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March 2017

March 27, 2017

Wendell Berry and the Given Life

It's been a very long and anxious couple of weeks. I thought I'd give you a...

March 13, 2017

Is There a Way to Get Beyond Making the Best of a Bad Liturgy?

The following is an exchange I facilitated between Villanova theologian Kevin Hughes and Notre Dame liturgist...

February 2017

February 15, 2017

The Young Pope: The Second Coming of Brideshead Revisited?

In many ways, The Young Pope is the second coming of Brideshead Revisited. In the...

January 2017

January 19, 2017

Why’s it so Hard to Shut the Noise Out?

Is it possible to be quiet and silent on the flight to Egypt? I ask because I...

July 2016

July 26, 2016

How Does Stanley Hauerwas Perform the Faith?

This is a personal reflection on the work of Stanley Hauerwas in celebration of his 76th...

June 2016

June 26, 2016

Atheist Belief is an Homage to God

To the reader of self-hell(p) books, This little book about heaven-help. --Fabrice Hadjadj, The Resurrection Fabrice...

May 2016

May 09, 2016

The Catholic Imagination: A Sophiology Between Scatology and Eschatology

. . . A pure thing, against the sad affairs of earth. Pure, forbidden the...

December 2015

December 29, 2015

Priest from Philippines Should’ve Been Suspended for Singing not Hoverboard

The Filipino priest's liturgical sin had more to do with harmony than locomotion. I...

December 10, 2015

3 Ways Vatican’s ZooTV Exposes Modern Theology’s Weaknesses

The projections of animals and non-Catholic human-animals onto the facade of St. Peter's led to...

November 2015

November 26, 2015

Thanksgiving: An American Celebration of a Deadly Sin?

I'm spiritual but not religious about Thanksgiving. I show up only once a year, go...

October 2015

October 31, 2015

Halloween Special: Catholics for Extreme Metal?

Sean Taylor is a husband and father of one as well as a Ph.D. student...

October 09, 2015

No Bible? Fine. No Liturgy? No Christianity.

For some of you the sentiments of the title for this piece might be as...

August 2015

August 10, 2015

U Mad (Papist) Bro?

Even though he didn't invent it, the Seattle Seahawks Stanford-educated cornerback, Richard Sherman, smartly pwnd...

June 2015

June 09, 2015

Romanticism & Reason: New Inklings Biography Authors Interviewed

========================================================================== Philip and Carol Zaleski are the coauthors of Prayer: A History and The Book of Heaven. The...

June 04, 2015

Get 2 Know a Catholic Publisher: TOP10 Angelico Press Titles

The 20th century's most influential theologian, Hans Urs von Balthasar, once called for a "kneeling...

June 01, 2015

How to Make the Rosary More Inclusive in 3 Easy Steps

One of the great blessings of the rosary is its repetitiveness. This repetitiveness fosters the...

May 2015

May 29, 2015

Pythagoras, Rocks, the Divine, Heidegger: This is Frozen Music

Music has power. And its greatest power is to create a pathway between the human...

March 2015

March 28, 2015

See and Taste the Lord is Good: Ocular Communion as Real Communion

Yesterday's post on the curious practice of ocular communion included a brief citation that Ann...

March 27, 2015

Hand? Mouth? What About the Third Way of Receiving Communion?

There are way too many silly debates on how to take Communion. Being a contrarian...

March 09, 2015

Satan Likes Pure Spirituality, But St. Augustine Prays Over Butts

Last week I introduced you to Fabrice Hadjadj whose Faith of the Demons which is...

February 2015

February 25, 2015

Ida and Avoiding Silence at Any Cost

My initial reflections upon Ida concentrated upon the historical context of the film, about what...

February 20, 2015

Incarnadine: Playful Poetic Sadness on the Edges of Religious Hope

Poetry is meant to be performed out loud, just like the liturgy—the connection between these...

February 05, 2015

Jean-Luc Marion: Does Silencing Love Mean Philosophy is a Misnomer?

The everyday ramifications of reading are a constant preoccupation of mine. I like to believe...

January 2015

January 16, 2015

Beauty, Postmodernism, and Vodka: Gregory Wolfe Interview Preview

Gregory Wolfe has spent half a lifetime saying "Beauty will save the world." Czeslaw Milosz...

December 2014

December 23, 2014

Two Nativities? Can You Divine the Original Christmas Story?

Margaret Barker sure knows how to set up an argument. She goes all out in...

December 19, 2014

Beauty For Truth’s Sake: The Creed’s Amazing Hidden Symmetry Between Son & Spirit

One of the most persistent claims of the Catholic tradition is that truth, goodness, being,...

December 18, 2014

Dare We Hope That All Dogs Go To Heaven?

Dare we hope that all dogs go to heaven? Sure, why not? Though there's no...

December 16, 2014

Ruined by Books: TOP10 Catholic Studies Books

Some time ago I started a series of topical TOP10 lists. I got as far...

December 15, 2014

God Plays the Numbers

Last week's first post on torture (see the more divisive second one here) mentioned Stratford...

September 2014

September 12, 2014

They Were Not Able to Separate the Soul From the Flesh

Finishing Theology of Transformation was one of those bittersweet reading moments: I was happy to...