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January 2016

January 23, 2016

The Roots of Protecting Life From Conception in the Catholic Enlightenment

The story of the conflict between science and religion during the Enlightenment is mostly false. Catholics...

January 21, 2016

Miracle at Cana: Drinking with the Bible in Hand

Karl Barth is said to have recommended taking "your Bible and newspaper, and reading both."...

January 19, 2016

“René Girard never played the Great Man,” says biographer.

René Girard was an influential theorist, member of the Académie française, professor at Stanford since 1981,...

January 12, 2016

God DOES Play Dice and Cheats?

I bet on completing a PhD in the humanities. Therefore, I am a betting man....

January 07, 2016

The Altar Girl Storm in a Teacup

I’m a former girl altar server. I served for eight years in my parish and...

January 06, 2016

Edith Stein and the Assassination of God’s Epiphany

I forced myself to reflect upon the importance of getting our pictures of God sorted...

January 05, 2016

Do Catholics Worship the Same God as the Americans & Judge Scalia?

I hope Scalia, il Magnifico, lives to be a hundred and ten, and dies on the...

December 2015

December 30, 2015

The One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church’s Porn Problem

It's kinda not what it sounds like. Today (the day I am writing) is December...

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 29, 2015

The Story of the Virgin Birth Runs with the Grain of Christianity

Mary Magdalene would not be a saint if, as Giles Fraser would have it, striving...

December 27, 2015

How Is Sarah Silverman Right About Jesus Being Gender Fluid?

Even though Sarah Silverman is not a theologian, her trolling tweet about the gender fluidity...

December 26, 2015

We are not Only to Become Christians, but Christ!

The close of Advent is not an end but a renewal of the work of...

December 24, 2015

Patheos Catholic’s 2015 in Review

Patheos Catholic is pregnant with futurity as it parts with old favorites and invites exciting...

December 23, 2015

Advent With a Martyr: There Isn’t Great Chaos Between Heaven & Earth

That between heaven and earth there is no great chaos and no great silence or...

December 22, 2015

5 Reasons Why the Jesuits are More Like the First Order than the Jedi Knights

I gave in to the merchandising juggernaut that is Star Wars VII on Saturday. There...

December 16, 2015

Wheaton College Professor Suspended for Expressing Catholic Position on Islam

Some of the best Catholic colleges are Protestant. This is the case in Seattle. Take,...

December 15, 2015

The Cosmos TOP10 Literary Books of 2015

The year comes to a close and I find myself once again pulling my favorite...

December 14, 2015

Politics is Traditional for the Councils of the Church

For the councils of the church, politics is traditional. After Vatican Council II, many people...

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...

December 08, 2015

Benedict XVI’s Theology of Bacon (& Creation)

The environment and Bacon are closely tied in Benedict XVI's theology. The lack of major...

December 07, 2015

Was Vatican 1 Shockingly More Political Than Vatican 2?

Catholic History is stranger than you think. [Léger] spoke to me with excitement about his...

December 03, 2015

The Discovery of God: God IS Dead? Long Live God!

Language periodically wears itself out when speaking about God. But that is not the same as...

December 02, 2015

On Noses and the Incarnation

"For the Son of God became man so that we might become God." --St....

December 01, 2015

Advent and the Pointlessness of God

The helplessness and weakness of the Christ Child should be a scandal to our ears....

November 2015

November 29, 2015

Cosmos: Weakened Edition, 9

What's not weak this week on Cosmos the in Lost. The booklists seem to be...

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...

November 25, 2015

Thanksgiving as Forgiveness

“The duties of each moment are the shadows beneath which hides the divine operation.” ―...

November 24, 2015

Rod Dreher’s Scandal

Rod Dreher has been exceedingly kind in his careful readings of Cosmos the in Lost....

November 10, 2015

4 Remedies for Fundamentalist vs. Atheist Starbucks Red Cup Wars

I hail from Seattle. Seattle is the America's capital city of coffee. I know my...

November 06, 2015

Girard: Islamic Extremism is Symmetrically Related to Western Wealth

Comboxes are usually places of despair that demonstrate the following dictum: Abandon all hope all...