigation into Donald Trump’s campaign for president started as a snowball. It is...

March 05, 2019

This Lent, winter is coming

Lent is a dreary time. From Ash Wednesday to the Triduum, we count the days...

March 05, 2019

AOC, climate change, abortion, and me

I woke up Sunday morning to the below comment on Facebook, in response to the...

March 01, 2019

Beware of unqualified people – UPDATED

Updated to add additional information I did not know existed when I published this -...

February 2019

February 12, 2019

The new ‘Tolkien’ biopic: keeping an open mind

Fox Searchlight on Tuesday released the first official trailer from its upcoming film, Tolkien, which hits...

January 2019

January 20, 2019

MAGA at the March for Life — UPDATE

NB: I have updated this post because of new information available today. --SPD Want media...